Though we are all stood in awe of the new gaming consoles
and their power/ potential there is still so much more that we are not thinking
about, such as the technology used to create these masterpieces or how far we
have come or the even more important question being where we will go from here.
First let’s take a look at what we had; on November 15th 2001 the
world met the original Xbox. The Xbox was the
first video game console to feature a built-in hard
disk drive, used primarily for storing game saves and
content downloaded from Xbox Live. Though this doesn’t sound like much
to us now with the ability to save our games entirely virtually on to the cloud
this was a massive feature at the time since its main competitor the play
station 1 forced gamers to save on memory cards which proved to be inconvenient.
Before that there was the super Nintendo entertainment system or snes and their
competitor the sega genesis both incredibly loved consoles and each with a
great set of games but fairly equal technology. This brings me to my next
subject in this article being how come we have almost taken a step backwards in
the development department as the consoles of today seem to have a controversy
in comparison.
Now we have the Xbox one
going head to head to head against the PlayStation 4 with the later taking the
lead in sales as this article is being written. Both consoles have their
strengths and weaknesses in the technological department such as the Xbox being
able to use smart glass so that owners can use their phone to enable in game
assistance or the PlayStation using the PSVita as a handheld as the console itself.
But both seem to have held back certain features or even cause horrible
problems for their owners such as the Xbox not allowing owners to check their
hard drive space or the interface being clunky or stuttering. While the PlayStation
has been known to overheat easily and on occasion will show a normal light on
the console but will not show anything on the screen at all which begs the
question of this article.
If gaming consoles of today
are still causing problems for their owners can we be sure that the consoles of
tomorrow will be any different. With new advancements in technology it will only
be a matter of time till someone finds a way to put it into the gaming public’s
greedy little hands. A main possibility being nanotechnology, that’s right! The
tiny robots we have heard so much about have a possibility to be in our own
living room as their potential is almost limitless. Imagine being able to use
your hands as the controller but not use gestures, or your TV screen not being
a screen but a set of tiny projectors to fill your whole room with light. Though
this sounds like the distant future it is entirely possible for this to come
about in as little as 5 years. So let’s all hope that when the next consoles come
around developers and publishers will be able to guarantee they have followed
the consoles of the past and not of today.
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