Hayabusabruh
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Predict the future of gaming 3 generations from now
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schaft0620
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- Video games are made at home in the basement like music. Games cost $10 and they are 4 or 5 hours long, if they are not Multi-player.
- Lots of remakes and remasters for $10 like Earth Worm Jim and Army Men.
- Amazon is involved somehow.
- Facebook is a massive VR company.
- Games overtake music and movies in terms of pop culture.
- Biopic on Gabe Newell called GabeN.
- Phil Spencer retires as President of Microsoft. Credited with saving the company.
- 3 different NFL games.
- Lots of remakes and remasters for $10 like Earth Worm Jim and Army Men.
- Amazon is involved somehow.
- Facebook is a massive VR company.
- Games overtake music and movies in terms of pop culture.
- Biopic on Gabe Newell called GabeN.
- Phil Spencer retires as President of Microsoft. Credited with saving the company.
- 3 different NFL games.
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GreenAlien
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World wide gaming restrictions following China's lead will spark a revival of retro (offline) consoles.
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Duchess
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Tencent owns all the major studios, as well as Sony and Nintendo.
The firm reports all your online gaming habits to the CCP, who can cut you off at a moment's notice. They're watched through the TV or monitor, as well as the microphone on your smartphone, which must be connect to your gaming device at all times.
Attempts to circumvent this results in a huge number of men bursting into your house at 2am and dragging you off to Room 101, where you are forced to declare your loyalty to Big Brother.
Sorry, just read 1984 for the first time recently
The firm reports all your online gaming habits to the CCP, who can cut you off at a moment's notice. They're watched through the TV or monitor, as well as the microphone on your smartphone, which must be connect to your gaming device at all times.
Attempts to circumvent this results in a huge number of men bursting into your house at 2am and dragging you off to Room 101, where you are forced to declare your loyalty to Big Brother.
Sorry, just read 1984 for the first time recently
Matt_Fox
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Year 2040.
-Photo realism achieved in graphics, although many games opt for stylised. Human-on-human violence in games typically occurs in historical or fantastical settings due to the unsavoury nature of a photo realistic 'murder sim'.
-Customisation and content creation is king. Todays youth value this extremely highly and they will be the consumers of the future. The most popular will accumulate 'followers' and you will be able to share and enter their version of the game.
-Streaming to screen. The only hardware you'll own is a game pad (or in the case of a PC, a keyboard and mouse). People do love nostalgia though and the vast majority of todays and past titles will still be playable in 2040.
-VR and AR. Glasses will be lightweight and nausea free, and will be used to conduct business meetings, shop, socialising (and no doubt for porn too). Meetings will take place either in virtual environments or in real ones via a small floating telepresence drone, and will replace Zoom / Teams. VR experiences similar to paintball, escape rooms and laser tag will be popular attractions with kids parties.
-Photo realism achieved in graphics, although many games opt for stylised. Human-on-human violence in games typically occurs in historical or fantastical settings due to the unsavoury nature of a photo realistic 'murder sim'.
-Customisation and content creation is king. Todays youth value this extremely highly and they will be the consumers of the future. The most popular will accumulate 'followers' and you will be able to share and enter their version of the game.
-Streaming to screen. The only hardware you'll own is a game pad (or in the case of a PC, a keyboard and mouse). People do love nostalgia though and the vast majority of todays and past titles will still be playable in 2040.
-VR and AR. Glasses will be lightweight and nausea free, and will be used to conduct business meetings, shop, socialising (and no doubt for porn too). Meetings will take place either in virtual environments or in real ones via a small floating telepresence drone, and will replace Zoom / Teams. VR experiences similar to paintball, escape rooms and laser tag will be popular attractions with kids parties.
Bryank75
Banned
Business is driven by demand, it's one of the first things you learn in a business school.... there is no demand for cloud gaming. Yet look at the demand for consoles, PC and Switch....
Oddvintagechap
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We all find out we are all NPCs in GTA 6 on a PS8.
boomcrab
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CuNi
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3 Generations from now aka something around 25 years from now?
Damn, if 90% won't be in AR/VR/MR I'd be heavily surprised TBH.
I feel like this is where gaming will ultimately move to with traditional 2D gaming being the rare anomaly.
To explain tho, I'd count Mouse + Keyboard and a AR/VR/MR Headset not as traditional 2D gaming. Imagine connecting those devices wirelessly to your headset and staring at a blank wall that actually acts like a monitor you play on with all the depth information etc. kinda like a "3D TV/PC Screen" just without a actual device but all overlaid through the HMD.
Damn, if 90% won't be in AR/VR/MR I'd be heavily surprised TBH.
I feel like this is where gaming will ultimately move to with traditional 2D gaming being the rare anomaly.
To explain tho, I'd count Mouse + Keyboard and a AR/VR/MR Headset not as traditional 2D gaming. Imagine connecting those devices wirelessly to your headset and staring at a blank wall that actually acts like a monitor you play on with all the depth information etc. kinda like a "3D TV/PC Screen" just without a actual device but all overlaid through the HMD.
