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[Ainem Enamas]

The End of Consoles:
next gen will be the final traditional console generation, everything after that will be hybrid PC stuff with custom TV friendly frontends.

Microsoft will already go that way next gen, Sony will follow one gen after that.
Nintendo will be the final one with a closed system, since they now follow the handheld generation schedule and because they will try to stay in the closed system market through special gimmicks.


The End of Cloud Gaming:
Cloud gaming will be dead in 10 years, as small form factor PCs, mobile devices and other everyday devices will easily be able to play any game on the market natively.
this will come to be due to the increasing stagnation in game graphics and complexity, which is in part happening due to diminishing returns and due to lack of manpower to push significantly beyond what AAA games do now.

The only reason cloud gaming even exists is to play high end suff on low end hardware. with this becoming less and less of an issue, cloud gaming will lose its main reason to even exist.
another secondary reason is storage and the lack of a download, so you can just launch a game instantly. this reason isn't the best. storage space will continue to go up, and game sizes will not increase meaningfully beyond current gen AAA titles... which is again due to diminishing returns and manpower limiting scope.

Would you agree that all games would be required to be always online with satellites providing internet, around the globe, (because of the Mark of the Beast)?

 

[Ainem Enamas]

I predict...some Iron Maiden in the very near future...

I prefer Industrial music, Metal - I like Metal's heaviness also, but Industrial music is my music

 

[Topher]

(because of the Mark of the Beast)?

 

[DeVeAn]

SEGA will take over Nintendo and rename the Switch 2 to Dreamcast 2.

 

[Buggy Loop]

For me it seems Sony will have PS6 but won't have PS7 because of these Last Times. The World enters the new additional Main Quest line not to take the Mark of the Beast (as written in the Bible), and if PS7 - then I think it would be mostly internet based - with satellites providing internet everywhere. PS6 probably will have heavy AI influence like very heavy AI influence. XBOX brand going for multiple console types, like handheld variations, console variations, with emphasis on raw brutal power. Nintendo Switch 2 is the last console for them. The Last Times we are in - this evil fucking demonic shit need to pass, it looks like the Holy Trinity showing us how great gaming is, and like a glimpse of what could we enjoy in the Eternity. We are gamers here, today I'm thinking about how awesome it is for the Switch 2 to have RT support, and how good TOTK looks. Thinking what to do next in FO4 (first time playing it), and to finally beat DMC5. We gamers have a very specific mindset because we're familiar with video games like - a game has a main quest, side quests, gameplay mechanics. The Last Times... Antichrist, Mark of the Beast, wars... exactly like written in the Bible, now additional Main Quest - not to take MOTB. And more for predictions. Doom the Dark Ages is as good as Eternal in reviews. New 3D Mario next year.

Your predictions?

Same vibe really

 

[PeteBull]

 

[Parazels]

• ARM will replace x86.
• Wii and WiiU emulators on Switch 3.
• Android PC + lots of third party games.
• AI will reduce cost and increase speed of game development.
• AI will be implemented in gameplay mechanics.
• Ray tracing and path tracing by default.

 

[ProtoByte]

Somehow even crazier than OP’s post. Why on earth would there be fewer indie games when there are less and less barriers to making them?

The barrier to making an indie game being so low is a barrier unto itself. As it is, indie studios are being shuttered around the world - few people know that because few people buy the games. The lure isn't that strong to begin with, and it's made substantially worse by the fact that there's so much battling for money AND time. Everyone on this forum always talks about how they can skip some of the biggest tentpoles because of their backlog, and a backlog is a rolling factor. New indies are being skipped now.

The game industry is not growing user base anymore. Publishers might even start to demand higher curation standards from these storefronts, and there is probably good incentive for those storefronts to do that.!Once that starts to happen, the incentive for even starting to make a game is decreased.

I also think you're overestimating the ease and cheapness at which you'll be able to make competent games using AI - it will not be to the point where there are so many games at so high a quality that it's impossible and unreasonable to meaningfully curate. I wouldn't bet that the AI tools built for game dev will be handed out for free or even ala carte. There's also the issues of legality that will need to get hashed out. We know that as far as the US is concerned, majorly or purely prompt-generated works can't be copyrighted.

Schedule 1 is dominating AAAs on Steam and it’s a one man project. But you think we will get less of that and more 200 mil+ budget games?

