Writer's Block: Portal 17

[author_by_night]

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I think we'll start seeing more Wii-based games, and I think that they'll be more interactive. But I think it'll be a fairly gradual progression - fifteen years ago I think it was PlayStation everyone wanted, although I could be wrong. Fifteen years that, I'm not sure what the gaming companies were but I know Super Mario Brothers was pretty popular, amongst others. And even then there were a lot of computer games, and I think that we'll see more and more computer-based games and fewer and fewer regular hand controller games, again with the exception of the Wii. And maybe even the Wii will stop being as popular.

I also think that along with being more interactive, we'll see more "real world" games where people do everyday tasks with various dramatic twists, rather than pure fantasy/action.

Comments

[nightfall404.livejournal.com]

I think you're likely right. Now it seems that the technology is available to let us do 3D, motion detection and augmented reality properly, it would seem logical that would be the way things would go.

They predicte this in the early '90s but attempts at implementation just tended to make people motion sick.

Also bear in mind what the age of the average gamer is going to be in 15 years.

[scionofgrace.livejournal.com]

Fifteen years ago, if I recall correctly, we were still in the Nintendo vs. Sega wars, with XBox on the horizon. PC and Mac-based games were taking off - I particularly remember the rise of the Sims series. (I was a big fan of SimCity 3000!)

I agree: I definitely think Wii-style interactive games are going to be the majority for awhile. They're just so intuitive! Also, MMORPGs have reached their peak, but have a while to go before they fade away.