border said:
I dunno if you noticed, but you wrote 1500 words about why gaming is so great.....yet it's all an indulgent jerkoff about technology and multimedia features, with basically no consideration of where games themselves are headed.
This is why gaming will implode.
I did not know how many words I wrote, but thanks for counting.
As I said it could and probably should have gone longer and more time should have been spent rationalizing further ramifications of what is exciting in the industry and why it can sustain it as a whole.
I made considerations about where games are headed in that post and other posts that followed it trying to think over the worry over game development costs increase and what it means to the gaming market. I think it is a worthless and troll/fanboy fodder to start dancing around the "oh the noes... revolutionary revolution features are the only holy grail for the industry VS oh the noes... there Nintendo goes down the shitter with their next worthless gimmick" purely subjective gameplay elucubrations.
I said gamers WANT some things from games, more realism (which does not mean photo-realistic visuals and perfect recreation of OUR reality, there is a difference better expressed by the wider gap that it is easier to see when you think about consistency VS inconsistency), more interactivity with the environments, larger scale and more populated by life-like A.I.'s environments.
What they want COSTS more... wheter you take the EASIEST to program for device (tm) or 1,280 PlayStation 2's in parallel with a software Rasterizer running on 2,560 PSOne's linked together through serial connections. Content makes more and more part of this equation.
I also see other trends and not just the market catering to those hard-core graphics whores
and I see quite a bit of people willing and happy of supporting such trends. I see users happy and requesting innovation in games that is less focused on expensive UBER high quality 3D graphics and relaed high budget content: the ICO lovers, the SotC lovers, the CV: DoS lovers, the Katamari Damaci lovers, the EyeToy and Nintendo Revolution lovers (there sure is space to innovate and widen the market by pushing innovation in the UI and games physical interaction arena).
I also see and have said it several times in this thread too, that we can survive the higher price for AAA games and how console manufacturers are helping to minimize the required increase by allowing developers to keep a bit more of what each game makes pushing also on other venues (price of the console, which is still justified by what they provide to the end user so it is not offending or insulting, accessory, online initiatives/communities) as new income streams.
I also see developers being able to provide the content people want while also pushing their own wishes of innovation and creativity without the chocking hold many BIG publishers would love to keep on game creators in the name of simply higher and higher profits satisfying mainstream tastes until the market gets stale for real. That is why I look forward to technologies such as STEAM and the like helping IMHO developers to become a bit more independent from publishers and retailers which could also turn in lower priced games from some developers or simply even larger scale and polished games.
I put faith in the fact the industry will expand and there are untapped categories and countries which can help this industry to survive and evolve.
This has to be added to the bigger picture, that which stops and considers that gaming machines are becoming and RIGHTFULLY so more than what we USED to conceive them in the past. This can be good for games too as the added capabilities and peak potgential of the new machines can be harnessed and put to good use.
Games do not exist in a vacuum, next-generation games will never have their chance to shine to help expand the market if the console makers/hardware makers simply put out uber-expensive and limited machines of which the only positive point was that they played more complex games. Some people do not appreciate and do not recognize the complexity of the little detials and the polish that goes in lots of games and might find hard to justify the growing console costs without something more done. We have to help gaming innovations to be born, but we also have to help to sustain them and to allow them to live and prosped which is what the three console makers are trying to do.
Just as I see WiFi and the new Revolution controller expanding gaming and the user's experience one way I see the efforts of MS and SCE going in a different direction, but pushing for the same goal.
Do not be so hasty judging people and their thoughts, it can be quite obnoxious and arrogant and I have never previously thought of you like that.
Have lots of free time now that I finished University...jejeje
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