Soundwave said:
Egann said:
Well, let me throw this out there: we're already pushing the bounds of HDTV's with only two generations, and somewhere in generations 9, 10, or 11 we will get the Virtual Reality generation. And it's looking to be sooner, not later. If Sony and Microsoft adopt cutting edge VR tech for their next consoles and Nintendo doesn't (the way HD went for a generation) they'll have lost the home console space for a whole generation.
That said, Nintendo can just float on portables all the way through a generation like that and launch their own. It all depends on what tech the future brings around, when, and how expensive it would be to adopt when it launches. |
I honestly don't know if "game hardware" as in a console "box" will exist in 20 years. Probably something like a virtual reality simulation sure, but something that is piped in over the internet through a cloud service that includes cable/movies/games etc. No game console needed.
I think in 10 years from now you'll still have the standard game console model, but much like Blu-Ray/DVD dedicated players today, you'll also start to see the writing on the wall.
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I'm less convinced. Technology is starting to plateau, effects before hardware. It tales a huge difference in hardware to make a noticable difference in the end product. Why would you transfer the computational aspects to a server when the computational aspects are increasingly the trivial part of the equation and it makes it more likely something will go wrong? Chances are, after gen 8 we will see games move away from traditional game controllers in favor of a Nintendo-like attitude toward interaction (Microsoft is already trying with Kinect).
Like I said, the next major step console manufacturers will aim for is virtual reality. The question is if this is twenty years or sixty.
