The future.

If you consider have far the gaming industry has come in 5 decades it’s exciting to think what will happen in the next 5 decades. As our technology continues to improve in leaps and bounds we’ll soon have the power to do what we can’t in real life and experience it in high definition.
The way the gaming industry will evolve is like how every other form of entertainment will go, in fact games, music, TV and movies will probably merge into one media. Perhaps a game where one can listen to live radio and watch the news in a virtual reality world. Virtual reality , I suspect will be available in the near future and have games incorporate that. Perhaps games and consoles will evolve into a 4D media, incorporating the 5 senses instead of just sight and sound. Smellovision was rumoured to also happen in the near future – perhaps in racing games we’ll be able to smell the burnt tires and petrol.
With the Next-gen consoles on their way I think it’s safe to say that the inventive uses that the Next gen consoles have to offer (the wireless controllers, the Wii remote, online play etc.) will continue through to the successors of the new consoles.
Much like fashion, ideas of the old will creep back in at one point and perhaps all of the old 80’s games of the time will appear once more but in high definition. We have the technology to create some amazing games but do with have the idea’s to back it all with.
The iconic figures of our youth, I feel will still be with us in the near future; Sonic, Mario, Solid Snake, Lara , Pikachu and Zelda. I think there still will be hundreds of game based around them. In fact the only thing that can survive a nuclear holocaust are cockroaches and Mario.