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The year: 2001. This is the year we should be living in domes on the moon, yet we still live on Earth. No one lives on any exotic planets and there are no robots taking over the human race. Though people have said they have seen them, UFOs are part of our imagination. But where does the gaming world go from here. Games consoles are becoming more powerful and games are becoming more and more realistic. In 10 years time, will we be wearing virtual reality goggles for our gaming entertainment or will the gaming industry become so competitive that games companies will become bankrupt? Will in game visuals become so realistic that they will be as good as real life itself? Will Sega ever learn from its mistakes? Will Sony still be able to sell crap by the bucketloads? Will Nintendo pump out more great games? It is mind boggling to think what will happen to the gaming world in the next 10, 20, 50 years. Already in about 20 years games have gone from simple bat and ball games to realistic worlds that are there to be explored and played in. One thing I can say for sure is that what ever happens there are some exciting things for gamers to look forward to. Maybe someone will reply to this message at the beginning of the next millenium and answer my above questions. A new language may have been created and this person may be replying by pressing on a keyboard the size of a thumbnail with a giant tentacle. Who knows what the future has in store, lets just hope it doesn't include those annoying pokemon!
I think I got a bit carried away....
The year: 2011. This is the year we should be living in domes on the moon, yet we still live on Earth. No one lives on any exotic planets (though we have sent Keith Chegwin to Mars) and there are no robots taking over the human race (Al Gore notwithstanding). But where is the gaming world now?
Back in the early 2000's, Sony lost it's grip on the gaming world, after Bill Gates' subliminal messages in Windows were discovered too late. It was months before most people discovered the PS2 was not, in fact, a radiator. This ruined Sony's console and put them out of competition for a while. Sega's Dreamcast did well and proved a great last console for them, though it ran out of steam before the X-box and GameCube were released. X-box dominated in America, after microsoft bundled x-box games free with all registered copies of windows. This brought Microsoft under more legal pressure though, and the controversy left Nintendo with a free run in Japan and Europe.
Next came the age of VR headset-enabled consoles. Sony got theirs out first in the fall of 2003, dubbed the "Sony Visionary". The only major drawback with this, was the tendancy for users to walk into walls whilst immersed in a game. The next release was a big suprise. The Panasonic "StarSeeker" (released autumn 2005) played in 3D, runnning only on holographic-projection TV's which had only just appeared on the market. Sadly this invention was too far before it's time and the costs put many off.
Nintendo's next console, the "FunMaker" appeared in early 2006, with "Mario Birthday" as the major title available on release. Critic's claimd that Nintendo were targeting at too young an audience, until people completed the advanced mode of this game - which enabled a semi-pornographic bloodbath mode. The media came down heavily on this, and thousands of housewives complained that thier children kept asking why no scantily-clad females jumped out of their birthday cakes to suprise them....
Tony Blair, now retired, showed his understanding of the common man when his new software conpany released it's first title - Minister: Call To Power
Despite rave reviews, the game never really sold.
It almost looked like Nintendo had the market closed for good, when Microsoft and Sony teamed up in 2008 to release the "Addiction Entity". With release titles such as "Tekken: The Final Outcry (part 6)" and "Tomb Raider 27: Honestly This One Has The Nude Cheat In" to name but two, this edged the market back to 50/50.
Now we await the next generation of consoles. Who will win?
Will it be Clive Sinclair's Spectrun GameZone (the most technically advanced of the bunch), Nintendo's DestinySeeker, or Sony and Microsoft's new Z-Polygon?
Back in the early 2000's, Sony lost it's grip on the gaming world, after Bill Gates' subliminal messages in Windows were discovered too late. It was months before most people discovered the PS2 was not, in fact, a radiator. This ruined Sony's console and put them out of competition for a while. Sega's Dreamcast did well and proved a great last console for them, though it ran out of steam before the X-box and GameCube were released. X-box dominated in America, after microsoft bundled x-box games free with all registered copies of windows. This brought Microsoft under more legal pressure though, and the controversy left Nintendo with a free run in Japan and Europe.
Next came the age of VR headset-enabled consoles. Sony got theirs out first in the fall of 2003, dubbed the "Sony Visionary". The only major drawback with this, was the tendancy for users to walk into walls whilst immersed in a game. The next release was a big suprise. The Panasonic "StarSeeker" (released autumn 2005) played in 3D, runnning only on holographic-projection TV's which had only just appeared on the market. Sadly this invention was too far before it's time and the costs put many off.
Nintendo's next console, the "FunMaker" appeared in early 2006, with "Mario Birthday" as the major title available on release. Critic's claimd that Nintendo were targeting at too young an audience, until people completed the advanced mode of this game - which enabled a semi-pornographic bloodbath mode. The media came down heavily on this, and thousands of housewives complained that thier children kept asking why no scantily-clad females jumped out of their birthday cakes to suprise them....
Tony Blair, now retired, showed his understanding of the common man when his new software conpany released it's first title - Minister: Call To Power
Despite rave reviews, the game never really sold.
It almost looked like Nintendo had the market closed for good, when Microsoft and Sony teamed up in 2008 to release the "Addiction Entity". With release titles such as "Tekken: The Final Outcry (part 6)" and "Tomb Raider 27: Honestly This One Has The Nude Cheat In" to name but two, this edged the market back to 50/50.
Now we await the next generation of consoles. Who will win?
Will it be Clive Sinclair's Spectrun GameZone (the most technically advanced of the bunch), Nintendo's DestinySeeker, or Sony and Microsoft's new Z-Polygon?
Let's just hope you don't come on and comment on a great game!
The year: 2001. This is the year we should be living in domes on the moon, yet we still live on Earth. No one lives on any exotic planets and there are no robots taking over the human race. Though people have said they have seen them, UFOs are part of our imagination. But where does the gaming world go from here. Games consoles are becoming more powerful and games are becoming more and more realistic. In 10 years time, will we be wearing virtual reality goggles for our gaming entertainment or will the gaming industry become so competitive that games companies will become bankrupt? Will in game visuals become so realistic that they will be as good as real life itself? Will Sega ever learn from its mistakes? Will Sony still be able to sell crap by the bucketloads? Will Nintendo pump out more great games? It is mind boggling to think what will happen to the gaming world in the next 10, 20, 50 years. Already in about 20 years games have gone from simple bat and ball games to realistic worlds that are there to be explored and played in. One thing I can say for sure is that what ever happens there are some exciting things for gamers to look forward to. Maybe someone will reply to this message at the beginning of the next millenium and answer my above questions. A new language may have been created and this person may be replying by pressing on a keyboard the size of a thumbnail with a giant tentacle. Who knows what the future has in store, lets just hope it doesn't include those annoying pokemon!