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Okay, okay, I know I'm still a newbie, so all you regulars please forgive me for posting this topic which has probably been done before, albeit before my time on this site.
There is a lot of talk about PS2, X-Box, GBA, GC, and even some limited stuff on virtual reality on this group. What I haven't seen are discussions about the long term future of gaming.
Obviously there will be the next generation of consoles, then another, then another, but where will it all lead?
VR will be here in some form or another in the future, but probably not to the level seen in Red Dwarf (where the whole programme turned out to be a computer game, with characters under mind control).
Games with TV/Film quality graphics will undoubtedly make an appearance, as to will games controlled by your complete bodily movement.
Progress, in the home at least, is slow - cost is obviously a major factor, but are there other reasons? Is VR safe? will it lead to people spending days (or longer) in a virtual world?
People are obviously happy generally with what is available at present, or they wouldn't buy it. Could this demand be slowing developers progress, knowing that they can make the money without pushing capabilities.
So, the reason for this post is - what do others want to see in the long term future of gaming and what are the barriers?
Sorry to all the regulars who have probably heard all this before, but me along with other newbies haven't all had the opportunity to discuss something along these lines and are getting a bit bored with the continual console wars discussions.
Sorry again, I've had a few drinks and got a bit too deep.
There is a lot of talk about PS2, X-Box, GBA, GC, and even some limited stuff on virtual reality on this group. What I haven't seen are discussions about the long term future of gaming.
Obviously there will be the next generation of consoles, then another, then another, but where will it all lead?
VR will be here in some form or another in the future, but probably not to the level seen in Red Dwarf (where the whole programme turned out to be a computer game, with characters under mind control).
Games with TV/Film quality graphics will undoubtedly make an appearance, as to will games controlled by your complete bodily movement.
Progress, in the home at least, is slow - cost is obviously a major factor, but are there other reasons? Is VR safe? will it lead to people spending days (or longer) in a virtual world?
People are obviously happy generally with what is available at present, or they wouldn't buy it. Could this demand be slowing developers progress, knowing that they can make the money without pushing capabilities.
So, the reason for this post is - what do others want to see in the long term future of gaming and what are the barriers?
Sorry to all the regulars who have probably heard all this before, but me along with other newbies haven't all had the opportunity to discuss something along these lines and are getting a bit bored with the continual console wars discussions.
Sorry again, I've had a few drinks and got a bit too deep.
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I kinda hope that the future of gaming will be a lot like the past of gaming. It may just be nostalgia, but I would really prefer it that way.
I mean in the sense of just having loads of lovely playable games. Skool Daze, Ghostbusters, Uridion, loads of games that sucked up my childhood.
Cheap too. That's something at least... gaming is either going to become really cheap, or really expensive. I do hope it will become cheap... considering the amount of time spent on making the production costs as low as possible... Microsoft, for example, are funding games developments themselves... which not only show how low they'll go to get a game, but shows how stupid they are, as the developers are going to Nintendo and Sony offering to port their games over for free, as all expenses are covered by the big $.
Not much more to say really... out of ideas for now.
I mean in the sense of just having loads of lovely playable games. Skool Daze, Ghostbusters, Uridion, loads of games that sucked up my childhood.
Cheap too. That's something at least... gaming is either going to become really cheap, or really expensive. I do hope it will become cheap... considering the amount of time spent on making the production costs as low as possible... Microsoft, for example, are funding games developments themselves... which not only show how low they'll go to get a game, but shows how stupid they are, as the developers are going to Nintendo and Sony offering to port their games over for free, as all expenses are covered by the big $.
Not much more to say really... out of ideas for now.
Heh, I wrote something a while ago about TV gaming.
I have to say, this was a pretty decent topic. Well done PieroGas.
I have to say, this was a pretty decent topic. Well done PieroGas.
My quest this week is to seek out and respond to topics that have had no response, like this one, which is actually quite good but seemed to get overlooked.
