What will happen to gaming in 12 years time?

Modern Warfare 3? Halo 4? Discuss.
 
Anybody who makes 2012 jokes will be kindly banned by CitizenKane and be shot through the head with a lightsaber pistol.

We will be controlling real people like in the movie Gamer.

2012, a crappy game based on a a crappy movie.
Game developers will start focusing more and more on graphics to appease the graphic whores, as there  forces strengthen games will start looking more and more realistic, until virtual reality becomes real, but at this point gamers will have become so lazy that most games eature just staring at a screen as the story progresses with no interactivity at all, this business flops and the line between games and movies will disappear along with games, thus the gaming world will come to an end in the year 2012. but a small rebel group intent on getting the games back will infultrate the military, no longer a challange duo to the lazyness that the fall of gaming has brought. they will arm nuclear missles and theaten to fire them if they don't get a good game. they will be sent Uncharted 4, one of the years most hyped movies. Inraged by this they lunch the nuke/ the fallout has cause people to start working again, but it also causes a collaopse of a centeralise goverment. Thus making the most realistic game ever, fallout 5, where you will actually have to survive a post apocalyptic waste land.
 
i really hope you don't have that kind of pull with the mod... or a light-saber pistol

Man in 1997 all I could think about is how awesome Sega's stuff was going to be in the future...  12 years will bring so many changes to gaming that it's impossible for anyone to even begin to speculate.
 
I'd say by that time barring any major upsets in the world or the games industry (both of which are very likely), noone will care about graphics anymore by that time.  It won't even be considered in game reviews because if you want a game that's basically perfectly realistic looking, you can play that.  People will only care if stuff looks cool or interesting.
 
That's about all I can predict, I don't know if motion controls will improve to the point where they've really caught on, or what companies / platforms will be around or anything like that.

Oh, I can tell you through the use of my time machines. A few years before 2021, Konami's gonna declare war on the Moon because of some copyright laws or whatever. This being the Video Game Kingdom, I accept their challenge, and a war between my Kingdom and the United Federation of Game Developers begins. It doesn't end until 2025, when all members of the UFGD sign my "Stop it Now" Treaty. If they break the treaty (IE go back to exploiting the shit out of a certain genre, like is happening right now with music games), I blow up the Earth. That's what happens to video games.

Sega will do what nintendon't.
 
I'm calling it here.

All I hope for in the future of video games is that I will still enjoy playing them.

"All I hope for in the future of video games is that I will still enjoy playing them. "

Gamers all over the world will kill themselves because new are stupid cocksucking games ...

Hover boards my friends

Dynasty Warriors 18 ....... just think about that...  o.0

"@CitizenKane said:

"All I hope for in the future of video games is that I will still enjoy playing them. "

This right here. "

I edited out this post because I just woke up and didn't think enough about my reply. I am just saying I like the direction of the first crysis game. Big levels, lots of physics and almost photorealistic graphics. You probally don't know what I mean by saying bigger levels, I mean the recreation of real life scalewise. In real life everything has high resolution and perfect textures and rarely looks semi realistic. I'll show an example of what I like games to look like in 12 years time, I want every game to look like this. Anything less is unacceptable.
 

The Dreamcast 2 will come out, Fingers cross though. I also hope that I will still enjoy games and that video games won't suck. also, The Virtual boy 2 will actually be virtual reality with bad graphics.

" Probally most physics, bigger levels, better textures, more realistic, like crysis on very high settings for every game, no more semi realistic art design, rather more technical graphics imo, sort of like modern warfare 2, yet more realistic. "

Hopefully be better >.>

They won't matter to me at all.

" @CitizenKane said:

"All I hope for in the future of video games is that I will still enjoy playing them. "

This right here. "

" All I hope for in the future of video games is that I will still enjoy playing them. "

FFXX 3
But honestly, I think we'll have body game implementation recognition with good controls :). Or decent virtual tech.

" Modern Warfare 3? Halo 4? Discuss.  Anybody who makes 2012 jokes will be kindly banned by CitizenKane and be shot through the head with a lightsaber pistol. "

Only 3 games per system per cycle due to extremely long/costly developement.  The three titles will be: Madden, COD: The Iraq/Iran/Isreal clusterfuck, and My little Pony Extreme Edition#5. 

