With the Nintendo WiiU recently released and the Sony PlayStation 4 and Microsoft Xbox "Durango" announcement on the horizon we all may have to start rethinking our web design tactics again. The WiiU looks like it has modernized it's way of doing web browsing where it works well on the tablet, but how is it on the big screen?

 

Microsoft has been keen on apps lately and has recently added internet explorer finally to the Xbox which makes it another form of web browsing. Now PlayStation 3 has already proven console based web browsing unpopular, but that was because of the approach. we have found it mundane to use a joystick to navigate webpages. The new consoles will obviously use touch and Kinect style technologies which will make the user experience better and people will be more apt to try their web surfing again in this manner.

 

 

 

With newer technologies we might see a re-spark of this. I remember when Nintendo first added the Wii web browser was quite the hit. Everyone was pushing out flash games on giant typeface site. Well of course the new potential browsers we will obviously goal for building canvas style games, the idea we will need to look at is being "TV and Couch" friendly. I know this to well as I am a computer hooked-up to TV kind of guy, and 99% of sites suck on the big screen.

 

We did it for mobile phones, it took developers a little while but they finally got it right. Can we do it again? Well get your framework thinking caps on and prepare to ride the next wave of technology!