Dough - Series 2: Game Consoles

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<p>Game consoles have come a long way since the 1970s but could their days now be numbered?</p><p>The entrepreneur, Sam White, returns with a new series of Dough - the BBC Radio 4 show which looks at the business behind profitable everyday products and where the smart money might take them next. </p><p>In each episode, Sam, and the futurist, Tom Cheesewright, are joined by product manufacturers and industry experts whose inside knowledge gives a new appreciation for the everyday things that we often take for granted. </p><p>Together they look back on a product’s earliest (sometimes ridiculous!) iterations, discuss how a product has evolved and the trends which have driven its profitability. </p><p>In this episode on video game consoles, the pair hear from expert guests including:</p><p>Seamus Blackley - the original creator of Microsoft's Xbox</p><p>Keza MacDonald - video games editor at the Guardian</p><p>James McWhirter - a senior analyst specialising in video games for the research firm, Omdia. </p><p>They trade opinions on the game console's 'game-changing' innovations and its most pointless, or least effective, ones too, before Tom steps in, drawing on his expertise as a futurist, to imagine where consoles might end up in the decades to come. </p><p>Dough is produced by Jon Douglas and is a BBC Audio North production for BBC Radio 4 and BBC Sounds.</p><p>Sliced Bread returns for a new batch of investigations in the spring when Greg Foot will investigate more of the latest so-called wonder products to find out whether they really are the best thing since sliced bread.</p><p>In the meantime, Dough is available in the Sliced Bread feed on BBC Sounds</p>