If you honestly think that being in the top sellers on steam for a few weeks means "dominating AAAs" in their totality... lol lmao even.

The exception only proves the rule. For every Schedule 1 there are literally 1000 other releases that may as well not exist other than to clutter the store and algorithm.

 

[Ogbert]

I predict that Monster Hunter will still control like dogshit.

 

[CrimsonTide]

Elder Scrolls 7
GTA 7
Fallout 7
Metal Gear Solid 7

All will release on the same day

Only on PS7 Pro

will be an amazing day

 

[nkarafo]

Streaming will become a standard then mandatory and all games will live and die within the publisher's servers. There will be no more "preservation" or "ownership". Only renting some time with games that may or may not exist for long enough.

 

[Dorfdad]

I’ll tell you. Whether you like it or not cloud baby cloud. We won’t buy or own any games we will rent services. Gamepass will become XBOX like how we see Netflix as tv/movies.

Developers will be paid just like stReaming music services based on metrics.

Sony will have a cloud / Xbox will have cloud / nvidia will have a cloud service.

Steam will hold out on pc as long as they can but they will have to partner or start their own.

All of this will happen within the next 10 years.

We will still have consoles and pc’s but they will be minority

 

[Ainem Enamas]

OP's post was just fucking stupid. To answer the question from the thread title, which was at least coherent:

I think we're going to see indie development supplant a lot of projects for AAA studios. You'll still have your heavy hitters, but small, proven teams that are capable of "Triple-I" sorta production are probably going to be appealing for big publishers to pad out their libraries. We're at a point where small developers can produce content that's "good enough" for 99.9% of audiences, so you throw the right marketing at that, and you have massively cheaper opportunities to produce a hit that, even if it doesn't sell, is still a palatable loss. We're already seeing the start of that, but I think it's going to accelerate dramatically in the next 1-2 years, as the gaming market recovers.

What budget do you think would be necessary for those smaller teams doing that AAA stuff?

 

[Blank Space Invader]

 

[cireza]

Ultimately every single thing in the world will be a service and you will never own anything in your entire life. This includes video-games.
People will be trapped into having to spend money whenever they want to access to any kind of entertainment, or keep their money but being bored to death. You will not be able to read a single page of a book without paying a tenth of a cent.
Things that you can own and use for your own entertainment (without further cost each time you use them) will become so rare and expensive that only people with the most income will be able to afford them.
When you will die there will be nothing left to give to your children as inheritance.
The sum of your very existence will be reduced to nothingness, as if you never existed.

 

[Danny Dudekisser]

What budget do you think would be necessary for those smaller teams doing that AAA stuff?

$5-20m, depending on scale and team geography. This is literally my line of work, so I'm biased here.

 

[consoul]

Next Switch 2 revision has onboard camera.

GTA6 is a best seller on PS5, PS6 and PS7.

 

[metaru_geah_sorrido]

Games become school and culture, everything gets simulated. Nature becomes a service.

 

[BennyBlanco]

The barrier to making an indie game being so low is a barrier unto itself. As it is, indie studios are being shuttered around the world - few people know that because few people buy the games. The lure isn't that strong to begin with, and it's made substantially worse by the fact that there's so much battling for money AND time. Everyone on this forum always talks about how they can skip some of the biggest tentpoles because of their backlog, and a backlog is a rolling factor. New indies are being skipped now.

The game industry is not growing user base anymore. Publishers might even start to demand higher curation standards from these storefronts, and there is probably good incentive for those storefronts to do that.!Once that starts to happen, the incentive for even starting to make a game is decreased.

I also think you're overestimating the ease and cheapness at which you'll be able to make competent games using AI - it will not be to the point where there are so many games at so high a quality that it's impossible and unreasonable to meaningfully curate. I wouldn't bet that the AI tools built for game dev will be handed out for free or even ala carte. There's also the issues of legality that will need to get hashed out. We know that as far as the US is concerned, majorly or purely prompt-generated works can't be copyrighted.


If you honestly think that being in the top sellers on steam for a few weeks means "dominating AAAs" in their totality... lol lmao even.

The exception only proves the rule. For every Schedule 1 there are literally 1000 other releases that may as well not exist other than to clutter the store and algorithm.

