My Time

With the development of the Wii being a huge success and essentially ‘creating’ casual gamers everywhere, the industry is under pressure from its own audience; yet I would also consider the Wii a blessing too. It has allowed more casual and ‘quirky’ games to emerge like Wii Music and Wii Fit. Because, let’s face it the big contenders of Europe and Americas ‘hardcore’ gamer market is a draw between the ‘FPS’ and the ‘3rd PS’; generally anything with a gun will do.
Game development costs have soared since 8-bit times, so now development companies have to get money from publishing houses to bankroll their endeavours, this is a strain because publishing houses don’t really care about making the game because they love it, they just want to invest in something they’re sure they’ll get a big return on; which is why they kill all of the quirky ideas in stillbirth. Games also take way longer too finished before they’re ready for sale, which is ok as long as it’s worth the wait. Publishing houses in my opinion on the main reason the market is flooded with sequels to Need for Speed etc.
Technology and its advances play a huge roll here, with the 360 and PS3 in an ‘I’m better than you’ war while the Wii steals the cookies (customers). No matter how great the Ps3 is I’ve heard it’s a pain to program for, which is why I think it’s just a box filled with magic made by the elves.
On my college course we briefly looked into the game interfaces of the future, brain power etc. But I will be honest now, stuff like the Wiimote is cool but if you have another console like a 360 you won’t use the Wii half as much as you’d like and the casual gamers and families that buy the thing will use it while the new games are out and then get bored, as long as they buy games it’s ok but if they’re like me who has never justified buying a Wii game since launch its bad.
I would like more realistic graphics, I understand the ‘uncanny valley’ theory but think of it this way ‘you either cross it completely or fall’ meaning; if you get it so realistic that it’s not noticeable that they aren’t human to the point that the audience doesn’t mind then you’ve crossed the valley.
I saw a spoof advert for ‘PlayStation 9’ which was a glass sphere that contained millions of nanomachines that connected to your nerve system or something.
It sounds interesting, is quite possible by the 9th version of the console, we already have magic after all.