The New Year Beckons!
Bye bye 2010....your end is nigh!
Word of the Year: Austerity
Time's Man of the Year: Facebook's Zuckerberg
People magazine's Woman of the Year: Sandra Bullock
Not sure what Other Things from 2010 made special lists. Lady Gaga, the iPad, Twitter, the Snuggie?
How will you ring in the New Year? Any predictions for 2011?
<I might be in Philly for a Mummers Parade http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mummers_Parade if the weather holds out and nobody is sick.>
I don't usually make predictions. But what the heck, why not.
I predict a big competition between technology providers and user platforms that will be all about incorporating technology. Plus 3-D and/or holographic innovation. Wii will die, unless they can get rid of holding the controller like Kinect. X-Box and Play Station will die, unless they can keep up with the new kids. Smart phones will be so much smarter, they'll replace the iPad and e-readers. Smart phones will get a bit bigger, or have telescoping screens and keyboards, and replace a whole generation of cell phones and net books and digital cameras.
3-D won't need funny paper user-glasses. It will still be new and experimental, but 3-D will be more like holograms emitted from the device itself, for anyone to see. It will start with small games or apps on smart phones and grow from there. We'll see new cars with transparent GPS maps imbedded in our windshield, looking like 3-D with fractile mirrors (or something).
People will begin to demand that one smart phone does everything, from phone calls to playing games and watching movies, to managing internet banking and teleconferencing videos, and isn't tied to a designated service provider or bundling services. The phone itself will be perfected and serve as the shell, for new applications and downloads (we won't have to buy a new phone just to get the new technology).
Cable and satellite tv will experience confusion, crises, mergers and acquisitions. There'll be a bunch of international patent law suits, and suing over intellectual property. Actors and movie producers, musicians and recording labels, authors and publishers won't know what hit them. It'll be a good time to be a technology geek, or a litigating attorney.
Another (kinda creepy) prediction: some parent somewhere will decide to have their little kid's ears pierced with a GPS tracking device embedded in the earrings. It'll look like regular jewelry, and their child won't even know. That way, they can track their child even if they've lost their cell phone or back pack. Rather like what we do now with our pets being 'chipped'.
Everything has been predicted before, yeah I know. Whatever, laugh all you want. I was feeling bored.Originally Posted by Ominous Gamer
Where's your prediction, OG?
I'm not predicting the death of the Wii, PS3, and Xbox 360. Thats for sure.
Also predicting that 3D tech won't catch on until glasses free tech hits the livingroom, I predict serious (madeup bullshit) problems ahead that will bring internet bandwidth caps to the US, net neutrality problems, and prolong the overdue "death" of physical media.
Ok so I predicted beyond 2011. I really do think that people will get fed up much faster with buying new expensive machinery that only hosts certain things, only to turn around next year and wish they'd waited. The Gameboy model only worked so long, and it changed pretty fast. They were able to milk billions of dollars from kids and parents, but not so much these days. I think people will get much more picky and demanding in the future about spending money, and will want "multi-tools" they can get in one device that won't be obsolete next year.I'm not predicting the death of the Wii, PS3, and Xbox 360. Thats for sure.
the 360 and PS3 are both 8-10 year devices. If they followed the same refresh rate as previous consoles we would already have the new machines. The 360 is already over 5 years old, and is moving past (for a while now) being only a game console, especially since developers are getting vocal about it holding back game progress.
I think the problems you are describing are why the current business models on smartphones will hold back major fleshed out gaming progress on those platforms.
They're only 8-10 year devices because they cost so damn much at the outset. We use the X-Box 360 for movies and more, but the Play Station is dormant. Portability is a big thing now---my kids would rather use their cell phone for everything. If they could play X-Box live on a smart phone, the white box would be dormant too, along with the PlayStation (and Gameboy and DVD player).
Actually, the PS3 gets more action than our DVD player these days. The Blu-ray is what sold us over a XBox. That and everyone else we knew had an Xbox at the time; so we could mooch off of them.
But it seems our PS3 caused jealousy. 3 of our XBox junkie friends bought PS3s since we've gotten ours.
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