[fluffhead]

sorry guys, but im almost wetting my pants here thinking about the following, which in 5 years (after my 5063 is sold off, and im making bank as a biiomedical engineer) :


playing some type of battielfield 42 type game (hopefully on fiber optic )with graphics that will dwarf those of unreal 3 coming out next year (if you havent seen the 161mb CES video, check it out, droool...) at 1920x1080 on a true 70" 1080p DLP (or who knows what) hdtv powered by dual core 7ghz 64bit processors with 10gig ram and some super super super sick 1.5gb video card and 7.1 surround, probably which will all be had for around $4000 (including puter) .



excuse me while i finish myself off.



gotta love the future

 

[Scotty L]

As long as I have MMX technology I'll be happy.

 

[taintedzodiac]

It's rather easy to predict how we'll be gaming in a mere five years...


You'll be playing on either (Xbox 2/PS3/N5) or a computer with games that are relative to the current pc advantage.


That is concrete, and will be exactly what we'll be playing on in five years, sans new hardware lines.

 

[rdank]

In 5 years we'll be playing consoles that are a small step above computer games of today (XBOX Next, PS3, Revolution) and we'll have computers that are a small step above these consoles. Also, in 5 years, there should be talk about new consoles in development for release in a year or two.

 

[Dean Martin]

Another question is, once we get to graphics realism, let's say where graphics look like movie quality, what happens next?

Once games catch up to reality where do we go from there?

 

[chris5977]

INHO, the single most important development in computing [and therefore gaming] in the next five years will be Wimax.


WiMax is essentially the speed of WiFi with the coverage of cell phone service. The entire nation will be blanketed in fast cheap broadband. Intel is planning on making Wimax a standard feature in motherboards.


Of course, consoles will have Wimax as well. This will mean that Steam like content delivery services will be much more common. Perhaps there will be no more physical media. Perhaps Windows will have a Steam type platform built into it. We'll see!

 

[mrpjc]

Quote:

Originally posted by Dean Martin Another question is, once we get to graphics realism, let's say where graphics look like movie quality, what happens next? Once games catch up to reality where do we go from there?

back to the beermeister for another draft....

 

[mastahkaz]

Quote:

Originally posted by Dean Martin Another question is, once we get to graphics realism, let's say where graphics look like movie quality, what happens next? Once games catch up to reality where do we go from there?

We rip out our dedicated home theaters and convert the room into a Holodeck.

 

[taintedzodiac]

Quote:

Originally posted by chris5977 INHO, the single most important development in computing [and therefore gaming] in the next five years will be Wimax. WiMax is essentially the speed of WiFi with the coverage of cell phone service. The entire nation will be blanketed in fast cheap broadband. Intel is planning on making Wimax a standard feature in motherboards. Of course, consoles will have Wimax as well. This will mean that Steam like content delivery services will be much more common. Perhaps there will be no more physical media. Perhaps Windows will have a Steam type platform built into it. We'll see!

Oh how I wish it were that easy to fully deploy WiMax.


It's going to take a bit longer than five years to effectively deploy WiMax to the masses. Current laws that regulate public services will make sure of that. Additionally, conflicting carrier standards of practice will prevent full integration as they always do.


For example, in many cities in the U.S., it is against current laws for the local government to deploy any form of public wireless access. The local telco's and/or communication service providers are the only ones allowed to deploy commercial-quality services. There goes the cheap part.


Realistically, and this is just a guess, I would say that wide area wireless (it probably won't be WiMax because we need a LOT more bandwidth than it could ever provide, and future technologies will provide that) in a mass-coverage (and cheap!) form is a good 7-10 years out. I certainly am with the camp that hopes it gets here asap.


On a side note, also remember that we need a lot of legislation to be determined before we just open up a wide area public (or private) network. What happens the first time someone grabs an unautorized device (or worse, steals someone else's authorized one) and uploads a virulent payload into the network that is accessed by so many people?

 

[mobius]

With my walker? Nah, just jivin' ya'. I'm only 40.


I don't care what I'm gaming on as long as it's fun and it keeps me young at heart.


BTW:


> U3 engine graphics =


Scary good AI would be nice to!!!

 

[Geise]

I hope 1080p becomes such a standardized resolution that everything uses it. I'm talking TV, game consoles, PC OS's and games and movies. If it does become the standard (as I can see it), people would no longer care about running PC games in higher resolutions (than 1080p) but rather buying better GPU's for antialiasing tasks and of course framerates. The only thing your display would need to be able to do is support high refresh rates for 1080p (mainly for PC use). One big, sharp display for everything

 

[Automatonjohn]

It's not so much how we'll be playing in 5 years but where: outer space.

