Will any new game genres come along and be game changers?

[zarx]

one problem I see with your list is that most if not all of them weren't game changers they just popularised older changes.

* Super Mario Bros. = ok I will give you that

* Tetris = that to

* Grand Theft Auto 3 (put sandbox games on the map). = yes but sandbox games were around long before even the first GTA wasn't the first sandbox

* Final Fantasy VII (add FMV to JRPGs) = FMVs yea they were around before FF7

* Madden Football (EA finally put football on the map with this on the Genesis) = OK

* Street Fighter II = not the first but it was popular

* Gran Turismo (driving sim done to that scope) = Ok that was kinda revolutionary

* Wii Sports (I will throw this on here due to motion control, rather than just controller) = well it was a thech demo I don't realy think it as a game changed anything why don't you just replace it with the Wii

* Legend of Zelda = ok

* Guitar Heroes/Dance Dance Revolution. DDR i will give you but Guitar hero wasn't even the first Guitar rhythm game

* World of Warcraft (breakthrough title for massive multiplayer RPG) = replace with EverQuest

* Starcraft (definitative RTS, that became a phenomenon in South Korea). = but it was just a refined and upgraded Warcraft 2 which was the same for Warcraft 1 and Dune 2 was the real game changer

* Nintendogs (put pet simulator on the map in a way that generated sales) = once again just popularised it

* Brain Age (put doing puzzles/brain development, is put on the map) = popuralised

* Wii Fit (fitness becomes a game). = wasn't the first

so basically from your list you wan't to know when today's innovations will catch on? well I don't really see anything new but MAG may popularise large scale online FPS games poor Battlefield.

another point I hate it when people act like user generated content was invented by littleBigPlanet Blizzard RTSs for one have been doing it for years in my opinon its one of the better inovations they made to the RTS genre. User generated content is an old concept and as far as I know there are much better implementations.