Discussion Topic: Video games in 2030!
It’s hard not to look at the evolution of the video game and feel utterly gobsmacked. Let’s face it, as shitty as games are sometimes, the ‘video game’, as a medium, has transcended it’s origins in a way most people would have never expected. When I load up an old NES, Super NES, or Genesis game it’s an instant reminder of just how far games have come over the last 30 years. But if there’s one thing that is clear about video games, as with technology, it’s that progression never stops nor does it slow down. For instance, do you remember this slick ad for “PS9″ that was released prior to the launch of thePS2? While the idea of nano-machines crawling around in my head and sending tons of audio-visual information directly into my cerebral cortex borders on frightening (and the stuff that sci-fi novels are made of) this ad recently got me thinking again about what the next several generations of gaming might look like. Will games and games systems become even more powerful? Will interaction with a computer be as close as the interaction between two humans. Will ‘controlling’ a game be the translation of a thought rather than the translation of a movement? Will I even want to use a controller 25 years from now? Or will something have come along that is six or seven generations past the ‘Move’ and the ‘Natal’ now; something that will make our kids look back at controllers and scoff in disbelief?
So, I figured I’d throw the discussion topic to you guys. What do you want to see in the future of gaming? Where do you think the current tech is taking us? And if you had to make one crazy, wild, off-the-wall prediction about where gaming will be in the year 2030. What would that be?
Leave a response here, on VGEVO.com, or send us an email at theblog@gamecrashers.net. Check back on May 25th to see what we had to say about this topic on Ep.46 of GameCrashers Radio!
By 2030, “video games” will be nothing more than discarded pieces of broken junk lying about ghost towns, with no purpose except as projectiles, to be tossed desperately and helplessly at fast-approaching post-apocalyptic mutant zombie freedom fighters by those survivors unfortunate enough to have outlasted the live ammunition.