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RetroGamingUK

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What are your predications for gaming in 10 years time?

Nintendo
- Switch 2 turned out to be every bit as successful as Switch 1, coming to the end of its lifecycle in 2033
- Switch 3 has been on the market for 2 years, and is selling well
- Nintendo's movies have mostly been successful, they're now starting to merge franchises as per Marvel's Avengers
- Nintendo World now has more locations, including the new Universal Studios park in the UK

Sony
- PS5 outsold the PS4 due to a long lifespan and lack of early discontinuation unlike PS4, games are still being released.
- PS6, having launched in 2028, got off to a slow start with genuine exclusives not coming for the first 4 years, with generations blurring together it was seen as a PS5 Pro Pro during its early life
- 30% of PS6 sales are of the handheld variant
- PS Cloud streaming has also taken off now being available on most TV sets, it has grown the market rather than cannibalise the console business

Steam
- by now their PC "consoles" and handhelds have started to become more common thanks to wide OEM support, it's becoming more common to see boxes from the likes of Lenovo and MSI under living room TV sets
- "Steam Stream" is also gaining marketshare, competing against PS Cloud
- SteamOS has decimated Windows marketshare

Xbox
- following the huge failure of their 2027 console/PC OEM hybrids (only Asus and Acer bothered to support the initiative) the Xbox brand was shuttered in 2030
- Microsoft still make PC controllers and they sell well, but Valve now lead this market
- Halo Studios, Coalition, Rare, Double Fine, Ninja Theory and Compulsion have all been shut down
- Call of Duty, Forza Horizon, Elder Scrolls and Minecraft games still perform really well across Steam, Switch and PlayStation devices

Mobile
- it's becoming more common to see people play AAA games on their iPhone connected to a controller and TV set

Other
- VR still exists, but still hasn't taken off in a meaningful way
- Apple have seen their marketshare increase thanks to the unified platform of Mac, iPad, iPhone and TV enticing more developers
- Sega have successfully resurrected many of their classic franchises, especially Streets of Rage and Crazy Taxi Online
- Konami are now creating great games from their Osaka studio, the new Castlevania games are regarded like current-day FromSoftware games
- many US based development studios have disappeared thanks to fierce competition from China
 
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You are running in the hellish landscape of a weather desolated Europe, chasing you along all the wasteland both rich plutocrats and AI driven robots try to hunt you down.

That'll be the only game you'd be able to play. Have fun.
 
i wish for return of SEGA maybe,
maybe other platform will also released as well, i dunno, maybe chinese console
 
IAmRei said:
i wish for return of SEGA maybe,
maybe other platform will also released as well, i dunno, maybe chinese console
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The market is too calcified now to see someone come along with a new platform from scratch.

I expect to see Chinese branded and manufactured console form factor PCs in people's living rooms, Steam will be the platform for these though.
 
Nvidia
- Vehicle traffic worldwide is down because Nvidia has been prototyping their new RTX 9090 ti super GPU, it has consumed 90% of worlds electrical power, causing tenth power grid shut down this week.
 
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Playstation/ Nintendo fans have gotten too old. Dont play games anymore.

Only Fortnite, Minecraft, GTA etc bigger games remain.

That are played on PC / Phones.
 
Usually I'm very skeptical about such topics,

but your predictions look reasonable as hell!

Bravo!
 
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RetroGamingUK said:
The market is too calcified now to see someone come along with a new platform from scratch.

I expect to see Chinese branded and manufactured console form factor PCs in people's living rooms, Steam will be the platform for these though.
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Yeah, they might follow asus xbox route, it's better for them to use something universal
 
How about AI? I'm sure it might impact the gaming industry beyond just upscaling methods.
 
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RetroGamingUK said:
What are your predications for gaming in 10 years time?

Nintendo
- Switch 2 turned out to be every bit as successful as Switch 1, coming to the end of its lifecycle in 2033
- Switch 3 has been on the market for 2 years, and is selling well
- Nintendo's movies have mostly been successful, they're now starting to merge franchises as per Marvel's Avengers
- Nintendo World now has more locations, including the new Universal Studios park in the UK

Sony
- PS5 outsold the PS4 due to a long lifespan and lack of early discontinuation unlike PS4, games are still being released.
- PS6, having launched in 2028, got off to a slow start with genuine exclusives not coming for the first 4 years, with generations blurring together it was seen as a PS5 Pro Pro during its early life
- 30% of PS6 sales are of the handheld variant
- PS Cloud streaming has also taken off now being available on most TV sets, it has grown the market rather than cannibalise the console business

Steam
- by now their PC "consoles" and handhelds have started to become more common thanks to wide OEM support, it's becoming more common to see boxes from the likes of Lenovo and MSI under living room TV sets
- "Steam Stream" is also gaining marketshare, competing against PS Cloud
- SteamOS has decimated Windows marketshare

