Film director and Boom Blox creator Stephen Spielberg strongly believes that consoles are going to be made extinct before too long, just like old ”videogame parlours”.
The sudden re-emergence of 3D technology will be proceeded by the ‘redevelopment’ of virtual reality, which ”experimentally” was around in the 1980’s. The E.T. man is PC gamer.
”Now we’re all playing at home and someday we’ll be playing directly on our TV sets, bypassing all of the platforms,” Spielberg tells The Guardian.
He predicts that all consoles and other gaming hardware will go ”the way of the Dodo bird”.
”In the short term I would love to start seeing 3D games developed where with a good pair of glasses we get a real three-dimensional experience in front of an appropriate monitor that is designed just for 3D,” he said.
”And after that, will certainly be virtual reality, which just like 3D came and went in the 1950s, and now it’s here to stay in movies.”
”I really think virtual reality, which experimentally came and went in the eighties, is going to be redeveloped, just like 3D is being redeveloped today, and that’s going to be the new platform for our gaming future.” We can only drool over the possible media/political ruckus that awaits the first ever Rockstar Games’ virtual reality title - then we’re in the ‘future’.
Elsewhere the Hollywood man said he’s ”a PC game player more than anything else” but did have the occasional sojourn to Xbox 360 and PS3.
”I get more into the microphysics of gaming, especially on the PC. I’m closer to the screen, I look for detail, I notice things more easily. The Wii platform which I adore is more of a macro experience, you know.” Currently Spielberg has just wrapped up his second Boom Blox title with EA.
Source: Eurogamer
