We all know videogames are going to dominate in the next couple of years. A time where every room has a computer in it. A time when instead of doing sport you go kill some aliens. A time when Jack Thompson is public enemy number 1. The people over at Cracked.com have done some predictions on what videogames will be like in the next 25 years. From infinite wireless to virtual reality this list is actually quite interesting
2008:Neverending Games, Sony’s Model-T Matrix
Your malformed abominations, along with all the civilization and technologies that spring from your deranged imagination, are automatically uploaded online where they become part of the Spore universe. Those other planets you get to travel to? They're all created by other gamers.
They're planning on half a million stars with millions of planets orbiting. When we say "infinite," we mean it. We're talking about a game you could literally spend the rest of your natural life exploring without ever reaching the end.
Whether or not this particular game becomes a hit, this method of game creation is the inevitable future. A whole lot of what sucks about games right now--specifically, the huge art budgets that force publishers to cash in with shitty licensed games--will go by the wayside. Game makers won't have to construct a whole digital universe; they can simply provide the blueprint and distribute the creation process to millions of people like you and me.
But, what could wind up having an even bigger impact ...
PS3 Home
Sometime in the Spring of '08 Sony will break ground on the kind of virtual world that has been predicted by, well, about 40 percent of the science-fiction stories written in the last 50 years.
It’s called PS3 Home and basically anybody with a PS3 console will be able to take a handsomer version of themselves into a cleaner, more-awesome version of the real world and mill around with other gamers doing the same.
I don’t think we can summarize the scale of this as well as the insightful experts at PrisonPlanet.com have HERE, with the headline:
SONY BRINGS REAL LIFE MATRIX A STEP CLOSER
SETS PRECEDENT FOR FUTURE ARTIFICIAL UTOPIAS
CONSTRUCTED TO ESCAPE HELLHOLE OF REAL WORLD
Hell, yes. If we were Sony, we’d put that shit right on a billboard. Not that this is a tough sell; every move mankind has taken toward a virtual community has drawn a stampede. From MySpace to World of Warcraft, the promise of being able to start your life over as a cooler, better-looking version of yourself has been irresistible.
What Will Suck About It
People are dicks.
Check your inbox. How many of your emails are from friends, as opposed to spammers? How many of your female MySpace-friend requests are dummy pages set up for porn?
Spore and PS3 Home are still made up of people and therefore a certain percentage of those wondrous new universes will be composed of dicks. At some point you will travel to a wondrous new Spore world and find the creatures there have evolved to have hides covered in porn URLs.
As for PS3 Home, do you think Sony is pouring tens of millions into development so you and your little friends have a place to hang out? No, they’re creating one of the greatest targeted-marketing opportunities in the history of advertising. How long until busty virtual girls are chatting you up, then interrupting flirty conversations to say they'll need 20 bucks to continue?
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~FFXFREAK
In any case, in my opinion his idea for gaming over the next 25 years sounds fairly accurate and I think it's gonna kick ass mostly.
Take notice people reading this, my following link goes to the creator of that article's main page, Pointless Waste Of Time, it's not exactly a site for people who can't deal with some more mature themes. You have been warned http://www.pointlesswasteoftime.com/
And computers that are more powerful than the ones today, produced for $1? Again, I doubt it would be quite that good...
And it will take many years before the population at large, are willing to have something hacking into their brain, even if it is all good...
Remotely monitoring people's brain activities, makes one pause (for a long time)...I don't want ANYONE accessing my brain like that, no thanks...I've got a dark, twisted psyche, I don't want anyone calling me on that...especially not the government or something...