Games Nostradamus

I recently wrote an article for a fairly obscure Video Games blog. There were several questions that they asked me to respond to and one of them was to comment on where I thought video games were heading in the next 5 to 10 years. For convenience the next 2 posts contain copies of the original articel.

Firstly, I was surprised by how intensely I got involved in writing what should only have been a few words on the topic.

Secondly I was even more surprised to see how widely my views were distributed once they were published.

At first I was amused that so many games websites carried their edits of the same article…anyone would think I had a PR team working round the clock to get this much publicity, sadly not. Then I started to realise that the games industry seriously lacks a hard core of people who look at the appropriate technology trends, the business, the history of the industry and combine this with current and predicted consumer trends to create any sort of long term vision for the industry. There are plenty of few folks who enjoy producing forecasts based on current sales patterns, but they rarely extend their thinking beyond a 2 to 3 year time line horizon. That’s why I believe that my few words received so much attention…they were filling a void.

That’s why I’ve decided to start this blog, so that I and other people I know in the games industry can have a forum to air thought provoking ideas about the long term trends and the future of this $25B industry ! I hope to provoke debate and inspire further thought and discussion on the key topics.

Welcome to Games Nostradamus.