I feel like three things are happing this gen:
1) online for consoles has hit maturity ( I know it started with Live and Xbox but I only think that now, with 360 and rapidly maturing PSN is it really established)
2) motion sensing. I actually think its use is weak (even on Wii) but it's definitely there and millions are waggling around their living rooms as proof. I'm sure we'll see its use mature and evolve from this point forward.
3) the first real signs of user created content on consoles (something that has been a staple of PCs for years) with games like LBP and Halo 3 adding the Forge, etc. This is early days yet, but I have high hopes that eventually it'll be core to many games allowing the mod scene to truly come to consoles
4) HD - again, this may be from my roots as a hardcore PC gamer, but the arrival of HD is massive for me. I can give up my M&K for a big couch and TV, but only thanks to the graphics PS3/360 have brought to the scene.
5) A vibrant community (even if it does bloody argue to much about which console is better!). But still, its there and goes hand in hand with 1) above
6) Console as a media centre - again, I'm really pleased to see consoles delivering films, video, internet, music, photos, etc in HD (well, SD for Wii and only photos) right to your TV / Speakers.
Try to be reasonable... its easier than you think...
| Reasonable said: I feel like three things are happing this gen: 1) 2) 3) 4) 5) 6) |
I guess after three things you just kept on typing.
Digital content delivery. The XBLA, Playstation Store, and Wii Shop Channel are the best things on consoles this gen.
Online distribution. It's lowering barriers to game development.
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Netflix, web browsers, downloadable demos, Mii-vatars, standard wireless controllers, motion controls, downloadable games, Blu-ray, VGChartz, Barrack Obama, seedless watermelons, and internet porn. It's a 12 way tie.
FREE online gaming. I really don't care for the extras that xbox live offers for a fee. I just want to log on anytime and play after purchasing the console
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"WAR is a racket. It always has been.
It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives"---Maj. Gen. Smedley Butler
I'm torn between fanboy hissyfits and the downloadable services.
Expanded audience.
gaming is no longer considered niche and "dumb"
instead of seeing only the "negative aspects of gaming on television we now see some positive.
good time right now
hello how are you.
| d21lewis said: and internet porn. |
You're like 2 generations late on this one.
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