The Future of Gaming

[Buccaneer]

This is from one of the biggest game industry execs, Bing Roberts (helped build EA).

The future of gaming must be untethered from client side chips, and go for the biggest social potential. Social networks on the web and on mobile are activating a billion users, not just the hundreds of millions we had settled on for the traditional videogame business. As Scott Forstall of Apple once commented on the videogame market, “10 million sellers are just a niche to us. A billion users, now that’s a market.”

It's funny, for a long time we have talking about the "Death of PC Gaming", only to realize that it would simply become one of the many platforms to access Social Gaming. In the future, there will no patience or tolerance for long, complex games (which will be relegated to the niche of us older cranks). All games will have to be accessible to all mediums, whether mobile or not, because it will be about connectivity and interacting on simplistic levels. Civilization will not be exempt.

 

[Adam7Eight]

This is from one of the biggest game industry execs, Bing Roberts (helped build EA).



It's funny, for a long time we have talking about the "Death of PC Gaming", only to realize that it would simply become one of the many platforms to access Social Gaming. In the future, there will no patience or tolerance for long, complex games (which will be relegated to the niche of us older cranks). All games will have to be accessible to all mediums, whether mobile or not, because it will be about connectivity and interacting on simplistic levels. Civilization will not be exempt.

Won't be much longer and all games will have an in-game Facebook button.

 

[Moss]

Moderator Action: Since not really Civ related, but all-games related, moved.

 

[Bad Brett]

Won't be much longer and all games will have an in-game Facebook button.

Eventually Facebook will die.

I think this will make room for a lot of open source games. I read that OpenTTD, a open source clone of Transport Tycoon, have 50,000-200,000 players every month. That's pretty impressive for a game from 1995.

 

[Maniacal]

PC Gaming has been happily dying since, what? The 1980s?

Yeah, it isn't going away and hasn't been going away.