Sony with games such as LittleBigPlanet 2 (extensive user created content) and Gran Turismo 5 (soon with virtual reality support) are doing exactly what I hoped they would do and see potential for:
Another comment made by me a few years ago:
"Back in the 80s operating system bootup times were near instant or at most it took only a few seconds to load a full blown mouse controlled desktop environment from the harddrive. With all the technology advancements I envisioned I imagined computing to have become near instant just like turning on a TV, actually I thought turning on the computer would allow you to instantly continue your work at the point you turned off the system. So if you would be painting a picture, turn off the system, then turn it on again you should just be able to continue where you left off.
Instead what we got today isn't much different than was already possible in the 80s. One of the most profound user experience advancements for PC users is probably multi-tasking, but copy & pasting between word processor, spreadsheet, database, paint program was already possible on my Amiga from the 80s. Internet advancements so far were also unsurprising and underwhelming, in the early 90s I read a lot of message boards and downloaded lots of Amiga games from the internet), playing games online today isn't that different from playing 80s Amiga games like Stunt Car Racer (a game at its core pretty similar to for example Motorstorm) or Battle Chess over nullmodem cable.
I would have envisioned games like Gran Turismo to become much more than glorified version of Testdrive with hyper realistic graphics (a '3D' driving game from incar perspective from the 80s). I would have imagined small high resolution virtual reality glasses with stereo sound and microphone by now, being able to play a game like Motorstorm of GT5 and watch besides you to watch out of a virtual car window, similar for watching movies from within a virtual cinema with friends, etc. After all there were already Amiga based game systems supporting virtual reality headset and hand tracking, being able to play 4 player 3D first-person shooters in Deatch Match and Capture the flag modes well before Wolfenstein3D or years before Doom got released for the PC."
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=184843&page=18
