Peter Molyneux en Richard Garriott en Will Wright zijn geen kleine jongens in de gamesindustrie. Daarom is het ook wel interessant om een aantal van hun voorspellingen voor dit jaar te lezen. Ze hebben op de website van BBC namelijk een aantal voorspellingen gedaan met betrekking op de games in 2009. Nieuwe spellen en de kredietcrisis zijn enkele punten die aan bod komen. Hieronder lees je hun voorspellingen, te beginnen bij Peter Molyneux:
Next year, well, it’s all looking a bit dry. All the triple A titles came out this Christmas and while there is stuff in 2010 we can look forward to, off the top of my head I cannot think of anything next year that really excites me.
Will Wright:
[…] we’re going to see more connected games – more social networking rather than just multiplayer. What’s more, they are going to be more fractal in nature; how you interact with the game will depend not only on what you play (360 vs mobile) but where you play.
Paul Barnett,
As for next year, it’s going to be a year of pain for all the big labels and a continuing fight between games defining themselves as ‘art’, ‘design’ and ‘entertainment’.
The games industry is going to go through the pain the music industry went through when the traditional way of making and selling their products goes through a radical shift. The route to the customer is undefined and income streams are uncertain. Large firms have a history of not being responsive (and being fearful) of change – the DRM fiasco (with Spore) is a classic example of that.
I expect to see some large studios go under and some big name titles fail.
