[QUOTE="Ricardomz"]
What could be the future of consoles?
Motion controls? No consoles at all? Smartphones and Tablets taking over? OUYA?
psymon100
Reading this and your other posts it seems you really want people to predict the future of consoles. Sure, I'll play this game. But even though I think this goes without saying, I want to make clear two givens:
- I don't know the future, nor do I claim to have the predictive capability of Michael Pachter (may peace be upon him).
- What you're asking people to do is put their nonsense fantasy up there, so it can then be criticised by other members of system wars because it conflicts with their nonsense fantasy. *sigh*
Here's what I think. 10-20 years, that's too big a range to guess as hardware will be way different in 20yrs than 10yrs. That's a "gen-and-a-half" gap alone. Anyway, generically:
- Starting with Wii U & PS360's successors - even that won't be the last 'gen'. Some people think Gaikai/OnLive will end gens - it won't. Though it is true, consumer internet access bandwidth is changing, it's only getting more accessible, faster, and cheaper. Deployment of cloud computing server software is enjoying the same changes. It can't end gens. Internet outages happen. People who don't want to pay for the internet, or just pay for it as part of their cellphone plan happen. Playing on a laptop on the bus and not having mobile internet there also happens. Mobile internet would have to be incredibly cheap for me to pay for it. People will both want and need to play offline - more gens.
- That doesn't mean that in the future, you won't find yourself subscribing to a cloud computing gaming service for a month to enjoy some of their exclusives, or to play a couple of 5hr movie games you've had your eye on but don't want to pay retail for. Maybe there is a graphics king which renders better on their hardware than your own.
- As long as cellphone games keep selling as well as they do, there will be a massive push among some graphic-phillic developers to push cell hardware to the limits. Cellphone makers love the excuse to make new cellphones, semiconductor fabrication facilities love to fabricate newer faster semiconductors and sell them. I think it is given that battery technology is devloping over time to give greater total capacity, and capacity per unit weight, microprocessors are getting more capable whilst using less power, it's a given tech is improving. This tech will eventually get so capable that you can cheaply make hardware equivalent to today's top end PC hardware, but for a mobile device, this could take at least a decade. It only makes sense that eventually this technology might be used in a kind of reversed Wii U, majority of the power in the gamepad, and it is portable. The base station is for TV Output, maybe some auxillary processing and connecting traditional controllers, whatever. It could be powerful enough that it could target my demographic (no need nor want to game away from home), but you discover it is incredibly convenient in a power cut.
- I think eventually you might see a cellphone with an accessory of VR glasses. Touch screen on the cellphone is the controller. Yes it would look embarrassing on the bus, at least at first. Perhaps one day they'll have a discreet design as though you're wearing sunglasses.
- At think at some point in the next few gens an expensive graphics beast console will be released, again - at a premium price, by this I mean essentially it's selling feature is not Kinect/Tablet Controller/Blu Ray it is 'graphics'. I think if that's a manufacturer's machine's cleverest innovation, that such a machine is likely to fail. Nevertheless, anything is on at the right price - if it's cutting edge but inexpensive and traditional - there is a big market for that, no doubt, I admit a games console doesn't have to be novel.
- I think there will always be significant demand for traditional games. Press A to jump.
- This is a wild one, but I think we will see a rise in deep-plot centric games, but aimed at the female demographic. "According to" a "study conducted by the Entertainment Software Association in 2010, 40% of the game playing population is female, and women 18 or older now comprise 33% of all gamers." (Wikipedia). Though many girls that play games are like my girlfriend & don't miss not having these games, I've heard from many that do. Not My Horse and Me, something proper.
- Better hardcore motion control games.
- I think more publishers will try to nickel-and-dime us especially with pay-to-win games.
That's it, that's all I can really think of. Please abuse me my body is ready.
Wow... how can you always make awesome posts like this?Me personally, for future (not necessarily next gen, can be much further than that)
-I think internet will be the must have in future consoles, every games will be developed with multiplayer on mind. Cloud gaming will be fully functional within the next 10 years, in most developed countries in the world. Subscription based consoles/games will happen as well.
-F2P will rise up while there'll be less focus on full-retail games.
-Consoles size will keep getting smaller and smaller until it reach a perfect size & weight, not too small but not too big.
-New control scheme will be developed, even further than motion control. Idk, brain control? Lol yeah maybe in the far far future when brain implant is common.
-10 inches Tablet + laptop will merge. Most tablet will be around 6-7 inches aka. very good size for gaming.
All laptop are capable of using eGPU with thunderbolt (or better), to desktop size is not necessary at that point.
-More games targeting different gender/sexuality. New game genres (mixing of different genres).
-Mobile gaming will boom, when tactile touch screen technology is possible. Plus the hologram technology & TV glass technology, will be possible to experience great graphics/resolution with decent control.
-PC gaming will of course be growing nonstop, and maybe we can finally play Halflife 3 one day.
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