Anonymous asked: Where do you think gaming as an industry is going? Now I'm not talking about systems shown at E3 (Xbox 360 slim? Looks like a deformed wii, imho.), I'm talking maybe 10, 20 years down the road. You envisioning any major jumps in technology? I, personally, am not really into the 3D TV/Gaming idea, but I suppose a transition into that is more or less inevitable, its just a question of how far down the road. Maybe more into motion sensitive games? Anyways, just wanted to know what your thoughts are.
10 or 20 years? Damn that’s a long time. I wish I could answer that question my friend. I really wish that I could look into the future and see what we would have! But let me give you a contrast picture from the last 20 year jump.
http://img684.imageshack.us/img684/8643/contrast.png
So you can probably guess that at the time tetris was released they had no idea that they would have 3D games where you could see every bullet hole, every blade of grass, have surround sound, etc.
They probably thought that graphics would just keep improving, and that those little falling blocks would look incredibly kick ass (which actually has happened, but so much more happened as well.). Obviously, the types of game we see today will probably be played them with perfected graphics, which are 3D without needing glasses, and playing them with our minds (no joke it’s called a Neural Impulse Actuator, they already work really well.). But because of breakthrough games and technologies there is no way to tell what else will be out there. For instance no one had even so much as thought for a split second about 3D gaming. Suddenly BAM! DOOM comes out and everyone wants in on the 3D stuff! So the games we have today will be perfected, but because of breakthroughs, you can’t make an accurate prediction of the rest of the market.
