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Caltrops predictions for the near future of gaming? by fabio 02/20/2016, 1:01pm PST A crash of both Kickstarter and the mobile/Facebook freemium game market. Nintendo will go the way of Sega. I can't see them lasting another generation. At best they'll put out the next Saturn that will quickly fail. Everyone has caught on that 99% of Wii games are garbage (Wii U has been out for over 3 years now and has only sold half as well as the Gamecube) and phones/tablets have gutted their hold on the portable game market (3DS out for over 4 years and has barely passed 50% of PSP sales). How often do you see kids playing portable Nintendo games compared to 8 years ago? MOBA games will continue to evolve by cutting even more fundamental elements of DotA. LoL got rid of denying. Heroes of the Storm got rid of items and individual levels. The future is going to be stuff like Overwatch, dropping the RTS and RPG elements entirely. The core appeal is playing a huge variety of unique characters and getting to shine with a death blossom ultimate every once in a while. I think the genre thrived in spite of the RTS/RPG crap rather than because of it. Nobody misses any of the stuff cut so far. Possibly this will be the last generation of consoles as we know it? Microsoft is fucked (XBone is tied with Turbograph 16 for sales). Nintendo ran out of steam. PCs have closed the affordability gap, even blowing consoles out of the water once you take into account the massive digital distribution sales. Console makers tried to stay relevant with the home entertainment angle and nobody gave a shit. The consumer market is still dominated by people clueless enough to shop at Gamestop. Once they wise up and discover the concept of a Steam backlog, the whole industry is fucked.

Caltrops predictions for the near future of gaming? by fabio 02/20/2016, 1:01pm PST     The Xbone has sold more units than the 360 had at the same point in its life. by And PS4 has sold almost twice that. 02/20/2016, 3:01pm PST         I can't find one source that supports those numbers. Link? by fabio 02/21/2016, 3:16am PST             http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2016/01/ea-lets-slip NT by You can see the future, not the now 02/21/2016, 8:24am PST                 "at least if EA's CFO is to believed" by fabio 02/21/2016, 9:09am PST                     Yeah, he's probably lying to make himself sound important. by I bet he's not even a real chief. 02/21/2016, 9:29am PST                         Execs never exaggerate performance claims by Gypsy King 02/21/2016, 10:39am PST                             I think you might be using an old version of Google. by An old, cheap, off-brand version. 02/21/2016, 11:48am PST     A crash of ... freemium NT by Wishful thinking? 02/20/2016, 4:17pm PST     All of the gaming geeks I know are buying new hotrod PCs to run their Rifts by Fullofkittens 02/20/2016, 6:53pm PST     In what way is Overwatch a MOBA? by Worm 02/20/2016, 10:08pm PST         Re: In what way is Overwatch a MOBA? by fabio 02/21/2016, 3:32am PST     Next wave MOBAs are looking more like SMITE, will be d-pad friendly by Entropy Stew 02/21/2016, 3:05am PST     I predict that if this graphic comes true at all it will fail horribly. by Ice Cream Jonsey 02/21/2016, 8:44am PST         Additional future prediction: Ubisoft will still not have given up on Uplay NT by fabio 02/21/2016, 8:46am PST             Re: Additional future prediction: Ubisoft will still not have given up on Uplay by Ice Cream Jonsey 02/21/2016, 8:57am PST                 Re: Additional future prediction: Ubisoft will still not have given up on Uplay by fabio 02/21/2016, 9:14am PST                     GOG are still dicks, though. by Mischief Maker 02/21/2016, 11:40am PST                 Re: Additional future prediction: Ubisoft will still not have given up on Uplay by CattleHumper 02/22/2016, 10:07am PST         Re: I predict that if this graphic comes true at all it will fail horribly by Mysterio 02/21/2016, 4:30pm PST         Re: I predict that if this graphic comes true at all it will fail horribly. by laudablepuss 02/22/2016, 7:14am PST             I have a story about this. NT by Fullofkittens 02/22/2016, 2:04pm PST                 Wel what is it! NT by laudablepuss 02/24/2016, 7:04am PST                     OK HERE IT IS (tw: gamer dad story) by Fullofkittens 02/24/2016, 6:06pm PST                         I'm going to need several shots of scotch to get through this, stand by NT by laudablepuss 02/25/2016, 7:19am PST                             Fuck you! NT by Liver 02/25/2016, 8:11am PST                         This is Microsoft. by Ice Cream Jonsey 02/25/2016, 8:57am PST                             Your FREE Windows 10 upgrade is waiting... and waiting... NT by M$ 02/25/2016, 10:43am PST                                 Is the call at this point to stick with 8? NT by fabio 02/25/2016, 11:31am PST                                     I don't know of a compelling reason to jump from 7 to 8 or 10. by Fullofkittens 02/25/2016, 11:41am PST                                         You can turn off most of the bad stuff in Win 10 by Entropy Stew 02/25/2016, 2:11pm PST                                             Yes, use 10. by laudablepuss 02/25/2016, 2:27pm PST     Re: Caltrops predictions for the near future of gaming? by Rafiki 02/21/2016, 8:51pm PST         Re: Caltrops predictions for the near future of gaming? by fabio 02/21/2016, 10:08pm PST             Re: Caltrops predictions for the near future of gaming? by Ice Cream Jonsey 02/21/2016, 11:30pm PST     This generation of VR headsets will flop. NT by Oom Shnibble 02/21/2016, 11:42pm PST         Cardboard will flop NT by Vested Id 02/22/2016, 4:20pm PST     Caltrops predictions for the near future of gaming by skip 02/23/2016, 6:05pm PST     One day all these kids playing Pokemon are going to grow up and become PC gamers NT by 3D Realms Shareholder Meeting, 1998 07/19/2016, 7:54am PDT