There's a VERY good argument here that developers are just raking in the cash and not pushing or asking for the boundaries of hardware technology in gaming to be pushed out further.
Personally, I think we'll be seeing console based gaming for a good few years yet, I'll hazard a decade before we see anything completely radical.
Perhaps with TV's getting more and more internet input, we'll see online gaming shift from console/PC to TV, for example, to play Unreal Tournament on your TV in the future, you don't need software, or hardware, you just flick onto channel 14998 and grab your peripheral be it headset and dataglove, keyboard, mouse, lightgun or whatever and blast away.
For this to work you'd need big cooperation between Sky/Cable companies and game developers. We already have very limited games like Tetris, Bubble Bobble etc on Sky's Open service, so it won't be long before we see a 3D all-action shooter or a massive RPG there as well.
There's a VERY good argument here that developers are just raking in the cash and not pushing or asking for the boundaries of hardware technology in gaming to be pushed out further.
Personally, I think we'll be seeing console based gaming for a good few years yet, I'll hazard a decade before we see anything completely radical.
Perhaps with TV's getting more and more internet input, we'll see online gaming shift from console/PC to TV, for example, to play Unreal Tournament on your TV in the future, you don't need software, or hardware, you just flick onto channel 14998 and grab your peripheral be it headset and dataglove, keyboard, mouse, lightgun or whatever and blast away.
For this to work you'd need big cooperation between Sky/Cable companies and game developers. We already have very limited games like Tetris, Bubble Bobble etc on Sky's Open service, so it won't be long before we see a 3D all-action shooter or a massive RPG there as well.
Okay, okay, I know I'm still a newbie, so all you regulars please forgive me for posting this topic which has probably been done before, albeit before my time on this site.
There is a lot of talk about PS2, X-Box, GBA, GC, and even some limited stuff on virtual reality on this group. What I haven't seen are discussions about the long term future of gaming.
Obviously there will be the next generation of consoles, then another, then another, but where will it all lead?
VR will be here in some form or another in the future, but probably not to the level seen in Red Dwarf (where the whole programme turned out to be a computer game, with characters under mind control).
Games with TV/Film quality graphics will undoubtedly make an appearance, as to will games controlled by your complete bodily movement.
Progress, in the home at least, is slow - cost is obviously a major factor, but are there other reasons? Is VR safe? will it lead to people spending days (or longer) in a virtual world?
People are obviously happy generally with what is available at present, or they wouldn't buy it. Could this demand be slowing developers progress, knowing that they can make the money without pushing capabilities.
So, the reason for this post is - what do others want to see in the long term future of gaming and what are the barriers?
Sorry to all the regulars who have probably heard all this before, but me along with other newbies haven't all had the opportunity to discuss something along these lines and are getting a bit bored with the continual console wars discussions.
Sorry again, I've had a few drinks and got a bit too deep.
There is a lot of talk about PS2, X-Box, GBA, GC, and even some limited stuff on virtual reality on this group. What I haven't seen are discussions about the long term future of gaming.
Obviously there will be the next generation of consoles, then another, then another, but where will it all lead?
VR will be here in some form or another in the future, but probably not to the level seen in Red Dwarf (where the whole programme turned out to be a computer game, with characters under mind control).
Games with TV/Film quality graphics will undoubtedly make an appearance, as to will games controlled by your complete bodily movement.
Progress, in the home at least, is slow - cost is obviously a major factor, but are there other reasons? Is VR safe? will it lead to people spending days (or longer) in a virtual world?
People are obviously happy generally with what is available at present, or they wouldn't buy it. Could this demand be slowing developers progress, knowing that they can make the money without pushing capabilities.
So, the reason for this post is - what do others want to see in the long term future of gaming and what are the barriers?
Sorry to all the regulars who have probably heard all this before, but me along with other newbies haven't all had the opportunity to discuss something along these lines and are getting a bit bored with the continual console wars discussions.
Sorry again, I've had a few drinks and got a bit too deep.
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