Technology columnist John C. Dvorak's latest opinion article in PC Mag is a sensational rant against the gaming industry.
He foresees the collapse of the business very soon based pretty much around the idea that games have hardly changed since the invention of the first-person-shooter, and when the technical advances in gaming machines hit the level of photo-realistic graphics, there will be nothing else to sustain growth:
The business is going to attempt to sustain growth and creativity by making game players buy newer and newer machines. Computer gaming has always been sustained by never-ending improvements in resolution and realism. But once we get to photorealism, what is going to sustain growth?
That time is drawing near. We are already getting pre-hype for the PlayStation 3 and the Xbox 2, as well as the new Nintendo. All this will do is make the visuals more lifelike and the blood and gore more realistic and nauseating. While the kids who are used to this "progress" may not be put off by it, newcomers may be repulsed and skip these new generations of machines altogether.
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