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SamuelRSmith on 02 February 2009
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bardicverse said:
SamuelRSmith said:
bardicverse said:
Never. Next step id digital distribution via internet. There may be some use for solid state drives if they become cheaper.

 

 If? More of a case of when. I highly suspect that at least one of the consoles next generation will use SSD, and by the next one... it'll be bog standard shit.

We'll have phones with 100s of gigs of secondary memory by then, and gigs of main memory (at the very least).

Let me rephrase that... If they become cheap enough to be mass market for consoles. I doubt games will ship on solid state drives, since optical media is less than a dollar per copy. Yet a solid state drive would make a good console component. My ideal future is kiosks at game stores where you can plug in a removable SSD or a whole console and directly dload the game to your console if you dont want to do it over your home internet connection.

 

 

 

 

 Ah, yeah, I understand what you're saying. That's how I'll personally see it. Also, this would mean that an optical drive would be useless, and with other wireless technologies (including transferring the rendered output to the television/sound device), consoles will shrink down in size.

I personally think that within the next 10-20 years (so, 15) handhelds and home consoles may become the same thing. You just chose whether you use the system's onboard screen/controls or wirelessly connect to everything else.

I also see the laptop getting replaced by a mobile phone which you can connect to a wireless docking station for full use. Desktop computers will merely become monitors with wireless keyboards/mice (though those would become pointless with voice recognition and touchscreen).

A <£100 phone in a decade will have more power than your typical average computer/camera/music playing device combined.

Sorry for straying off the point, but I can't wait for the future. It excites me.

(Which reminds me... I was watching Futurama the other day, can't remember which episode, but Fry was playing a game console which used wired controllers. It made me laugh, and it wasn't even meant to be a joke).