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While many gamers will complain bitterly about any form of change, change is needed, and it is inevitable, just like the sun rising in the morning. It has to happen.
Come check out how we see it changing, and how the 3 major houses have begun to change their approach to gaming in 2010, and beyond.
It’s a bold statement I must admit. I openly declare that we are witnessing the end of gaming as we know it, a statement that will become more apparent as 2010 marches on, and the following years unfold.
CES 2010 (Consumer Electronics Show) has shown just how the major three 1st Party Publishing Houses (Microsoft-Sony Playstation-Nintendo) are now pushing strongly into the “Social Media Networks” and “Family Unit Entertainment” realms. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to see where this is all going.
In the very forseeable future, we will see some big changes happening to gaming. We can actually see the beginnings of it already if we are not blinded to change, or perhaps pretending the world is not changing in front of us despite wanting the world of gaming to stay as it is, or better yet, as it was.
Moan or Adapt: it is changing, so get used to it.
This once was social gaming, then it became worldwide online gaming on your own in a room....until the Wii.
Traditional gaming as a focus will become less important to the major 3 players: Microsoft Xbox, Sony Playstation and Nintendo (as we’ve already seen somewhat via their Wii platform).
The “mature” games such as First Person Shooters, Third Person Shooters, Third Person Adventure, Solo- RPG games, plus War epics with their accompanying on-going series and their ilk will more often come from the major 3rd party publishers via their ever-growing developer ‘partnerships’.
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While gaming as it once was will change, it certainly is notthe end of gaming per-se. The hardcore gamers are a huge customer base. But like phones and the use of phone, when compared to say the mid- late 90's or the very early 20's, the current use and way of thinking about phones has changed dramatically.
SO when I say the face of gaming is changing, it's how gaming will be perceived by the average consumer that used to pay 'games' no never-mind in the past.
Much like the mobile phone of the past. It was a tool, now its a nessesity. And not just for making calls. More money is made through SMS and MMS than phone calls - so the current way of using phones has changed.
How we use games is also changing, not in the manner they have in the past, evolution, but now wore socially, much like the mobile phone.
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