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You've all heard this as the slogan for the Game Boy Advance, but some of you still have your reservations over whether you can class the Game Boy Advance as being Console Quality anymore now that we are seing games in a slightly more advanced way on consoles such as the GameCube, X-box and Playstation 2.
So what if it were real? What if you could actually play a game on your favourite console wherever you like? In the future, this could actually be made possible!
yu've all probably heard rumours that Bill Gates's house is all voice operated so that he needn't get out of bed to turn on his bedroom light, or can just say "Fox" to get his favourite channel on American TV. There have been predictions that in our lifetimes, things will start to change like this for some of us.
So how would this work for gaming?
Well, lets take the GameCube for example (you'll see why in a moment). What if you coul amplify the strength of the Wavebird controller's signal so that you could play from a further distance, or put remote sensors all around your house so that they would pick it up? Then, all you'd need is to have a screen in every room of your house, each in a onvienient position, and hey presto, you've got gaming wherever you like in your home. You could have removable flat screens that you take off the walls and reposition as y like, screens built into technology and ornaments, like fridge-freezers, picture frames d even toasters, or you could use a combination of these to produce the illusion that youare actually in the environment contained in the games. Maybe even the first step to holographic entertainment systems (or in Nintendo's case the Nintendo HES). Of courseach screen would need to be able to produce it's own sound if need be, but that gives the option for real-quality surround sound!
So what about having to replace or change games? Well that'd be easy. The X-box already has a Hard Disk Drive, so you can imagine that in the future you'd be able to uploaa of your games, as well as being able to save your progress through each one withouthving to worry about how much data is taken up. Infact, by the time technology like this is implemented, if it ever is, I'm sure we'll be using Hard Disk Drives, or another storg medium which can store terraquads worth of data!
Last but not least, we have to consider handheld gaming. I doubt very much it'll be likei is now. We'll still have some form of Game Boy, but chances are they'll be networked o our homes so that we can carry on with our games whilst on the light-speed train sevce to London, or whilst sitting on a shuttle to Space Colony 5. Ideas, sch as being abe to watch and download movies on a mobile phone will be old news by then though. Curent tecnology can actually do better than what we can buy at the moment, it just has t be released at the right time for companies to make profits from it, after governmens fundung the technological advances have seen their uses as weapons first.
So will we really ever be able to play "Console Quality Gaming....Anywhere"? Well, lets hoe so.
So what if it were real? What if you could actually play a game on your favourite console wherever you like? In the future, this could actually be made possible!
yu've all probably heard rumours that Bill Gates's house is all voice operated so that he needn't get out of bed to turn on his bedroom light, or can just say "Fox" to get his favourite channel on American TV. There have been predictions that in our lifetimes, things will start to change like this for some of us.
So how would this work for gaming?
Well, lets take the GameCube for example (you'll see why in a moment). What if you coul amplify the strength of the Wavebird controller's signal so that you could play from a further distance, or put remote sensors all around your house so that they would pick it up? Then, all you'd need is to have a screen in every room of your house, each in a onvienient position, and hey presto, you've got gaming wherever you like in your home. You could have removable flat screens that you take off the walls and reposition as y like, screens built into technology and ornaments, like fridge-freezers, picture frames d even toasters, or you could use a combination of these to produce the illusion that youare actually in the environment contained in the games. Maybe even the first step to holographic entertainment systems (or in Nintendo's case the Nintendo HES). Of courseach screen would need to be able to produce it's own sound if need be, but that gives the option for real-quality surround sound!
So what about having to replace or change games? Well that'd be easy. The X-box already has a Hard Disk Drive, so you can imagine that in the future you'd be able to uploaa of your games, as well as being able to save your progress through each one withouthving to worry about how much data is taken up. Infact, by the time technology like this is implemented, if it ever is, I'm sure we'll be using Hard Disk Drives, or another storg medium which can store terraquads worth of data!
Last but not least, we have to consider handheld gaming. I doubt very much it'll be likei is now. We'll still have some form of Game Boy, but chances are they'll be networked o our homes so that we can carry on with our games whilst on the light-speed train sevce to London, or whilst sitting on a shuttle to Space Colony 5. Ideas, sch as being abe to watch and download movies on a mobile phone will be old news by then though. Curent tecnology can actually do better than what we can buy at the moment, it just has t be released at the right time for companies to make profits from it, after governmens fundung the technological advances have seen their uses as weapons first.
So will we really ever be able to play "Console Quality Gaming....Anywhere"? Well, lets hoe so.
In all honesty, I wouldn't play on the train either. I only ever play my Game Boy Advance at home, or some other place where I know it's completely safe.
It looks like I'm gonna be four hours waiting in a waiting room at hospital tomorrow (got physiotherapy four hours after another appointment) so I might annoy other patients with Sonic Advance :)
But wouldn't it be great to have the ability to be sat in the back of the car, stick a flat screen to the back of one of the front seats, and just play to your hearts content. That's what I'd like to be able to do!
It looks like I'm gonna be four hours waiting in a waiting room at hospital tomorrow (got physiotherapy four hours after another appointment) so I might annoy other patients with Sonic Advance :)
But wouldn't it be great to have the ability to be sat in the back of the car, stick a flat screen to the back of one of the front seats, and just play to your hearts content. That's what I'd like to be able to do!
