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ahofle:
Can't believe no one has mentioned the real reason consoles/PC gaming will never disappear. Controls. Sorry, but there is only so much you can do with a microscopic Dpad or PSP-type 'analog stick' smaller than a dime, or lame accelerometers where you shake the whole screen to do something. In fact, I think that's the reason PC gaming has not been killed by consoles.
Vanguard:
Controls are why phones don't enjoy much more than causal gaming. Playing FPS' on a phone sucks.
ahofle:
--- Quote from: pinballjim on October 13, 2010, 11:05:38 am ---Playing FPS in 2010 sucks, too. Time for some new genres.... and I imagine we'll see some better suited to portable devices.
--- End quote ---
It's not just FPS, pretty much any game where absolute controllers like mice/trackballs can be used is better: RTS, RPG, even games like Zuma/Peggle/World of Goo/etc.
I don't see the point of using a portable device when you don't require portability. Especially given that just about every aspect of it is inferior (and always will be) to larger/less portable hardware of the same generation. Every aspect except portability of course. You can't tell me you prefer surfing the web on an iPhone over a keyboard/mouse + comfortable chair w/armrests + large monitor? I would kill myself if I had to spend hours a day at work holding a small rectangle in front of my face.
Gray_Area:
The fundamentals are truly ubiquitous wireless, peripherals becoming wearables, and cloud environment liberating devices from processing demands. (D/A converters have become pretty inexpensive. The above could likely be helped along if broadcast were [still] analog.) These are developing - just not so much here as in Asia, where the culture is far more mobile and flexibility-minded, and where the youth have much more involvement and say in it.
Howard_Casto:
My 2 cents (or buck and a quater... whatever)
3d tv is almost definately a fad. Here's the deal:
For the longest time, there wasn't much money in tv sales. That isn't to say that there wasn't money to be had, or else companies like sony wouldn't exist, but rather the technology had hit a wall... and other than replacement of old units... there was nothing for the consumer to gain by buying a new tv. Then comes plasma and the game changes. Now you have a tv with a high profit margin and a short lifespan. Tv companies are back in business again! But plasma kind of sucks so it is almost immediately ditched for lcd tvs. So they actually convicne people who just bought a tv to throw it out and buy another tv! Well now they tell us that lcd is crap and they we should buy led tvs and quad pixel tvs, which are essentially the same damn tech. This sort of trickery won't last forever, so they fell back to the old tried and true cinema hustle known as 3d. This is nothing more than a ploy to get us to buy tvs when we don't need them. 3d, no matter how much they improve it, is a crappy display method and over 70% of the population doesn't have adequate depth perception to be able to propely view 3d images anyway. It's a scientific fact recently proven via testing!
See there are two problems with 3d aside from annoying stuff like glasses and lack of content.
1. It isn't 3d, it's stereoscopic imagery. BIG difference. When a camera can shoot an image and obtain a fully skinned 3d render of the scene.. THEN we have 3d... until then we just have a lame gimmick.
2. Generally we don't watch tv alone and we move around (either our bodies or heads) when we watch. For true 3d this just doesn't work. Each viewer needs an individual display that adjusts the image based on your eye level. This is why the 3ds, crude as it may be will be a success while 3d games on the ps3 won't. That isn't to say that the 3d on the 3ds will be very good, but at least nintendo isn't stupid enough to make a 3d wii.
Long story short, yes, 3d tv is a gimmick and no, it won't stick around very long.
Expect most of the population to skip right over it and led tvs to OLED technology.
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