Cutty Flam
Banned
People will be able to play their games on a thin film-like sheet of paper type hybrid console that they can fold up and keep in their pocket. Just roll it up, take it literally anywhere you’d like and game with zero hassle
PleaseWaitStation4
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PleaseWaitStation4
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Pixels the width of red blood cells... https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/mo...-with-ar-display-processor-and-wireless-tech/
killatopak
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Neo_GAF
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Basically:
-From ps1 to ps4, who would have predicted that sega would not exist anymore just a mere 6 years later?
-Ms entering the market?
-indie, online, VR, dlc, sims,.. Becoming a thing?
Absolutely impossible to predict something which is more than 20 years away. I guess gaming does not exist anymore because we are busy with cooler ways of being occupied, outside of retrogaming.
-From ps1 to ps4, who would have predicted that sega would not exist anymore just a mere 6 years later?
-Ms entering the market?
-indie, online, VR, dlc, sims,.. Becoming a thing?
Absolutely impossible to predict something which is more than 20 years away. I guess gaming does not exist anymore because we are busy with cooler ways of being occupied, outside of retrogaming.
CandyCrushSagat
Neo Member
Consoles will all be portable and dockable. The dock will have a super graphics accelerator to make games run at 120hz 8K.
Hulk_Smash
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BadBurger
Is 'That Pure Potato'
Console-specific life:
Advances in short-range wireless connectivity will result in all devices using open protocols to communicate with each other with virtually no latency over farther distances than currently common. So if one wants to play their console on their screen of choice, no matter where the console is in their house, they just pick up their controller, hit the button, and the console streams it all with near zero latency (including for the controller) to their chosen screen.
Standalone VR headsets like the Quest 2 will by then be so powerful that their internals rival standalone consoles, and will play to any screen in either VR or standard formats, so some people take to treating their VR headset as their console.
General gaming:
Advances in networking technologies should make concepts like bandwidth and data usage archaic terms by then, because it should all be figuratively limitless for what an individual uses the internet for at that point (we're talking about 20 years in the future here). So cloud gaming will be the most common way to play games either at home or on the move. Cloud gaming services will compete for their own content the way streaming media services like Amazon and Netflix currently compete with on another now.
Mobile:
Phones will be almost as powerful as a dedicated console. Device screens will be easily made expandable and retractable at will which does away with the need for tablets - since everything is effectively a tablet.
The big rage for mobile gamers are a plethora of MMO's that take place in the real world thanks to augmented reality. "Our World of Warcraft" sells over 500m units in its worldwide launch week and has both new users for which WoW is merely an artifact of pop culture history, as well as now elderly veterans of the defunct WoW, buying it and seen wandering around city streets the world over battling virtual monsters together.
Advances in short-range wireless connectivity will result in all devices using open protocols to communicate with each other with virtually no latency over farther distances than currently common. So if one wants to play their console on their screen of choice, no matter where the console is in their house, they just pick up their controller, hit the button, and the console streams it all with near zero latency (including for the controller) to their chosen screen.
Standalone VR headsets like the Quest 2 will by then be so powerful that their internals rival standalone consoles, and will play to any screen in either VR or standard formats, so some people take to treating their VR headset as their console.
General gaming:
Advances in networking technologies should make concepts like bandwidth and data usage archaic terms by then, because it should all be figuratively limitless for what an individual uses the internet for at that point (we're talking about 20 years in the future here). So cloud gaming will be the most common way to play games either at home or on the move. Cloud gaming services will compete for their own content the way streaming media services like Amazon and Netflix currently compete with on another now.
Mobile:
Phones will be almost as powerful as a dedicated console. Device screens will be easily made expandable and retractable at will which does away with the need for tablets - since everything is effectively a tablet.
The big rage for mobile gamers are a plethora of MMO's that take place in the real world thanks to augmented reality. "Our World of Warcraft" sells over 500m units in its worldwide launch week and has both new users for which WoW is merely an artifact of pop culture history, as well as now elderly veterans of the defunct WoW, buying it and seen wandering around city streets the world over battling virtual monsters together.
KungFucius
King Snowflake
The future is all shitty AI that doesn't work and confused customers who can't find a human to help them with their issues. As far as gaming goes it will be cloud based and will work OK for most but will suck for some people who, since they can't find support, will have wasted money on something they cant use and will never participate again. These people will collect PS6s or PCs and play old games. They will come to GAF and bitch about new games being too PC and too hipster. It will be glorious.
BadBurger
Is 'That Pure Potato'
Actually, yea, a lot has changed with the consoles as the technologies around them advanced. Gaming in general has expanded into mobile and cloud. As science and tech march forward so do the devices that use them. The gaming world should look wild in 18-20 years.
Coolwhhip
Neophyte
Eh you still stab or shoot things on your tv mostly.
ZywyPL
Banned
3 generations means like quarter of century, so:
MS - XB as a console doesn't exist anymore, it's all xCloud/GP now.
Sony - NINE HUNDRED AND NINETY NINE US DOLLARS! (plus 99$ games). J/K, it'll be all PS Now as well.
Nintendo - solely handheld market with Wifi Direct feature to stream onto big TV when needed.
MS - XB as a console doesn't exist anymore, it's all xCloud/GP now.
Sony - NINE HUNDRED AND NINETY NINE US DOLLARS! (plus 99$ games). J/K, it'll be all PS Now as well.
Nintendo - solely handheld market with Wifi Direct feature to stream onto big TV when needed.