sinha said:
Innovations in "next-gen" gaming (casual gaming & realism taken to their logical conclusion): There will only be two companies left in the next-gen console wars, Sony and Nintendo. Microsoft will get out of the video game business when the few thousand Xbox 360 owners whose consoles don't break are shamed into selling their systems. The 360 owners won't be able to handle the endless ridicule and tauntings they experience in online gaming forums for owning a console that, although it may have the most games AND the most highly rated games, sells the least number of hardware units to middle-aged Japanese housewives.
Nintendo will build on the success of Wii Sports and Wii Fit by introducing improved versions. Wii Sports 2 will come with real tennis rackets, bowling balls, golf clubs, and baseball bats that can be used on all the real tennis courts, bowling alleys, golf courses and baseball fields throughout the world. Wii Fit 2 will sell yoga mats and other exercise equipment (weights, treadmills, stationary bikes, etc.). There will be Wii Fit-ness Centers in every town, where those who can't afford their own Wii Fit equipment can pay a monthly fee to go and play the game.
All of these products will be used by gamers in the real world, which Sony will re-label Home 2. The real world of Home 2 will be infinitely more realistic than the previous version of Home. Your avatar will not just look somewhat like you, it will BE you. Sony will open a real estate business, furniture stores, clothing stores, and hair salons, providing Home 2 users with thousands of customization options at reasonable prices.
Rock Band 2 users will form real rock bands with real musical instruments, and a small minority will even achieve fame and fortune (achievements, Microsoft's one contribution to next-gen gaming), which means at least some of them will actually get laid unlike those who play the original version of Rock Band. |
Microsoft will be making Xbox's as long as sony's consoles are entertainment systems.
Anyways, I don't expect much innovation for the next gen, just Nintendo trying to keep itself ahead of the game for a little while, as Sony and Microsoft try and "catch up". But the gen after next i would expect more innovation to be used in some sort of way. Depends on the tech used be then.
