Gutenberg is going to be the new editor for WordPress. Something I was not aware of until I was lurking some at articles archives while killing some time.

While I am still kind of new in the sense of editing for this platform, I had known the WYSIWYG editors for the web for quite some time. Back in the day, using them even at Drupal was necessary to add content quite quickly.

WordPress right now comes bundled with TinyMCE, what does an excellent work already even if it shows some age.

The team aims to get a much more modern editor that is more flexible and eventually more feature rich.

Gutenberg on the run

You can give a peek at the editor in action here, and even try and make some stuff with it. Right now, it does not offer a lot of features as it is still under heavy development. But it is getting a lot of bugs fixes constantly.

While I was messing with it some, I was thinking how much it looks like to some of the modern visual editors. Especially in the sense of making stuff easy for the one creating content.

Competence or Just an Update?

There out we have stuff like Divi, SiteOrigin and Visual Composer. All of them aimed to easily create outstanding content for «pages» into WordPress.

Some of them can be used to build regular posts. But I do not think it is effective to use them for regular blogging.

Of course, while using Gutenberg for a few minutes… it was clear that it is way more easy to create content with it, than with TinyMCE. It can potentially create a competence against visual composers.

This is because it can offer much more freedom. But for now, it still lacks the feature to add columns.

Just go there and tame the beast

Hope it is not a hard task

Of course, the team behind the development of Gutenberg know that making such radical changes to the editor may be a catastrophic choice. They may leave a segment with the ability to create rich content.

Yet, developing software is about to take risks and aim to make things better for everyone. To always improve and find new and better solutions.

This risk can totally pay off eventually.

But so far, I do not see this specific piece of software making its debut on WordPress 4.8, to be released June 8. Or at least I see a kind of transition time between TinyMCE and Gutenberg.

Time will tell when we can see it in a production environment. But I would really like to see it soon enough, with a bunch more of features.

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Projected Price

Some sources say that the price of the console will range from $500 to $700, or maybe more. If so, it’s going to be really very expensive. Probably because it is aimed at a different niche this time.

For example, the Switch here was released here at a tag price of USD$500. This for a handheld console that may work as a static one. Already more expensive than the PS4.

Could be that the price was high because of it being new and so on. But that was only for the console, no games or another plus included.

But some sources have pointed out that maybe the specs and price are because Microsoft is aiming to a different market than Sony has with the PS4. They could be targeting those that want cutting edge technology.

That for sure might make a lot of sense.

Console Niches

For one side, Nintendo has sure had success with the Switch and its targeting campaign. They aim especially to the segment they are really strong: Portable Consoles.

The only two that seemed to be competing for the same segment were Sony and Microsoft, while both alternatives were quite different in key points.

But we shall see what happens with the Xbox. Moving to the «premium» segment seems a bit risky… but it may be a good alternative to those wanting Virtual Reality and other features that are still not fully present in the day-to-day gaming experiences.

They are aiming to get 1 million sales during the Q4 2017, when it is expected to be released.

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