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The Greatest Console in History
Urian
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40 years from now, when either gaming is dead and gone, or we've moved on to stuff ike the PS9, what do you think will be remembered as the greatest gaming console ever made? Perhaps the Sega Genesis or NES for spawning console gaming, or maybe the PS2 for being the (from what I know) the best selling and most widely adopted console ever? Some may say the Wii for it's innovation.
Also, what do you think gaming will be like in 40 years, if it still exists? This has probably been asked before, but I don't remember the last time the thread has been made.
Also, what do you think gaming will be like in 40 years, if it still exists? This has probably been asked before, but I don't remember the last time the thread has been made.
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This current generation is probably the last reasonably good gaming generation we'll have, after that it'll be nothing but viral spambots killing each other and data mining and slowly returning consoles to proprietary formats playable only on the hardware and software systems of the megacorps that own them and in turn your lives.
Sega Genesis for lyff yo.
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I think people will look towards the NES and the SNES, or maybe the lasting power of the PS2. But I find it hard to imagine what gaming will be like because I see future consoles becoming something entirely diferent, mainly thanks to the Wii
As for 40 years from now, I think things will be more integrated. TV shows, the internet and games will have merged together, so a series will be presented both in interactive and viewing formats and you will be able to switch between.
Reality TV is bad enough, but if some merging of interactive TV, games & internet is the future of entertainment, shoot me now, before I have 120 channels of "Cocks, Dicks, LOL".
And you know what, SNES games have the greatest music.
Actually, I think personally it's the OXbox. But I'll get cut down for that round these parts.
As for gaming in 40 years, I personally think this might be the last generation of consoles that use a conventional controller. The PS started analogue sticks, the Wii started motion sensing, and what comes in the future will really be just as big a leap as those to innovations. I don't think the future is all doom and gloom. The best stuff is yet to come and I'm looking forward to it.
But if I don't have a holodeck in 40 years, heads are gonna roll.:P
'The [Console I had as a child/teenager] was the bestest most awesome ever and all the rest of you are crazy for thinking otherwise!'
Nostalgia for the win?
Clearly I dont mean everything will be made by the user. I just mean that games and TV shows will be merged in a much closer way, and delivered over the Internet. I imagine there will be extensive user generated content too, but the companies arent going away.
No other gaming platform has so many great games!
No. The gameboy has the greatest music. The original big grey DMG. Mega Man 2, Double Dragon 2, Castlevania etc. Not to mention the whole chipscene produced by the two great trackers Nanoloop and Little Sound Dj.
If not, I guess the Snes for it's amazing library of games.
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What is it about the 16-bit era that gave us so many great soundtracks? I honestly can't remember any post 16-bit game standing out bar SotN, but the SNES and Mega Drive, hell I could recall tunes from at least 20 great sounding games right now.
Perhaps the limited sound quality/range forced the composers to really try hard to come up with memorable scores, whereas today's backing tracks have the luxury of being just like movies, and honestly, who remembers them once you've left the theater?
If we're counting handhelds as well it would probably go the DS.
If the Wii hits it's stride and lives up to its potential it could easily overtake all of the above for me personally. I never could have imagined having that much fun playing a simple sports game or simply replaying a lot of the great classics (esp. legally), but it's still a wait and see deal for now.
The N64 had the first analog stick.
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After Nintendo did already on the N64
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Can't disagree with this.
Yeah, whatever. Considering I didn't even elaborate on what barriers I meant I'm afraid I have to call you a fanboy. I'm giving an opinion, not an argument.
Limed for truth. Without the NES, there is a strong chance that we wouldn't be talking on this board today...
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which came out a year after the PS?
Which didn't initially have analog sticks.
i don't know why we're arguing over this, anyway.
The original PS controller did not have analogue sticks; it was basically a SNES controller with two extra shoulder buttons, the dual-shock was designed after Nintendo announced their controller and rumble pack. It was actually quite blatant and the Nintendo fanboys went on about it for some time.
Anyway I think video-games will progress in a manner similar to film; we’re a ways away from photo-realistic representation, that will be one of the major dividing lines in the history of gaming, everything before that will be seen as a blur. Of the current systems I think the original Atari will be of note, the NES will have a place in the books and the wii for radically changing the interface. How much do you know about movie studios from the 60’s? That’s how future gamers are going to look at us.
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No there isn't. The pc in every home would have seen to that. We might be talking about slightly different games and with a greater emphasis on computer games but the idea that without the NES we'd be without video games is rather, well preposterous.
The wii won't be more then a footnote in gaming history at best. Waggle is hardly revolutionary especially on the time scale we're talking about. I agree though that the dividing line will be at photo realistic (then holographic). People for the most part won't give a damn what came before then.
No, he said "we wouldn't be talking on this board today." Perhaps Mike and Jerry would never have met if not for their common ground in the NES. Butterfly effect and all that.
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That's kinda what I meant when I said blur; but to those looking at the history of gaming the wii will come up. The waggle is just part of what the wii does and so far the potential is underused; developers are still testing the waters. You’re right when you say it will be a footnote but it’s still an important advancement; like going from the spinning jenny http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spinning_jenny to the water frame http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_frame.
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