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Crystal Balling the future of video games

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The future of videogaming is driven almost solely by technological innovation and not by creative endeavour. The reason is simple. For all the recent talk of the importance of the story, there are only seven basic plots anyway, and chances are, Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft are across all seven. In all likelihood you have probably already played all seven too! So in ten years time will videogaming resemble the videogaming of today? Will videogaming evolve in response to the wants and wishes of gamers? Will we get the videogame experience we demand or will the videogaming landscape be formed by the emerging technologies of the day? Sorry to burst your bubble, but your videogaming future won’t be the one you wish for and nor will it be the one the masses clamour for either. We’ll get what ‘they’ give us and it’s already happening.

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