Xbox
- following the huge failure of their 2027 console/PC OEM hybrids (only Asus and Acer bothered to support the initiative) the Xbox brand was shuttered in 2030
- Microsoft still make PC controllers and they sell well, but Valve now lead this market
- Call of Duty, Forza Horizon and Fallout games still perform well across Steam, Switch and PlayStation devices

Mobile
- it's becoming more common to see people play AAA games on their iPhone connected to a controller and TV set

Other
- VR still exists, but still hasn't taken off in a meaningful way
- Apple have seen their marketshare increase thanks to the unified platform of Mac, iPad, iPhone and TV enticing more developers
- Sega have successfully resurrected many of their classic franchises, especially Streets of Rage and Crazy Taxi Online
- Konami are now creating great games from their Osaka studio, the new Castlevania games are regarded like current-day FromSoftware games
- many US based development studios have disappeared thanks to fierce competition from China
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Nice fan fiction.
 
Market split is 85% gaas, 15% SP games everywhere
Consoles doing just fine, PC doing just fine, mobile where it is now
MS 3rd party, Nintendo sold less Sw2 than Sw1, Sony still sits on top
A lot of Chinese/India/Indonesia/Arabia games with further decline of western games
AI didn't really changed things, just another UE5 situation - more accessible development just means more trash in the bin
 
We're starting to see some fully AI generated experiences, tailored to the individual tastes of the player. It could even come earlier. Each player will have a unique gaming experience, and will be able to share it with their friends.
 
Industry veterans aren't as big as they used to be.
The death of generic indie games as well as games that don't sell from their art direction.
90s and 80s spirit been revived.
AI can address bad games from happening and understand why older games are better.
 
2035: I'm 55 and don't understand anything you fucking kids say or do.

So basically the same as now, I'm just older
 
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I enter into a random battle and prepare to engage in turn based combat. Knowing I'm at the end of the game and enemies are very strong, I choose from my $30 premium party members and form a party of Legolas, The Kool Aid Man, Lily from AT&T, and Taylor Swift (Halloween Costume).

Halfway through the battle a known memory leak issue causes the game to crash. Unreal Engine 7 strikes again. I sob into a pillow.
 
Reminds me of 2001: A Space Odyssey. In the 1968 movie they used a bunch of actual real-life brands, by the actual year 2001 many of them were defunct, had been bought up/merged or disappeared with the fall of communism.
So ten years is an awful lot of time where a lot of things can happen. If there's a Sino-American war by 2027 (the year China intends to take Taiwan) it's going to shake up the industry to the point where it's unrecognizable and by 2035 chip production might have returned to volumes where it can support non-essential consumer products again.
 
RE4 Remake Remastered and TLU Parts 1 and 2 ReRemastered in 8k.

Bonus: a new Pokemon game that looks like a ps4 game.
 
Microsoft
- The Xbox brand is dead
- The gaming division is now called only "Microsoft Gaming Studios"
- Xbox Game Pass has changed its name to Microsoft Game Pass
- It no longer produces hardware, except for accessories like controllers
 
Physical stationary consoles and pcs are niche. Most games run on ultra-low-latency cloud systems, accessible from any screen, with personalized hardware acceleration streamed on demand. The rest runs on handhelds. Some games will be 90% ai. GaaS will dominate.
 
The rosy future regarding Steam seems to be based on Newell still being CEO by 2035. I'm actually dreading what might happen after he isn't.
 
Still no new Command & Conquer and the IP is now held by some Saudi-Chinese mega crop that doesn't give a shit about video games.
 
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Controller-less consoles will be a thing where the only difficulty in "beating" a game will be pushing the power button and then watching AI play it for you.
 
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  • Xbox is done in hardware
  • Ubisoft is gone
  • Handhelds take over consoles. Cloud matures to the point where top local hardware is not needed. Play native on handheld or play on cloud for the highest of settings on handheld or TV.
  • Switch 3 has a major new feature like VR or some other major gimmick.
  • PS brand suffers from its decision to launch a handheld and console. Instead of doing the all in one approach like Nintendo this decision costs the company alot of money.
  • Steam takes the living room more seriously and makes an effort for steamdeck 2 to be more than a niche handheld device.
  • AI, handhelds and cloud is where the future will be going. High end VR still remains a niche technology, but Nintendo grows it significantly with lower powered specs and price with a different way to play Mario.
 
Switch 3's powerful AI Nvidia chipset is far superior to the AMD chip in the PS6, allowing it to run neural game engines in real time. In combination with its VR capabilities, it delivers an unprecedented immersive gaming experience
 
vr GIF
 
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