Well, if graphics cards are progressing at their current average rate, about 15-20% per year, we'll see almost a 6-fold increase in graphical power over the next 12 years. This will approximately mean that even low-level to mainstream computers will be able to run Crysis at max settings, while PC users will be able to run games an order of magnitude (x10) more demanding and max settings, with consoles somewhere in between. 

" @HitmanAgent47 said:

" Probally most physics, bigger levels, better textures, more realistic, like crysis on very high settings for every game, no more semi realistic art design, rather more technical graphics imo, sort of like modern warfare 2, yet more realistic. "

Wow, set your bar a little low there, don't you think? This is 12 years we're talking.  "

Ninetendo releases the N.E.S. "Neuro Entertainment System..." NeuroStation is released by Sony a year later when a deal between Nintendo and Sony falls apart. Microsoft follows suit with XNeuroX.

I'm just worried that the worlds in games will become more enjoyable than the real world. I'd prefer real jungles to still be around rather than photorealistic virtual ones.
 
On a less morbid note, I imagine there will be a point where graphics will kind of level off a bit. And then everything will go 3-d, and SHIT WILL GET CRAZY.

Eh... Crysis still has a ways to go before I'd consider it photo-realistic. 
 
I remember 13 years ago when I played Super Mario 64 for the first time. I thought nothing could top it graphically. I had no clue what games would look like now. I think it's hard to really comprehend what games will look like in 12 years until we get there. Then we can look back and laugh at the guy who said all games will look like Crysis.

Stereoscopic TVs.

PS9 early.

DX16 
Most games will be in 3D  
Portable Gaming Devices will support 3D
Most games will implement a camera in someway  
Actual Water Physics 
Digital Distribution will top Retail Dsitribution 
Apple will release a console

" Modern Warfare 3? Halo 4? Discuss.  Anybody who makes 2012 jokes will be kindly banned by CitizenKane and be shot through the head with a lightsaber pistol. "

V.R. becomes a reality for every household.  Geeks and nerds appear dorkier than ever. 

 Oh my god-I just thought of something. Microsoft are making Terminators to kill us all.
 Think about it, Project Natal will be able to track what we do...right? Now, it is pretty obvious they are feeding this in to some gigantic robot machine that will respond to anything we do gamewisse. And, as we all know, that most of the gaming world play shooters, the robot will develop a machine gun...and kill us all.
 DO NOT BUY HALO 4. IT WILL END THE WORLD. 

Motion sensing will rule the gaming world. It will be against the law to make a game that doesn't include at least 14 pointless motion sensing gimmicks. Also like on TV in 12 years, the only genre the law will permit is 'reality game' much like reality TV, just that it's a game. If that's the future for gaming, I hope the world DOES end in 2012!

Consoles will become PC's.

Crysis will look like crap in 12 years everyone thought pong was amazing when it first came out same as early 3d same as HD now the next two jumps are going to be just stupidly awesome looking.

I read in some magazine a few years ago that they were experimenting with the use of nano machines.  Something along the lines of buying a one time injection of these nano machines which are also hooked up wirelessly to some kind of network thing.  You just mentally turn them on and you are instantly immersed into a game.  Virtual reality style, kind of like the matrix?  I don't know what kind of time frame they put on it but nano technology is going to become pretty huge medically and such and if its safe to put these machines in your body(not saying it isn't creepy as fuck) then why not test out games that way. 

12 YEARS time eh? It's weird that you posted this because I was going to do a 'what will vgames be like in 1000 years' thread

" 12 YEARS time eh? It's weird that you posted this because I was going to do a 'what will vgames be like in 1000 years' thread "

" 12 YEARS time eh? It's weird that you posted this because I was going to do a 'what will vgames be like in 1000 years' thread "

Sega will make one last attempt at the console war and succeed causing Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft to develop third party titles for there system.

11 years ago: 
 

  Also: 12 years? 12 for the randomness? "