Hand helds are the future!!!

Well the game developers conference was interesting, with one major thing sticking out in my mind being the Onlive!

I could see what the future held, why sell people disks, when they can "share" such disks in and around anyone they know.
The whole pirate scene with torrents, irc and all manor of "sharing tools" will never be silenced, the idea of hacking and breaking the rules is really enticing, weve all heard of "sticking it to the man" thats what it all kinda boils down too.

So the idea of disks and consoles are where pirating was born, the more advanced the security, the more advanced the console, the more thrill and excitement these bedroom hackers get from lol'ing at Microshit and Sony etc. The fustration they must feel when there prize and joy, which costs them so much to develope, is playing megadrive games ^_^ (love my psp XD)

So the obvious solution really is the buisness that we ourselves as game artists are going towards, soft products!

Why make a disk, then have to make one after the other for every consumer who requests that product, when software can be made once, and sold indefinatly via the internuts.

So the principle behind Onlive is we dont touch the console, we dont even touch the game, you no longer buy the actual game really, nor do you buy the console, you buy access.

Its all sitting at the other end of the cable but your account lets you access whatever, gone are the days of console only games being a bastard, you wona play both xbox and ps3, sure, its fine, but something tells me that it wont be that easy once this all kicks off.

But the fun thoughts behind this is what this Onlive will effect.

Consoles -
Well up until now the idea has been to make something that will play hard, play well, and look suuuuuuupppper SHINY to wrangle the consumer into buying their product

"ooo we can do this, on an they cant on theres"
and so started the fanboy rivalry, weve all seen it, an lol'ed hard at the patheticness

and the biggest concern, being cost efficient to produce and distribute (thats what you were meant to be thinking of Mr and Mrs PS3 developement team)

So now one of the biggest elements will fall off the table, thats alot of £ to put somewhere else, these "consoles" if we will call them that from now on, can be super machines if they want,
they dont have to be pretty,
they dont have to fit under your tv,
they dont even require much thort when it comes to cost effectivness, you can now buy the bigger shitter looking components, who the hells gona see them?

So no doubt the generation preceeding the Official kick off of this kind of hardware will shit pure gold onto your screne ^_^


Developers -
Weve all heard the percentages, developers get bout 8% i think it was from a game, so yeah they will make profit generally, but its not really anything to brag about.

They tread a fine line, and the most plausable way to stay alive is to stay safe, safe being FPS drivel and shitty other things which have been made to death...O BUT DONT SAY THAT, THIS FPS NOW HAS BULLET BENDING, THATS SO MUCH DIFFERENT TO BULLET TIME HONEST!!!!!

So.....could this be........inventive games........ARE GONA HAPPEN :O :O
Its going to be TOTAL SHIT

Sorry but with most things you aint gona start shitting gold right away, its on our shoulders to go in with new minds and help this industry, can you imagine what these developers will look like.

Bleeding fingers, ghostly face, knowing exactly how to make FPS drivel and the rest of the tosh the public ask for......then magically

YOUR FREE, YOU CAN BE CREATIVE AGAIN

*insert blank faces*
(millyseconds later)

Aliens with 7 arms instead of 6

* MONDOOOO OSLAP *

Itl be exactly the same as every 1st year organic/reef/other character project, the usual ideas, coming out in their usual ways, but BUT BUT BUT itl get there in the end, I just hope they realise how to make good fun exciting games in my life time

I double hope i get to make them XD

Hand Helds-

I recently purchased a psp, probably for the wrong reasons, but damn am I happy I got it!!!
Technology gets better this much by that time yada yada yada weve all heard alot about it, weve all definatly seen it, "TOP OF THE RANGE LAPTOP..(counts 2 seconds) THE NEW TOP OF THE RANGE LAPTOP"

The psp can emulate all the way up to n64 and megadrive.....*does shifty eyes* not sure how i know that but IT CAN!!!

So no doubt when the psp2 or whatever comes out itl be in league with Xbox an ps2, now the graphics an such on them aint bad, but itl look awesome on a handheld.

So is this the future of "consoles"?

WIth Onlive technically killing the Home console market, will all that shiny development money go into hand helds, will the extra money from games sales on Onlive go into hand helds?

With hand helds also having Wifi, and every other shop and or store having free Wifi, doesnt take a genious to link Onlive and hand helds also :P donwload the game, get a weeks activation or sumet = oooo

Weve came to the world in an awkward stage regarding the games industry.

Graphics was the thing that made a game up until a few years ago, then it just became more an more pathetic, games arent even really seen as art, being a game art student = rolled eyes an looks of disgust.

Will there be day when our ninja max skills will get chicks XD??"?!?!?

I think when Onlive and co start up, and real creativity hits the developers, that is our time to shine, to be seen as artists, weve got to shake off all this baggage we have lumberd with our "genre" of work.

and wev all gotta hack our psps to play mario........ ^_^