But such near-sightedness is not what we’re concerning ourselves with today in this latest edition ofAsk RPS.
We’re looking much further ahead, thanks to this excellent question from MiniMatt.
Will VR become universal?
Will the desktop PC box survive or will we all move over to laptops & steam decks?
Will industry continue to consolidate or fragment?
Get yer nostradamus on and tell us Peter Molyneux’s future.
Probably something smaller or maybe even foldable.
Laptops andSteam Deckswill still be around but even teenier and thinner than they are now.
Ollie:150 years is a long time.
In 150 years, the video game medium will be older than the electrical telegraph is now.
And I think traditional game development will be more or less a thing of the past.
Those lost in the battle are later commemorated in a touching digital tribute, also in Fortnite.
Nvidia release the RTX 790080, which is pretty good but costs too much.
Kiera:The Elder Scrolls 6has finally released.
It has middling reviews.
The very first bit of motion photography, the first example offilm, was less than 150 years ago.
Video games were invented in the 50s.
Stuff changes a whole lot in relatively short spaces of time.
If you enter one of these shops you will feel instantly unwelcome.
The larger games industry will have collapsed like a dying star.
The most popular game isGrand Theft Auto7, Rockstar’s latest release.
One Piece continues at full pelt and no one understands how.
People hated those keyboards.
Alice0:Meet Abigail Warner, a professional 3D character artist in the year 2147.
Her job is to makeMass Effect’s Thane Krios.
Her job is to make only Thane Krios.
Her job is to always make Thane Krios.
The only big-budget games remaining are remakes of ancient games.
These have existed for over a century in a perpetual state of being remade.
Each subsequent Thane has marginally higher polygon and texture budgets to suit marginally newer hardware.
Abigail is a third-generation Thanesmith.
People are just grateful for a job.
The assassin Krios killed Abigail’s father, and his mother before him.
Everyone Abigail meets is excited when they learn of her job.
She found it funny, at first.
Yes, she makes the lizard man people are horny for.
Sometimes, she takes this anger out on Thane with tiny tweaks.
A slightly unflattering jacket cut on one Thane.
A dullness to the eyes of another.
Tiny acts of rebellion proving to herself that she is still alive.
Abigail takes some comfort in knowing Thane’s fictional fate.
Abigail glances at the son brewing in a genepod on her desk.
His tutelage will soon begin.
