I've been thinking allot about the upcoming consoles. Not the ones right after these current ones, but the ones after that, and the ones after that.
Graphics can get better, that's a given. But what happens when shit's exactly like real life? When I walked into a Gamestop at the beginning of this generations life cycle, I stopped and played a round of Fight Night 3. That game was the best thing I had ever seen in my entire fucking life. It was totally realistic, you really actually felt like you were inside the game. A few years later I played Motorstorm on an HDTV for the first time and relived all those feelings of amazement and astonishment.
Like I said, games can get prettier and prettier but pretty soon we will hit a wall. People will get bored of the same old thing and Nintendo or whoever will have to reinvent the d-pad. This reminds me of when the Wii was first announced. I tossed and turned in my sleep in anticipation waiting for Nintendo to release those first, precious photos of the Wiimote and nunchuk.
And when those screens were finally released I was so fascinated by it, I couldn't get it out of my head. The thought of how awesome Wii sports would be, swinging my beloved Master Sword with a flick of my wrist. But sadly, when I finally slid Twilight Princess into that little black slot, I wanted to slit my fucking wrists. I was so dissapointed by what my "Ocarina of Time 2" was I didn't even finish the game.
But less Wii fappery and back to the issue at hand. What will future video games be. I really cannot wait to see where the video game industry will go. Will games go back to their roots? Classic, fun, and rather simplistic? Or maybe something that I cannot even begin to comprehend. I don't have a clue, I just hope that it's fun.
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Me personally, I would like to see the Holodeck from Star Trek: TNG come to life that would rule to me.
If the mayans were wrong about the end of the world n' such.
Emo.
And hopefully, there will be one console format OS so the "console wars" will be pretty much over.
@DE BLOO: if the world doesn't end in 2012, the technological age certainly might.. read this http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20127001.300-space-storm-alert-90-seconds-from-catastrophe.html?full=true
Whoa, now I'm scared.
@Hydro: My thoughts exactly.
Also, is it bad that I desperately want the PS7 to look exactly like it does in the old PS2 commercials, even though it would be horribly dangerous?
doesnt light take 2 billion years to reach earth?
If so we have been fucked since the very beginning.
Sounds like if you dont live in major cities in the north or south regions you'll survive. God knows I need to get in shape anyway, trying to survive would help me out a lot. :]
Besides, overpopulation needs an anwser, well here it is.
1 minute after the world didn't end by the mayans calculations (if it doesn't). :]
for the LOLs
@Ninja
Its amazing you have found a religious site not filled with propaganda.
That said, I glad. Moar resources for us.
The jump from the 8-bit era to the 16-bit era was considerate. Not only were the pixel-density and color count considerably improved, but the introduction of such things as scaling and mode7 effects really made an effect.
The jump from the SNES era to the Playstation and N64 was a gigantic jump since it took the gaming generation from 2D to 3D. Sure the graphics looked like absolute crap, but it was a huge leap in gaming history.
The jump from the PSX/N64 to the Dreamcast/PS2/Xbox/Gamecube wasn't as big. The draw distances were improved, the polygon count was increased, and textures were higher resolution.
The most recent generation has done an even less of an improvement. If you graphically compare a late generation PS2 or Xbox game to some of the current gen stuff, you'll see that it's not all that much better. I'd say the latest generation's big improvement has been online interactivity rather than OMG GRAFIX!
For what's coming in the future, I doubt it'll happen soon. Graphics won't get much better until there is a drastic change in computer and console architecture. If you look at the CPU, the jump from a single core to a dual or quad core is phenomenal. Even the most demanding game will barely tax a CPU (except for a few RTS's that have complex AI behavior.) Once they make a huge breakthrough on the GPU side of things, THEN we'll see some outstanding stuff.
We have add-ons which enhance consoles further, like the motion plus, and the many firmware updates which come to us for free; I just don't want to have to spend any more money on a new piece of hardware for a long time.
It's not like old times where when a console would be lacking in abilities, you release a new one every, say, five years. Now its just a case of hopping on the internet and downloading patch 4.57 or whatever...
i agree on the wii business, twilight princess was a heap of shit, waggle or no waggle. i know everyone hates it but wind waker is my favourite zelda title because it was so different and fresh, and of course now nintendo is just rehashing all of that to death on the ds.
one console could be gaming apocalypse, or it could be amazing depending on what you think of the human soul: would developers collectivly work together to make innovations non stop without the speed bumps of petty competition? or would they all just milk us dry with lame DLC and just continue to pump out shovelware and sequel after sequel. realistically, i dont think it would change things too much other than everyone would be gaming in one place.