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OK, Future of Gaming. Who knows? If my crystal ball was working I'd tell you, but it's being fixed at the moment. So, like the rest of you, I'll hazard a guess or two. Lets look at the facts:
Consoles:- ZX81, Spectrum, Commodore, Atari, NES, SNES, Megadrive, Playstation, Saturn, N64, now PS2 (Not necessarily in historical order). No real pattern in the naming of consoles, and the trend will continue with perhaps the exception of the PS, PS2, PS3? So historians will like Sony for that at least. Makes it easy to remember which one came first.
Games:- Too many to list, started with Life sims, then text based adventures based on Tolkien, then arcades took off (Space Invaders, Pong, PacMan et al.) Now it seems that only imagination and money are the barriers to creating a good game. So anything is possible in the future. That is a good thing.
Gamers:- Funny trend this, started with computer geeks (20-30 years old), then hit the teens and lower in the mid 80s, and now the older gamers are being enticed back to the consoles with retro games reminding them of their youth. Again Sony have had a lot of impact here by placing PSX's in nightclubs and trendy advertising. We even have a few silver-haired gamers amongst us now. But for me, gaming's in your blood, so anyone can be a gamer, they just have to enjoy being competitive. So no changes due there, gamers will become more widespread, I think, but no change in demographics due.
Games Industry:- Now a multi-BILLION $ market, we'll see more and more of the big corporations stepping in to make a buck. This is a bad thing. Quick bucks are not good for games development, which nowadays need a few years of good planning, preparation, production and so on to produce what gamers really want to see, a good game. So the market place could get flooded with pap for a while, but then sales will drop off and maybe the developers can get back a bit more control and start producing new games again.
Games Market:- Very competitive, you need great determination to succeed where many others are now failing. But for gamers it's a blessing as we can buy games from anywhere anytime, and more and more recently any price with the internet making the market fiercely competitive. So that's good. I hope that will continue. No crystal ball though, so that's another guess.
Summary:- For gamers it's better now than it has ever been, we have choice, we have quality, we have very playable games, astounding speed and graphics, great plots and RPG's, ergonomic peripherals, and we are becoming recognised more and more as a mainstream part of society, not the geeks and nerds we used to be in the early 80's. So make the most of it. You never know, it may not last forever.
Consoles:- ZX81, Spectrum, Commodore, Atari, NES, SNES, Megadrive, Playstation, Saturn, N64, now PS2 (Not necessarily in historical order). No real pattern in the naming of consoles, and the trend will continue with perhaps the exception of the PS, PS2, PS3? So historians will like Sony for that at least. Makes it easy to remember which one came first.
Games:- Too many to list, started with Life sims, then text based adventures based on Tolkien, then arcades took off (Space Invaders, Pong, PacMan et al.) Now it seems that only imagination and money are the barriers to creating a good game. So anything is possible in the future. That is a good thing.
Gamers:- Funny trend this, started with computer geeks (20-30 years old), then hit the teens and lower in the mid 80s, and now the older gamers are being enticed back to the consoles with retro games reminding them of their youth. Again Sony have had a lot of impact here by placing PSX's in nightclubs and trendy advertising. We even have a few silver-haired gamers amongst us now. But for me, gaming's in your blood, so anyone can be a gamer, they just have to enjoy being competitive. So no changes due there, gamers will become more widespread, I think, but no change in demographics due.
Games Industry:- Now a multi-BILLION $ market, we'll see more and more of the big corporations stepping in to make a buck. This is a bad thing. Quick bucks are not good for games development, which nowadays need a few years of good planning, preparation, production and so on to produce what gamers really want to see, a good game. So the market place could get flooded with pap for a while, but then sales will drop off and maybe the developers can get back a bit more control and start producing new games again.
Games Market:- Very competitive, you need great determination to succeed where many others are now failing. But for gamers it's a blessing as we can buy games from anywhere anytime, and more and more recently any price with the internet making the market fiercely competitive. So that's good. I hope that will continue. No crystal ball though, so that's another guess.
Summary:- For gamers it's better now than it has ever been, we have choice, we have quality, we have very playable games, astounding speed and graphics, great plots and RPG's, ergonomic peripherals, and we are becoming recognised more and more as a mainstream part of society, not the geeks and nerds we used to be in the early 80's. So make the most of it. You never know, it may not last forever.
