The current CEO of Epic Games and creator of the first Unreal Engine, Tim Sweeney, hints or implies there might be one last major console generation before the mobile market claims dominance over the video game industry.
He implied the console market has around 6-8 more years left of its dominance or around 1-2 more generations of consoles before mobile devices can both match and surpass anything capable on a console.
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The big difference between a console and a tablet is the console can consume 100 or 200 watts of power, while the tablet consumes one or two or three or four watts. That's really the limiting factor of performance there. Just on the grounds of the laws of physics, you'd have to think it is three to four hardware generations, or six to eight years before the current highest end desktop or console performance you can achieve becomes achievable on tablets. To me, that really defines the role of consoles in the world. They define the highest and most impressive graphics experience anywhere in the industry. They focus on delivering teraflops of computing performance in a way that a portable device or an economical computer really couldn't, despite sheer focus on that one aspect.
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He feels the future of the industry might be following Apple's way once the mobile market claims dominance. This would mean a lot more quicker advancements and "generations" replacing the slower life cycles of consoles.
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Apple is by far the leading phone provider in terms of profits or any other objective measure of how well they are doing. A company in that position could just rest on their laurels and keep making more and more profit from each new phone. Apple doesn't take that approach. Rather, they push the technology forward as fast, or faster than possible to go from lower resolution displays.
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He also feels web browsers in devices will become a new standard in gaming and touted how even the Unreal Engine 3 was able to be modified to work on current web browsers.
http://kotaku.com/5893209/creator-of...ft-in-them-yet
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Daily Recap:
1) Nintendo announces they are giving away free Augmented Reality cards for the upcoming Kid Icarus Uprising game on the 3DS to all Club Nintendo members who apply for the cards.
http://kidicarus.nintendo.com/uprisi....html#giveaway
2) Sega teases Skies of Arcadia and Shenmue 1 will be the next set of Dreamcast games to be getting the downloadable HD treatment for XBLA and PSN although no actual date was announced for either game.
http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=141231
3) The current developers for the upcoming South Park RPG game, Obsidian, announced they have laid off between 20-30 employees with the biggest cuts results in an unannounced project being cancelled and a few from the current South Park RPG team.
http://www.giantbomb.com/news/report...canceled/4033/