I'm scared to play GBA on the train in case it gets nicked...
So I still play at home, making a mockery of the 'play anywhere' remit
So I still play at home, making a mockery of the 'play anywhere' remit
I chose Fox because The Simpsons always joke at how terrible that channel is, despite it being shown on that channel in America. :)
Oh, that would be good. It'd be great carrying your console down a road with a small portable screen in front of you, and playing any game you wish. Wouldn't be too easy for X-Box owners though. :-)
And all that stuff about Bill Gates, very true. But why would Fox Kids be his favourtie channel?
Nice post.
And all that stuff about Bill Gates, very true. But why would Fox Kids be his favourtie channel?
Nice post.
You've all heard this as the slogan for the Game Boy Advance, but some of you still have your reservations over whether you can class the Game Boy Advance as being Console Quality anymore now that we are seing games in a slightly more advanced way on consoles such as the GameCube, X-box and Playstation 2.
So what if it were real? What if you could actually play a game on your favourite console wherever you like? In the future, this could actually be made possible!
yu've all probably heard rumours that Bill Gates's house is all voice operated so that he needn't get out of bed to turn on his bedroom light, or can just say "Fox" to get his favourite channel on American TV. There have been predictions that in our lifetimes, things will start to change like this for some of us.
So how would this work for gaming?
Well, lets take the GameCube for example (you'll see why in a moment). What if you coul amplify the strength of the Wavebird controller's signal so that you could play from a further distance, or put remote sensors all around your house so that they would pick it up? Then, all you'd need is to have a screen in every room of your house, each in a onvienient position, and hey presto, you've got gaming wherever you like in your home. You could have removable flat screens that you take off the walls and reposition as y like, screens built into technology and ornaments, like fridge-freezers, picture frames d even toasters, or you could use a combination of these to produce the illusion that youare actually in the environment contained in the games. Maybe even the first step to holographic entertainment systems (or in Nintendo's case the Nintendo HES). Of courseach screen would need to be able to produce it's own sound if need be, but that gives the option for real-quality surround sound!
So what about having to replace or change games? Well that'd be easy. The X-box already has a Hard Disk Drive, so you can imagine that in the future you'd be able to uploaa of your games, as well as being able to save your progress through each one withouthving to worry about how much data is taken up. Infact, by the time technology like this is implemented, if it ever is, I'm sure we'll be using Hard Disk Drives, or another storg medium which can store terraquads worth of data!
Last but not least, we have to consider handheld gaming. I doubt very much it'll be likei is now. We'll still have some form of Game Boy, but chances are they'll be networked o our homes so that we can carry on with our games whilst on the light-speed train sevce to London, or whilst sitting on a shuttle to Space Colony 5. Ideas, sch as being abe to watch and download movies on a mobile phone will be old news by then though. Curent tecnology can actually do better than what we can buy at the moment, it just has t be released at the right time for companies to make profits from it, after governmens fundung the technological advances have seen their uses as weapons first.
So will we really ever be able to play "Console Quality Gaming....Anywhere"? Well, lets hoe so.
So what if it were real? What if you could actually play a game on your favourite console wherever you like? In the future, this could actually be made possible!
yu've all probably heard rumours that Bill Gates's house is all voice operated so that he needn't get out of bed to turn on his bedroom light, or can just say "Fox" to get his favourite channel on American TV. There have been predictions that in our lifetimes, things will start to change like this for some of us.
So how would this work for gaming?
Well, lets take the GameCube for example (you'll see why in a moment). What if you coul amplify the strength of the Wavebird controller's signal so that you could play from a further distance, or put remote sensors all around your house so that they would pick it up? Then, all you'd need is to have a screen in every room of your house, each in a onvienient position, and hey presto, you've got gaming wherever you like in your home. You could have removable flat screens that you take off the walls and reposition as y like, screens built into technology and ornaments, like fridge-freezers, picture frames d even toasters, or you could use a combination of these to produce the illusion that youare actually in the environment contained in the games. Maybe even the first step to holographic entertainment systems (or in Nintendo's case the Nintendo HES). Of courseach screen would need to be able to produce it's own sound if need be, but that gives the option for real-quality surround sound!
So what about having to replace or change games? Well that'd be easy. The X-box already has a Hard Disk Drive, so you can imagine that in the future you'd be able to uploaa of your games, as well as being able to save your progress through each one withouthving to worry about how much data is taken up. Infact, by the time technology like this is implemented, if it ever is, I'm sure we'll be using Hard Disk Drives, or another storg medium which can store terraquads worth of data!
Last but not least, we have to consider handheld gaming. I doubt very much it'll be likei is now. We'll still have some form of Game Boy, but chances are they'll be networked o our homes so that we can carry on with our games whilst on the light-speed train sevce to London, or whilst sitting on a shuttle to Space Colony 5. Ideas, sch as being abe to watch and download movies on a mobile phone will be old news by then though. Curent tecnology can actually do better than what we can buy at the moment, it just has t be released at the right time for companies to make profits from it, after governmens fundung the technological advances have seen their uses as weapons first.
So will we really ever be able to play "Console Quality Gaming....Anywhere"? Well, lets hoe so.