The gaming world is bustling with tech news just about everyday. The competition is heavy, especially with the upcoming gaming consoles everyone is waiting for.
So E3, the latest celebration of future technology in gaming, has come and gone, and we’re clamouring full of tech news and sneak previews of new games. And now a new console generation is gearing up to start, the excitement is building as to what new technology the games industry will bring us – when they’re not squabbling over pre-owned games and DRM management like kids fighting over Pokemon cards in the playground. But here’s the thing – how much further can gaming push technology? And will it always be for the best of the actual gaming itself?
Let’s start with the Xbox One, the new console that has pretty much dominated tech news lately – for all the wrong reasons, and reasons that don’t actually have much to do with future technology. Now that they’ve desperately backtracked faster than a politician who’s car is stuck in reverse gear, let’s actually investigate the future tech underneath the bonnet. Not much, actually. Except that the Kinect will be improved, with less delay from voice/physical command to action occurring onscreen after many complaints of faulty body scanning leaving people stuck in the sofa with the controller lodged in their diaphragm. Motion control is a piece of future technology that has real potential but between this and the Wii it hasn’t quite hit its full potential yet – it’ll be interesting to keep an eye on the tech news pages to see how this develops.
The Playstation 4 has been dominating tech news for all the right reasons – mainly by saying ‘you know all that the Xbox One said it would do? Yeah, not that.’ And that was that, guarenteed column inches in tech news pages worldwide. As for actual future technology, it’s stingier – the Playstation Move doesn’t appear to be going anywhere, if you’ll forgive the pun, but the improved graphics technology will probably be enough to appease gamers – especially when you include the lower price tag.
If we’re talking proper future technology, look no further than the Oculus Rift – the stuff of sci-fi film legend. A headset immersing you in a virtual reality world of HD gaming, it may well suffer the same problems as the Kinect and Wii, but as something to grab the attention to tech news writers it did the trick – and why not? It’s a virtual reality sci-fi helmet thing! How cool is that?!
So the future technology of gaming looks fairly healthy, and when the tech news pages stop talking about Sony handing Microsoft a bowel because they just got served, you’ll be able to keep up to date with the latest future technology developments too.