And for every Monster Hunter Wilds and Wukong there are 5 Concords and Immortals of Aveum. I’m not even talking about AI when I say barriers to entry, I’m talking about UE, Unity etc being very easy to license and use. Steam will let you self publish anything you want.

If I make a game in my spare time and it flops, sucks for me but I lost nothing except my time and whatever I personally spent on the project. When Concord and Suicide Squad flopped it incinerated hundreds of millions of dollars.

Schedule I is absolutely dominating AAAs right now. On top of the global top sellers since it’s release (calculated by revenue not units sold), has 300k players right now on a Wednesday afternoon and peaked at over 460k. What do you think it’s budget was? I would bet it was under 100K all in.

Indies aren’t going away. If anything we will see more and more them.

 

[Ainem Enamas]

game prices will go up

Imagine 2026 - 100 dollar games

 

[Ainem Enamas]

Not gonna lie, I was gonna type something short along the lines of end times enter the Matrix, brain chip cycle reset lines. But the OP read my mind and did it better. Lol

This Reality is kind of Matrix-like, not exactly like movies but very close, the way the Holy Trinity designed all this. That's why for gamers it's easier to understand this, we have this specific mindset

 

[Ritsumei2020]

Nvidia will come up with another useless feature to pump the price of GPUs for no discernible benefit

“AI chatbot that reassures you that your PC is faster” exclusive for RTX 8090

 

[Ainem Enamas]

• ARM will replace x86.
• Wii and WiiU emulators on Switch 3.
• Android PC + lots of third party games.
• AI will reduce cost and increase speed of game development.
• AI will be implemented in gameplay mechanics.
• Ray tracing and path tracing by default.

I really like this post!
I think since they are showing those GameCube games on Switch 2, after 2 years they will emulate Wii and Wii U on S2.
Android PC, I partly agree, (but agree) because Windows is still very popular.
About AI - yes.

 

[DirtInUrEye]

OP's post defo sounds more interesting than the second half of TLOU2.

 

[Shubh_C63]

Xbox is going to survive.

 

[Blank Space Invader]

Xbox is going to survive.

Xbox after Sony and Nintendo take each other out:

 

[Bernardougf]

Subscription models will die or get a really high price entry next gen.

Western Devs that insists in DEI and Woke content will continue to loose ground and sales and Asian/European devs that dont cater to this shit will continue to gain/regain ground.

Ps6 will have two skus at launch one "normal" at 599 basically a ps5Pro with better cpu .. and a pro 799 console with better gpu

Xbox is done.

Switch 2 will get shitty 3rd party support as usual outside some current cross gen games

 

[RAIDEN1]

The sports genre is done (ie decent football games as they were from 20 years ago) tennis games etc...

More great franchises will go the way of Deus Ex, Alone in the Dark and Guardians of the Galaxy....

Nintendo will continue to avoid the horsepower race....

Sony will be knocked off their perch by.......(it's anyone's guess right now...but as the saying goes, nothing ever lasts forever..)

 

[Ainem Enamas]

If gamers would unite to game these Last Times, this is the theme song:

 

[sodstall]

It'll all be made outta blocks.....Roblox

 

[Parazels]

Ps6 will have two skus at launch one "normal" at 599 basically a ps5Pro with better cpu .. and a pro 799 console with better gpu

Could Sony launch the PS5 Pro in 2020 for $700? No. It would have cost $900 or 1000.

It takes several years to achieve the moment, when you can make a Pro console more powerful, but not too expensive.

 

[Danjin44]

We will see even more GAF's over the top outrage.

 

[keefged4]

 

[kungfuian]

My prediction is fully AI generated games based on parameters each player can set and edit on the fly via voice commands. You will talk to the AI game creator and it will make what you want and then edit it based on whatever rule sets you want, add or change visuals etc.

There will be a giant database of user 'created' games that players/creators can try or promote/invite their friends to try.

The market will also have games created / edited with AI and your Kojima type of creators that stand out above the rest due to these 'genius's' and their creative input.

The market will move from prepackaged skus toward paying for access to these powerful user creation tools, access to pre-created assets and a wide library of endless AI generated content, and of course some some high caliber pre created games sprinkled in (but that are editable/mod-able on the fly via voice), etc.etc.

