"In fact, when asked to identify the most important advance in game play over the last 10 years, 90% of both PC and console players said graphics. But in terms of onscreen display, consider where we now stand. In a business where artists and game designers were always forced to compromise—how many pixels to do this? How much shading can I afford for that?—the compromises are all but gone. If you can see it or imagine it, you can probably put it on screen—in convincing fashion. From this point forward, graphical advances may be far more theorhetical than observable. Just like a consumer hooking up a progressive scan dvd player to a non-progressive scan tv, better technology may be there—but you can't see it."
Wow!
"Some of those answers are updated with an ESA study released in June. First, among those who do play games online, there is an overwhelming preference to do so on their PC's, as opposed to their game consoles. Second, despite some rosy predictions, growth in online gaming is relatively flat year-on-year. Third, the favorite genres are puzzle, board and trivia games…not action fare. And fourth, less than 8 percent are paying to play online."
Wow again. I still want online but I think a lot of people out there only want online and probably never use it to make themselves feel better about the machine they have.
"A few quick examples. I imagine there might be someone out there who once upon a time after a few too many beers dropped a few too many quarters in Pac-Man and pong machines in a local watering hole. But those same games never significantly drove sales of any home game system.
Why does Flight Simulator seem to work on PC…but have little or no value anywhere else? Tetris was a phenomenal success on Game Boy…but a lesser success elsewhere."
Wow! Its amazing he talked about that since I always wondered why.
"On the issue of older gamers, we're aiming squarely at those who clearly put game play first…those who are most hungry for a new approach. The earliest adopters for DS will be those who are also the freest thinkers. The trendsetters. The same people, I guess you could say, who were first to snap up their blackberries and iPods."
Wow cubed! I feel so much better about myself!
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