Video games "predictions" that haven't aged well

[elia925-6]

The future zeldas would look like this

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arHNcSMXaBk

 

[Pacing Tape]

All games on GOG are DRM free and you can just dl the offline installer and put it on a flashdrive.



View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_fLowozCrE

I don't like CDPR very much anymore, but GOG is undeniably fantastic and as far as I can tell the only mainstream non-DRM launcher. It's also got loads of older games that come preloaded with patches that allow them to run on newer Windows versions with significantly less issue.

 

[Boxerdog]

I don't like CDPR very much anymore, but GOG is undeniably fantastic and as far as I can tell the only mainstream non-DRM launcher. It's also got loads of older games that come preloaded with patches that allow them to run on newer Windows versions with significantly less issue.

CDRP Literally only made 1 good game (witcher 1), but I support them Simply because of their opposition to drm and the tech tentacles over everything.
It sucks that they will curate what games are kosher or not over politics and dumb shit, their "curation" its pretty arbitrable but those ones i just get it straight from the developer. Ideally all games would come straight from the developers website but if i had to choose between steam and gog on windows i would pick gog for stuff i want to share/keep it form being modified.

Their curation is a joke, I don't know what kinda of brain damaged pole thought DESU vns and animu menus was acceptable to show up when filtering for RPGs



On topic This used to be memed as if it was supposed to be the "best" version of re4 before it got landlocked to latin america. People really thought it was gonna be awesome.


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBh-vBFeegs

I had gamers friends of mine who actually believed that OUYA would kill home consoles from bigger companies. While I expected it to be another failure, I never expected it to be THAT awful that it can't even play SNES emulators properly.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dC8h3kntQ0

 

[Rams969]

Virtual reality was always supposed to be the real future of gaming and humanity in the XXI century, people in the 90s thought that in a few years we were all going to be hooked in our virtual reality sets without controllers, televisions or screens, you could saw this predictions in movies like the The Lawnmower Man or Matrix, the virtual world taking over the real one seemed inevitable.

Decades later is just a niche thing a few people have but is not widespread at all, the mayority just play in their computer or consoles. Maybe in a few decades Virtual Reality may become totally widespread like the 90s predicted, but I don't think at least in this century, if technology keeps advancing at this pace.

 

[Vetusomaru]

"The ps3 has no games"
While it was true at some point the ps3 had by far the best exclusives of that gen including demons and Fat Princess

The only PS3 exclusives I like are Odin's Sphere remaster and Dragon's Crown. And still Atlus hasn't ported them to Switch and Steam.

 

[Vetusomaru]

Playstation will be dead in 2 years!!!! -Dec 11, 1997​

This usenet thread is proof that while times change, the basics of internet discourse are timeless.

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Reminds me the "PCs will replace consoles" I was hearing a lot from PC magazines journos at late '90s and early 2000s.

 

[Vetusomaru]

Decades later is just a niche thing a few people have but is not widespread at all, the mayority just play in their computer or consoles.

Not exactly niche but yeah, it's mostly used for gaming. And still as a gimmick gaming toy to show off and play for a while and later get dust at a corner. Also don't forget that virtual reality gaming is also a thing the last 10-15 years at theme parks and arcades that mostly attracts kids and still they'll only play with them a few times and then get bored with it and never play with them again.

Speaking for computers, it's ironic that the majority of VR chat users don't even use VR accessories, especially since it's not a requirement (thankfully). And don't forget Zuckerberg's colossal fiasco with Facebook Metaverse that was mocked by everyone except journalist shills.

 

[Rams969]

Not exactly niche but yeah, it's mostly used for gaming. And still as a gimmick gaming toy to show off and play for a while and later get dust at a corner. Also don't forget that virtual reality gaming is also a thing the last 10-15 years at theme parks and arcades that mostly attracts kids and still they'll only play with them a few times and then get bored with it and never play with them again.

Virtual reality seems very cool, but the requirements to play with it are just too much for some people because you need a lot of money just to get everthing you need, then you need to have a big empty space to play and not trip over your stuff and you have to remember that playing VR is a very stresing physical exercise wich is not very appealing to do when you just want to relax after work. At the end of the day playing in a computer or a TV is much more comfortable for the mayority of people, I would love to try it one day but sometimes you just wanna sit down and have fun.

Speaking for computers, it's ironic that the majority of VR chat users don't even use VR accessories, especially since it's not a requirement (thankfully). And don't forget Zuckerberg's colossal fiasco with Facebook Metaverse that was mocked by everyone except journalist shills.

Metaverse was really funny because it was a total downgrade of VR Chat but much more expensive and with ugly souless avatars without legs. Even Second Life was better than Metaverse at being a simulation of real life.
And most important, you can't be Kermit the Frog with two katanas smoking a blunt in Metaverse

 

[Vetusomaru]

Virtual reality seems very cool, but the requirements to play with it are just too much for some people because you need a lot of money just to get everthing you need, then you need to have a big empty space to play and not trip over your stuff

You remind me Xbox Kinect's advertisements with all them taking place on huge empty living rooms that only rich people can afford. Also Kinect was an overpriced Eye Toy, with Eye Toy being released during PS2 era, with it being bundled with Eye Toy Play at the same price with a regular PS2 game and with it being much easier to be used, which more responsible controls and much funnier gameplay. It's weird that Eye Toy didn't had a mainstream success despite being released by Sony.

 

[Alone]

Remember when they claimed that smartphone games are the future and that they would replace video games consoles?

No

 

[Vetusomaru]

Forbes: "Why Apple Could Kill The Nintendo DS"

Why Apple Could Kill The Nintendo DS

archived 27 Apr 2023 16:14:05 UTC

archive.is

AHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Here are the most downloaded iPhone games at 2008 that would kill DS:

Apple reveals most downloaded iPhone games of 2008

Apple has revealed the top ten most downloaded games on the iPhone for 2008, ...

arstechnica.com

No

smartphones will kill consoles - Google Search

Also there were many retards who claimed that Nintendo should start focusing at smartphones in order to survive.