 

[Bernardougf]

Could Sony launch the PS5 Pro in 2020 for $700? No. It would have cost $900 or 1000.

It takes several years to achieve the moment, when you can make a Pro console more powerful, but not too expensive.

The price is a place holder ... make it 599 and 899 ... its just speculation anyway ... but I firmly believe in two skus next gen.

 

[Alan Silvestro]

Playstation banana pad will be back for ps7.

 

[CLW]

Video games die once Zuckerberg and Gates combine forces to shove us against our will into meta pods where we are forced to eat cockroaches to survive

 

[ReBurn]

I think everything will be ok.

 

[The Fartist]

 

[kevboard]

Would you agree that all games would be required to be always online with satellites providing internet, around the globe, (because of the Mark of the Beast)?

 

[Bartski]

OP one bong hit away from coming out as flat earther

 

[Ainem Enamas]

I’ll tell you. Whether you like it or not cloud baby cloud. We won’t buy or own any games we will rent services. Gamepass will become XBOX like how we see Netflix as tv/movies.

Developers will be paid just like stReaming music services based on metrics.

Sony will have a cloud / Xbox will have cloud / nvidia will have a cloud service.

Steam will hold out on pc as long as they can but they will have to partner or start their own.

All of this will happen within the next 10 years.

We will still have consoles and pc’s but they will be minority

Yea sounds like the part of the Beast system

 

[Ainem Enamas]

Ultimately every single thing in the world will be a service and you will never own anything in your entire life. This includes video-games.
People will be trapped into having to spend money whenever they want to access to any kind of entertainment, or keep their money but being bored to death. You will not be able to read a single page of a book without paying a tenth of a cent.
Things that you can own and use for your own entertainment (without further cost each time you use them) will become so rare and expensive that only people with the most income will be able to afford them.
When you will die there will be nothing left to give to your children as inheritance.
The sum of your very existence will be reduced to nothingness, as if you never existed.

Fucking disgusting, that's why it's the Last Times

 

[Ainem Enamas]

$5-20m, depending on scale and team geography. This is literally my line of work, so I'm biased here.

How about dev-time? AI influence?

 

[Magic Carpet]

A Chinese console builder will come to dominate in the next 2 to 3 years. No one in China will buy a foreign made console and all developers will target the new Chinese system. Sony and Microsoft are both forced to become 3rd party.
Nintendo will finally put all their games on both Android and iPhone, and stop making their own hardware.
Steam will eventually dwindle over the years, as no new PC hardware can be found to compete with the new Chinese console nor will they be able to compete with the less than 5% Chinese store fees.

 

[Hawk The Slayer]

Fucking disgusting, that's why it's the Last Times

The image of the Beast will be worshipped through a new gen of VR/Meta/Advance A.I which are just demons disguised as A.I and where 99% of the world would be attracted to because they’ll experience their dream game, movie, fantasy, porn etc . Also can’t buy or sell without the Mark.

 

[Generic]

I know I will abandon gaming because shit is getting too expensive.

 

[Little Chicken]

Everything will be an Xbox

 

[reinking]

For me it seems Sony will have PS6 but won't have PS7 because of these Last Times. The World enters the new additional Main Quest line not to take the Mark of the Beast (as written in the Bible), and if PS7 - then I think it would be mostly internet based - with satellites providing internet everywhere. PS6 probably will have heavy AI influence like very heavy AI influence. XBOX brand going for multiple console types, like handheld variations, console variations, with emphasis on raw brutal power. Nintendo Switch 2 is the last console for them. The Last Times we are in - this evil fucking demonic shit need to pass, it looks like the Holy Trinity showing us how great gaming is, and like a glimpse of what could we enjoy in the Eternity. We are gamers here, today I'm thinking about how awesome it is for the Switch 2 to have RT support, and how good TOTK looks. Thinking what to do next in FO4 (first time playing it), and to finally beat DMC5. We gamers have a very specific mindset because we're familiar with video games like - a game has a main quest, side quests, gameplay mechanics. The Last Times... Antichrist, Mark of the Beast, wars... exactly like written in the Bible, now additional Main Quest - not to take MOTB. And more for predictions. Doom the Dark Ages is as good as Eternal in reviews. New 3D Mario next year.

Your predictions?

I got a contact buzz from reading that.

 

[onQ123]

I'm going to quote myself