I was sitting at work last week talking to a work friend of mine. You know Work Friend, it's someone you like well enough at work but you wouldn't hang out with otherwise. We were talking about console versus pc games. During the conversation I had an epiphany about the future of gaming.
He's not a fan of pc games. He's likes his games on a specialized machine that plugs into his television that requires you manipulate a series of buttons instead of playing his games on a specialized machine that plugs into a smaller tv that requires you to manipulate a series of buttons.
No, seriously, this guy insists that console gaming is superior to PC games because of the dedicated platform. While I agree that this is marginally true- games are more stable in an environment such as a console can offer over the ever changing registry of Windows. Games within the last five or so years have been remarkably stable on even the most temperamental of machines.
I went on to talk about how pc gaming gives your a lot more variety, flight sims, rpg's, and not to mention mmo, and on line play. And until recently the online play has been the sole playground of the pc. But now the PS, Xbox, and the Wii are all online capable with a healthy array of various games from flight sims, race games, and even the mmorpg.
As he pointed out to me- the console has now become the equal to the pc in online gaming. He said, "In fact, I don't think there's even a need to own a pc anymore. All the best games are on the consoles."
And that's when it hit me. The future of online game play is on your cell phone. More and more phones are capable of high speed Internet browsing. More and more phones are capable of running complex java and php scripts.
Within the next 3 years you are gong to see an online game for a mobile phone that allows them to compete against a browser game for a pc or even a browser like game for a console. with a few years after that, you will see a rpg game for the phone that can interact with pc's, mac's, and consoles. And within 5 years I think we will see action games that are already appearing on the Nintendo DS platforms that are wifi capable.
The future is on your cell phone, and you'll have to pause from launching your fleet to take this call.
He's not a fan of pc games. He's likes his games on a specialized machine that plugs into his television that requires you manipulate a series of buttons instead of playing his games on a specialized machine that plugs into a smaller tv that requires you to manipulate a series of buttons.
No, seriously, this guy insists that console gaming is superior to PC games because of the dedicated platform. While I agree that this is marginally true- games are more stable in an environment such as a console can offer over the ever changing registry of Windows. Games within the last five or so years have been remarkably stable on even the most temperamental of machines.
I went on to talk about how pc gaming gives your a lot more variety, flight sims, rpg's, and not to mention mmo, and on line play. And until recently the online play has been the sole playground of the pc. But now the PS, Xbox, and the Wii are all online capable with a healthy array of various games from flight sims, race games, and even the mmorpg.
As he pointed out to me- the console has now become the equal to the pc in online gaming. He said, "In fact, I don't think there's even a need to own a pc anymore. All the best games are on the consoles."
And that's when it hit me. The future of online game play is on your cell phone. More and more phones are capable of high speed Internet browsing. More and more phones are capable of running complex java and php scripts.
Within the next 3 years you are gong to see an online game for a mobile phone that allows them to compete against a browser game for a pc or even a browser like game for a console. with a few years after that, you will see a rpg game for the phone that can interact with pc's, mac's, and consoles. And within 5 years I think we will see action games that are already appearing on the Nintendo DS platforms that are wifi capable.
The future is on your cell phone, and you'll have to pause from launching your fleet to take this call.
