| curl-6 said: The future of gaming is notoriously hard to predict; after all, who in 2015 would have expected us to be where we are today? So take your best shot; what do you think gaming will look like in the year 2035? What will be the state of Nintendo, Playstation, Xbox? What will video games themselves be like? What do you think?
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What part of 2025 is drastically different than what would have been expected in 2015?
Sony & Microsoft released pretty straight forward successors to PS4 & XBO. Online shooters, sports and open-world games are still the big hitters on those platforms. PS4 was already outselling XBO by a large margin by 2015 and that trend has continued.
I’ve never been much of a mobile or PC gamer but from what I’ve seen, those ecosystems are still very much the same as they were 10 years ago. Mobile is still predominantly small, casual games that can be played in quick bursts and PC is still dominated by Steam.
Nintendo was in a down period in 2015 and releasing a hybrid may be a surprise to many but Iwata was discussing plans to unify their handheld & console divisions as far back as 2014/2015. Vita was already dead/dying and abandoned by Sony so them opting out of the handheld market shouldn’t be a surprise.
Things like Steam Deck & Rog Ally might be a surprise but there has always been alternatives to Nintendo handhelds like Atari Lynx, Game Gear, TurboExpress, Nomad, Neo Geo Pocket, WonderSwan, N-Gage, PSP, Zodiac, Gizmondo, Vita, GPD Win, Shield Portable, etc.
2015 saw the introduction of Steam Machines which never caught on and was around the time VR headsets starting getting released but those have also remained a niche market.
Idk, I just don’t see 2025 as being massively different than 2015. To me, it seems pretty much the same and should only be surprising if you thought it would have massive changes like Nintendo going 3rd party or mobile gaming taking over or VR being mainstream.
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