The Games Industry on What Gaming Might Be Like in 2030
Representatives from Xbox, Capcom, Blizzard, Rovio, Square Enix, SEGA and more peer into their crystal balls. Ten years ago, IGN asked a group of games industry members to predict what gaming might look like in 2020 . We recently revisited those predictions to see how accurate they were. And […]
Ten years ago, IGN asked a group of games industry members to predict what gaming might look like in 2020. We recently revisited those predictions to see how accurate they were. And now, we’ve assembled a new panel of more than 30 key figures in gaming to tell us about what they think the games industry and video games might be like in 2030. (Be sure to also check out what the panel thought were the biggest changes in gaming in the last decade and the best games of the last decade.)Each respondent answered three questions:
Streaming will be the unifying technology that allows everybody to access all the content that they want on any screen that they want. I think it is clearly a direction of travel for the games industry powered by ubiquity of network connectivity. Whether it’s 5G, ultra-wide band fiber, or satellite, there are going to be a number of enabling technologies that quickly make this a reality.
