Gaming 30 Years From Now?

Wow thirty years... look at how far gaming has come in half that. I suppose graphics can only get so good though, and what's really gonna change things is innovations in the users perception of a game as well as control method. needless to say the Wii shows a mainstream step in the evolution of that aspect. I imagine eventually it'll get to a point when playing a game is much like entering The Matrix. Or maybe more realisticly what they did in Virtuosity, which was basically dangling the user in midair while they run and gun in virtual police training missions. atayl22

I'm not gonna predict, just sit back, game, and waitToriko42

We will be too busy searching for food among ruins while defending our stash from Chinese sea pirates to play any games. Hardcore gamers will probably be like "Wow, Fallout 4!".

We will be too busy searching for food among ruins while defending our stash from Chinese sea pirates to play any games. Hardcore gamers will probably be like "Wow, Fallout 4!".

TristanShand

LOL, good one.

30 years from now, it's gonna be in pill form. You take a red pill, and your inside of a video game world created inside your head. You take the blue pill when your inside the game, to quit and wake up.

30 years from now, it's gonna be in pill form. You take a red pill, and your inside of a video game world created inside your head. You take the blue pill when your inside the game, to quit and wake up.

MasterKingMP

That's some scary sh**, i mean getting your consciousness trap in a game world.

My guess is it will be like the Matrix, but i don't think we can have holes on the back of our head, way too early for that.Yorro

Lol, I just saw that, my thoughts exactly.

I think games will be more integrated into daily activities; I think things like Wii Fit are just the start of that. We could further see the line between gamer and non-gamer blurred in that regard.

I also kind of think that we'll look back on the time period we're in now as the glory years of games. Maybe that's a pessimistic idea, but if you look at movies, music, and television, they (to me anyway) all right now aren't what they used to be, and I think a big reason is because so much has been done already and there's not much left to innovate. Eventually I think video games are going to resemble that same type of curve.

Film is what I tend to compare games to; if you look at film, sure there's some good movies that come out here and there, but the best years of film are regarded as ones in the past and most of what comes out these days seems to be sequels, recycled ideas, or mindless stuff with no artistic merit that's designed to get young people to pay for a ticket. I'm thinking that down the road we'll look back at games the same way -- yeah people will be playing and fun games will still be out, but I think we'll look back in thirty years as the 30-year period between NES and whatever is on the horizon as the glory years of games. Some people might think games are already on the way down as we seem to be bombarded with sequels and clones (and I'm sure just like movies, a rush on remakes will be right around the corner), but I am optimistic that games still have growth to do. 30 years from now though, I'm not sure if there will be much growth left although I don't have much of an imagination, so who knows. I do think we'll see some exciting things in the years to come, probably stuff like true interactive movies, more hands-on stuff, etc, but I also wonder if there's a finite amount of growth that can be done and if we'll have hit that point in 30 years.

I also think we'll still be waiting on Duke Nukem Forever.

Yep, I'm going with the Matrix/Teaching aid ideas. I think we'll have mastered, or at least scratched VR in a believable sense. If anyone remembers the PS2 commercial advertising for PS9, where the kid opens a jar and little particles start interacting with him, etc... It might be something like that. We already have people inserting micro chips into themselves to do all sorts of crazy things, so I don't think that's too far off.

However, the mass market will most likely be a less invasive interface, probably a glove or series of IR projectors/monitors with a headset or nifty pair of sunglasses. Anyone seen the MP4 watches? If displays are getting that small, we may just have contact lenses in 30 yrs!

I think to some degree the overall game content (plot, interaction, replayability) may get watered down, but hopefully, along with scientific progress, we'll also have some more original story lines and concepts to play with. I'm hoping fantasy takes a back seat to scifi, but that's just me ;)

My predictions:

• Artifical Intelegence will advance to a point that they'll be just about as challanging, if not more so, than most real players.
• Your voice will be an integral part of controlling games. Actually I believe voice recognition will start to have a major impact within the next five to ten years.
• Another important method of controller your games will be your eyes and hands. Eye and gesture tracking will eventually supplant more conventional controls.
• For those that are disabled, neral implants will still allow them to interact and play.
• The televisions we play on will be "Autostereoscopic"... which means they will be able to display 3D holographic images without the need to wear anything on ones face.

I would want to see affordable VR with mental controls (which are already being developed).