 

[mobius]

I could live with that.

 

[rmcgirr83]

Quote:

Originally posted by mastahkaz We rip out our dedicated home theaters and convert the room into a Holodeck.

Damn beat me to it.


OT: Mrpjc (pat) whre have you been. Missing you on Live!!

 

[mrpjc]

Quote:

Originally posted by rmcgirr83 Damn beat me to it. OT: Mrpjc (pat) whre have you been. Missing you on Live!!

lol, sorry mcgir, finishing off oddworld, almost done. i've been on for a game or two, but, not at my normal gaming time.


i'll be back on soon, promise you'll have another target for your reticle!


back on topic!

 

[fluffhead]

yea, i am really hoping that 1080p becomes a standard, im not holding out on broadcast , but with hd-dvd formats, console games, and especially HTPC, 1080p is my holy grail. I absolutely love my hlp at 1280x720, but i cant help but drool when i look at screenshots of hl2 and far cry at 1600x1200 with aa/af juiced. theres a big jump in image quality as resolution increases, as u all know. luckily, 12x7 is great for right now, but thinking about Unreal 3 with 1920 horizontal pixels....oh man. desktop at 1080p will be nice too (will probably have to get a 60"+ set to be able to read the text at couch distance), i love extra desktop real estate. i have a dell laptop at 1600x1050 widescreen and it has a very nice feel.


i figured 5 years will be probably around the next big engine from half life, or at least near the end of the Unreal 3 engine's lifespan. so what we'll be looking at as bleeding edge in 5 years will make Unreal 3 look outdated. that in itself is pretty mindblowing for me, compounded with the fact that it will be at super high ridiculous resolution with some filtering too. will just have to have top of the line video.


also, longhorn, with what seems to be a pretty slick gui, should be hot on a widescreen mega resolution monitor.


about the wimax interent, i hadnt heard of it. sounds like a great future plan to ensure everyone has access to broadband. i still want my fiber optic, im sure MY definition of fast broadband then will be something over 10mbs/down , 3mb/s up, at least. i dont think that will be happeining at ANY over the air frequency bandwidth. but definitely a great hope to get bb out to the people in the sticks who cant get it. that in itself will be a pretty historically important landmark.


how about i invest what little money i have in some low risk funds, and me wife and i cryogentically frozen and come out of thaw in either 2010 or 2015, then soon as i get out, find some L , and then head to Tokyo. talk about a mind fark

 

[Geise]

Right now I think 1600x1200 is very sharp for gaming; especially when anti-aliased well. True 1080p resolution has 153600 more pixels than 1600x1200 (if I did the simple math right). If 1080p becomes a standard (for most media), I honestly think people will no longer care about higher resolutions.


This is because all of the PC game resolution freaks (like me) will eventually purchase big 1080p hdtvs, realise that 1080p is a kick ass resolution on such a large display, and abandon smaller computer specific displays in favor of gaming and computing on the much larger (and possibly sharper) display (even if the smaller one offers a higher resolution). If that becomes the trend, we may see a plateau in the demand for higher resolutions (just as we're seeing a plateau in videogame graphics), and we'll concentrate more on making the best of the 1080 resolution (as in anti-aliasing and framerates as I mentioned).


I know I just rehashed my previous post, but this is something I really want to see happen (and I think it probably will ) Just gotta friggin' wait...

 

[spinoza_43221]

I hate to be a wet blanket but I severly doubt the next generation of games will be in 1080p. I know it seems really reasonable and it would be great and all but at this point I have felt this way in the past about technologies and it always took 5x longer to actually happen.


My prediction is that this next generation of consoles wont do 1080p maybe their will be 3 or 4 games released a year but on the average developers just wont create 1080p games. I hope Im wrong but my feeling is that technology people have eyes that are way bigger than what is coming anytime soon.


I hope Im wrong.

 

[fluffhead]

good point, consoles probably wont be doing 1080p anytime soon, but im more concerned with computer games, which likely will do that resolution, either out of the box or thru changing data files.

it may not be something that is readily available to the masses (a 1080p set wouldnt be based on price, aswould the top of the line gpu) but bleeding edge users like us will realize 1080p half life 3 when it comes out.. people are already playing hl2 on interlaced 1080 screens .. which brings up a question... hl2 at 720p at 60fps has got to look better than how you rptv guys play at 1777x1000 30fps , right ? u must not be able to read text, and can u see shimmer ?

 

[Geise]

I don't expect the next console generation to do 1080p. I don't even expect 1080p tv's to be widely affordable withing the next few years. I just hope that it will all happen eventually.