Predict what gaming will look like in 2035

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zorg1000 said:

curl-6 said:

I mean, I didn't see many people in 2015 predict that the successor to the Wii U would outsell the PS4 and DS, or that Forza and Gears of War would come to Playstation, or the advent of AI, or that Sony's first party blockbusters would come to PC.

Calling Switch the successor to Wii U while leaving out their handheld line is pretty disingenuous. Yeah, 150+ million would have seemed like a long shot but like I said, Nintendo was already talking about unifying their handheld & consoles into a unified ecosystem as far back as 2014 so the successor to 3DS+Wii U (~90 million) being a big hit shouldn’t have been a surprise.

Yeah, Sony & Microsoft have started to release games on other platforms which is surprising but I don’t think those are massive shifts that make 2025 unrecognizable to someone in 2015. Console/mobile/PC hardware & software is a pretty straightforward evolution of the last decade.

I’m not really sure what to say about AI, has it done something that drastically changed gaming?

The thought that "NX" as it was known then would sell over 150 million would be considered utterly laughable in 2015; even the 3DS barely made it to 75m.

Similarly, if you'd told people in 2015 that you'd be playing Forza/Gears on Playstation or TLOU2/Spiderman/God of War on PC (officially, not via emulation) that would be considered far fetched.

The stuff AI is doing now was science fiction a decade ago, and its application in gaming is (unfortunately, it can be argued) considerable and growing rapidly in everything from content generation to DLSS to lifelike NPC interactions. (See the AI Darth Vader in Fortnite recently which quickly started being racist)

Last edited by curl-6 - on 29 June 2025