In the year two thousaaand...

...PC gaming will die, because PCs don't have enough JPRGs and fighting games that most people want to play, like Final Fantasy 15 and Tekken 8.

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/7.398618-Deep-Silver-Apologizes-for-Mutilated-Dead-Island-Torso

10-20 years is pretty far off.

I think that in 5-10 years Linux and Android will start becoming successful gaming OS's, with a wide variety of both console and PC style games available for them.

I think that wireless game streaming will become a common idea, with your gaming being streamed to your TV, personal screen or Google Glass style display.

Hopefully that would go hand in hand with a standard for controller support, so even "smart TV's" (based on Android or another Linux variant) will support gaming out of the box (assuming you buy a controller).

I think that game streaming and wearable displays will help MMO gaming survive and flourish (with a model not much different than the current "freemium" model).

There's a chance we'll think of Nintendo the same way we think about Sega.

O_O

I think we all need to gather round, wherever you roam, and admit that the waters around you have grown.

And accept it that soon you'll be drenched to the bone
if your time to you is worth savin'.

Then you better start swimmin' or you'll sink like a stone

For the times they are a-changin'

Thats not all: http://www.destructoid.com/the-biggest-videogame-controversies-of-2012-240957.phtml

Scroll down to the last thing he says.

For gaming, I'd guess that in ten years console gaming will start gravitating more towards enforced mulitplayer, where you're automatically hooked up to the internet and don't even get the option for single-player endeavors. It'll pander exclusively to the types of people who currently throw large, boisterous superbowl parties and paint themselves at sporting events. High end graphics, linear "story mode" gameplay with a focus on beating the crap out of each other, because the replayability factor is a lot higher in multiplayer games. Basically COD clones and MMOs.

The gamers who aren't into the MMO or online FPS scene will probably gravitate more towards indie games if they haven't already, where the online mandate isn't so enforced and USB controllers with a PC are the de facto platform. That, or handhelds, unless handhelds start adopting headsets and catering to dudebros too. The indie scene will therefore become a lot less indie and maybe even spawn a new line of gaming hardware specific to gamers who want a bigger variety available to them without the kind of content limitations the current AAA gaming industry puts on the gaming market.

Mobile gaming will become huge but Zynga-style money farming will be something to contend with unless a veritable army of potential customers step in and call bull on them between now and then.

For movies, I think cinema prices will keep inflating, but eventually Blu-Ray or whatever the home viewing format of the day will be (probably some kind of download) will end up released along with the theatrical run. Cheaper cinema chains will shut down entirely and going to see a movie in theaters will be a serious event, like going to an opera. Not sure about 3D, that could swing either way unless they fix it so you don't need glasses for it, like the 3DS but on a larger scale. It's awkward right now if you wear glasses already and have to put more glasses over your glasses.

Ah yes, Bobby D said it best!

Hmm, I see the point. Sexism itself in the gaming community has always existed, but the problem is now much more visible now that people are talking about it, and it's brought about some aggression it seems. It's disheartening to see how many dudes are in the opinion that if something isn't a problem for them, it shouldn't be a problem for anybody else either.

A bit ironically the gaming community wants games to be taken seriously like any other media, but at the same time they don't want it to grow up and become something that could be taken seriously. It's not just sexism either. Say, how maturely do war games deal with war?

Well, Compan of Heroes and Brothers in Arms seem to have pretty much nailed it (to the level of war movies, at least)

Huh. Times are indeed changing.

Well not really, we still have Call of Duty and Medal of Honor which depict war as place where heroes get created, as opposed to the terrible hellhole it actually is.

As opposed to that, Brothers in Arms shows death and despair, and Company of Heroes even lets you play a German campaign, which follows a story of two german officers, depicting them as actual humans as opposed to 'animals who kill jews!' I really liked that.

I guess it says something when even that could be called some sort of progress.

See the edit. Better yet, play those games.

THIS. this is really the only thing that's fundamentally changed in gaming during the last 20 years.

today there is an overwhelmingly negative outlook on all things gaming. every new announcement, every new release is met with what is mostly baseless negativism. gamers' first reaction these days is almost always negative, for no particular reason as far as i can tell.

it used to be different. people welcomed new releases, liked new games and new features. the outlook was - in general - much more positive.

the whole thing has already reached ridiculous proportions. when StarCraft 2 came out, Blizzard was universally acclaimed as the champion of PC gaming. then Diablo 3 came out. first, it's endgame was (rightly) criticised. this eventually resulted in a shitstorm of previously unknown proportions, for no real reason. all of a sudden, all of Diablo 3 was considered shit. but it didn't stop there. now StarCraft 2 had apparently already been shit, and Blizzard itself is now shit.

this is PC gaming 2013. and you wonder why major publishers have been focusing on console development during the last 8 years. we've brought this upon ourselves. today the PC gaming community i utterly unlikable, and nobody is going to develop anything for us as long as it remains this way.