Console: the next steps
Let’s be honest, the current generation of consoles is barely out of nappies, but already people are beginning to ask the question: what next for consoles?
There have been some naïve suggestions that the current crop (probably excluding Nintendo’s Wii) have provided too much capacity for the poor old game developers to fill, but as anyone with half an interest in these things will tell you, gimmicks are all very well but people want power!
Making assumptions about technology is always a dangerous game, but there are some predictions that you can make about the direction gaming is taking. All three of the big boys – Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and the Wii – are machines built to provide online play, and in the case of the former two – consoles are also doubling as multimedia hubs.
But if you were building a next generation super-gamer, what would you be including? We’ve stuck on our thinking caps and come up with our list, and as ever we’d love to see your suggestions for the kind of machine that would grace your living room.