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OK, Future of Gaming. Who knows? If my crystal ball was working I'd tell you, but it's being fixed at the moment. So, like the rest of you, I'll hazard a guess or two. Lets look at the facts:
Consoles:- ZX81, Spectrum, Commodore, Atari, NES, SNES, Megadrive, Playstation, Saturn, N64, now PS2 (Not necessarily in historical order). No real pattern in the naming of consoles, and the trend will continue with perhaps the exception of the PS, PS2, PS3? So historians will like Sony for that at least. Makes it easy to remember which one came first.
Games:- Too many to list, started with Life sims, then text based adventures based on Tolkien, then arcades took off (Space Invaders, Pong, PacMan et al.) Now it seems that only imagination and money are the barriers to creating a good game. So anything is possible in the future. That is a good thing.
Gamers:- Funny trend this, started with computer geeks (20-30 years old), then hit the teens and lower in the mid 80s, and now the older gamers are being enticed back to the consoles with retro games reminding them of their youth. Again Sony have had a lot of impact here by placing PSX's in nightclubs and trendy advertising. We even have a few silver-haired gamers amongst us now. But for me, gaming's in your blood, so anyone can be a gamer, they just have to enjoy being competitive. So no changes due there, gamers will become more widespread, I think, but no change in demographics due.
Games Industry:- Now a multi-BILLION $ market, we'll see more and more of the big corporations stepping in to make a buck. This is a bad thing. Quick bucks are not good for games development, which nowadays need a few years of good planning, preparation, production and so on to produce what gamers really want to see, a good game. So the market place could get flooded with pap for a while, but then sales will drop off and maybe the developers can get back a bit more control and start producing new games again.
Games Market:- Very competitive, you need great determination to succeed where many others are now failing. But for gamers it's a blessing as we can buy games from anywhere anytime, and more and more recently any price with the internet making the market fiercely competitive. So that's good. I hope that will continue. No crystal ball though, so that's another guess.
Summary:- For gamers it's better now than it has ever been, we have choice, we have quality, we have very playable games, astounding speed and graphics, great plots and RPG's, ergonomic peripherals, and we are becoming recognised more and more as a mainstream part of society, not the geeks and nerds we used to be in the early 80's. So make the most of it. You never know, it may not last forever.
Consoles:- ZX81, Spectrum, Commodore, Atari, NES, SNES, Megadrive, Playstation, Saturn, N64, now PS2 (Not necessarily in historical order). No real pattern in the naming of consoles, and the trend will continue with perhaps the exception of the PS, PS2, PS3? So historians will like Sony for that at least. Makes it easy to remember which one came first.
Games:- Too many to list, started with Life sims, then text based adventures based on Tolkien, then arcades took off (Space Invaders, Pong, PacMan et al.) Now it seems that only imagination and money are the barriers to creating a good game. So anything is possible in the future. That is a good thing.
Gamers:- Funny trend this, started with computer geeks (20-30 years old), then hit the teens and lower in the mid 80s, and now the older gamers are being enticed back to the consoles with retro games reminding them of their youth. Again Sony have had a lot of impact here by placing PSX's in nightclubs and trendy advertising. We even have a few silver-haired gamers amongst us now. But for me, gaming's in your blood, so anyone can be a gamer, they just have to enjoy being competitive. So no changes due there, gamers will become more widespread, I think, but no change in demographics due.
Games Industry:- Now a multi-BILLION $ market, we'll see more and more of the big corporations stepping in to make a buck. This is a bad thing. Quick bucks are not good for games development, which nowadays need a few years of good planning, preparation, production and so on to produce what gamers really want to see, a good game. So the market place could get flooded with pap for a while, but then sales will drop off and maybe the developers can get back a bit more control and start producing new games again.
Games Market:- Very competitive, you need great determination to succeed where many others are now failing. But for gamers it's a blessing as we can buy games from anywhere anytime, and more and more recently any price with the internet making the market fiercely competitive. So that's good. I hope that will continue. No crystal ball though, so that's another guess.
Summary:- For gamers it's better now than it has ever been, we have choice, we have quality, we have very playable games, astounding speed and graphics, great plots and RPG's, ergonomic peripherals, and we are becoming recognised more and more as a mainstream part of society, not the geeks and nerds we used to be in the early 80's. So make the most of it. You never know, it may not last forever.