Where do you see gaming in 5 years?

[Kouen Hasuki]

Simple topic where do you see gaming in 5 years?

Me I think the gimmicks that are out there will have worn off (at least I hope so) maybe Nintendo will still be clinging to the Wii U, but the other 2 non casual machines will have dropped there Move and Kenetic by this point.

I would reckon there you be a mass revolt against Ubisoft and others that would try to use the Online Passport one time use code system and the system would have been removed by this time

360 would have an external blu-ray drive as games was taking far too much space and finally gave in to getting sony licencing for the drive, I also see that the 360 will have been through another hardware revision yet still doesnt fix the issues in the core design

Nintendo will have abandoned the 3DS and gone back to the drawing board making another DS to complement the DS, DS Lite, DSi and DSi XL

And Apple will have tried to make a break into portable gaming rivaling the PS Vita

These are my thoughts on what I think will happen what about you lot?

[Nemkoon]

Onlive will beat Steam in popularity.
That is all.

[Kouen Hasuki]

Onlive will beat Steam in popularity.
That is all.

Doubt it, lol

Trolling fail btw

[Supreme Warrior]

we will see the same exact Crap, who can make the game with the best graphics, or the most retarded gimmick.

pretty much why I mainly play oldies nowadays.

[Nemkoon]

Trolling? Really.
Think about it.
With OnLive and a decent internet connection, you can play new games on max settings with older comps.
With Steam, the newer games must be play and lower settings, if at all, on older comps.

[Inferno.]

Games will be downloadable only. Or if they haven't gone download only by then they'll ALL require an online pass to be able to get to the main menu.

[Kouen Hasuki]

Games will be downloadable only. Or if they haven't gone download only by then they'll ALL require an online pass to be able to get to the main menu.

I Dunno I think console gamers would revolt against that, or at least I hope so since thats some of the reason why console gamers choose consoles

Trolling? Really.
Think about it.
With OnLive and a decent internet connection, you can play new games on max settings with older comps.
With Steam, the newer games must be play and lower settings, if at all, on older comps.

I Think OnLive has its place, but beat a service thats been in place for many more years and has built a great reputation and a hugely more vast selection of games (70-90 vs 1300 as of Feb of this year) is rather over estimating things.

Do I think Onlive will Pick up, Yea.
Do I think Onlive will be popular with people that have very bad computers or no computer, yea
Do I think Onlive will in 5 years become the number one online gaming store, no

[Slacker Magician]

Games will be downloadable only. Or if they haven't gone download only by then they'll ALL require an online pass to be able to get to the main menu.

I stop buying games and only pirate on that day.

[luffy4]

I stop buying games and only pirate on that day.

I 100% agree, however it may be inevitable...

[screwed]

I stop buying games and only pirate on that day.

then get ready, its happening. every major publisher wants it that way. If they could do it today, they would.
The only holding, say Sony back. Is the retailers, if they go only digital with their games, they loose the support of retail stores like gamestop, who will then stop selling their hardware.
So.. its tricky right now. But its going to be all digital in the future, there is no denying it. Just have to drop your familiarity with discs. Movies will be the same way, I doubt there will be a new technology after Blu-ray. Microsoft does not want to use Sony's format for obvious reason, and they are not going to invent a new one just for themselves, they tried. Doesnt work, Microsoft will be on the front of all thing going digital.

[luffy4]

then get ready, its happening. every major publisher wants it that way. If they could do it today, they would.
The only holding, say Sony back. Is the retailers, if they go only digital with their games, they loose the support of retail stores like gamestop, who will then stop selling their hardware.
So.. its tricky right now. But its going to be all digital in the future, there is no denying it. Just have to drop your familiarity with discs. Movies will be the same way, I doubt there will be a new technology after Blu-ray. Microsoft does not want to use Sony's format for obvious reason, and they are not going to invent a new one just for themselves, they tried. Doesnt work, Microsoft will be on the front of all thing going digital.

Sony isn't the inventor of blueray, they just took full advantage of it when it was first created

[Cookie Monster]

Sony isn't the inventor of blueray, they just took full advantage of it when it was first created

What? It was one of the companies who developed it.

[Constipated Rat]

Don't know if my vision will take place within 5yrs, but somewhere between the next 5-10yrs I see PC gaming dead and Windows in general dead. Reason being all the portable "pad thingie's"(these will start making a huge mark over the coming years) as well as internet TV's and other things like super-uber smart phones, they will bring the Windows pc market to its death. Then with Mac and Linux now making an ongoing mark, they will be the the choice of OS for the "1" pc we will have, but use vaguely in the household... So computer gaming as a whole will be pointless due to the power of the consoles.(the Consoles will also have modern PC-like features, like proper superfast browsers and media players)

Consoles will also use a proprietary disk drive with about 500gb game disks. Panasonic or someone mentioned this a while ago, someone will pick up on it, and consoles will license these and obliterate piracy.... Nintendo will lose a lot of ground and Sony too, they will both team up again MS and EA(For an East vs West console war)

Smartphone gaming will obliterate the handhelds of today(this will take place maybe by about 10 yrs, but I believe it WILL happen))

We will still be using a controller like the ones of today. The gimmick stuff will die out.

[TheRealSpiders]

Probably the same as now, just more shiny and with more DRM.

[Aeolus Aeneas]

Hopefully getting hit by another crash so we can just start fresh.