In the future (about 5-10 years from now) all computers,servers,routers and internet phones will be Photonic (the official term for what we know as optronics)
you see, you can cram a hellovalotta more computing power into a smaller space using photonics, it's faster and uses less energy, and produces less heat.
the Future is photonic, as now the current internet system is overloading and uses a lot of energy, and producing a pretty substantial amount of CO2.
so soon all optronics in FL will have to be replaced with atomic computers, as it wont be anything special.
It'd be cool if we could get more Fables for the PC, but Peter made it clear that Fable 2 and 3 are gonna be X360/PS3 exclusive.
PC gaming's huge hurdle is piracy, but groups like Steam help buoy that. I love steam's anti-piracy function, it works wonders. A bit annoying for those with slower internet conections, but it keeps smaller game developers afloat, because their product isn't pirated to pieces.
You are playing merely a mod here. And most of you here are addicted to it.
Tell me when you're going to have that on your consoles, free and ran by players just like you and me.
p.s. Oh yes, we heard about PC gaming doomed back when PSX was released. And then some earlier too. Basically at every generation of consoles the media went about "PC gaming dead" buzz ****...
Quote:In the future (about 5-10 years from now) all computers,servers,routers and internet phones will be Photonic (the official term for what we know as optronics)
And we'll all be in flying cars running on hopes and rainbows. It may be the wave of the future, but 5-10 years...
Anyway, the death of PC gaming has been heralded since...well...PCs started playing games. Nintendo's NES was going to kill PC gaming. The SuperNintendo/Genesis were going to put that nail in the coffin. PS2 and XBox were the end of the computer game.
Please.
Every evolutionary leap of console technology brings the doomsayers of the PC gaming community out of their troll-hovels. Guess what, we're all still grabbing our mouse to play a seven-year-old game. Or WoW. Or Eve. PC gaming isn't going anywhere.
Except you only rent them and it's them owning your data essentially. Didn't pay the bill in time? Oh well, you don't get the access to your movies/games/documents/whatever!
Call me an old fart, but frankly I'd like my hardware be right beside me, making my winter days cozy and nice. Not to mention not giving a damn about availability of internet. I still get to play games, to do my job and everything completely offline.
Besides, how you're going to do something that requires extremely low latency between your input device and visual result on the screen? Like digital painting for instance. People think internet is gonna keep up with that? Dream on! Watching Blu-ray HD over internet? Playing UT3? So not only you've got clients and servers, you also got that extra latency between your home desktop and that remote desktop. It doesn't matter how fast those things would be, it's what you've got there between your home console and their "virtual PC" server, chances you've got something that can handle it without making a player notice... And say that nice widescreen display, with resolution like 1440x900 to have it running on 60fps with lossless image quality transmitted through your typical broadband internet connection and having no noticeable visual hiccups?! Right...
Future of home computing... Yeah yeah, whatever. Mark here F-bomb (signed by George Carlin) drop.
May be that gonna do for some office stuff, but hey we've got googledoc and such things around already. Anything "real-time" stuff is gonna choke.
It's the technical aspects and crap network quality where plenty ISPs sit on old garbage hardware, broken network stuff and a whole lot of other things. It's nice to dream about that "remote PC" stuff, sounds nice on paper, but just on paper, cause reality comes biting hard all that. Andrew, no offense to you buddy, but it's really not coming soon. And not cause of technology, in fact it's been there for years already, it's nothing new really, but it's the middle-man issue, i.e. data streaming service - the state of internet ISPs and how fast and reliable they can handle it. First you'd gotta fix that "middle-man" problem there, doesn't sound that simple and nice as in those presentations you've seen, eh?
Well, the stuff they showed us were more along the SAN server principle for local lans... that was awesome but far from worth the money! very very expensive and my team reckons it will date very fast.
So in the near future I don't see it happening, but certainly later!
I also had my reserves about the consequences of late or non payment too as you mention... I kinda figured that at a certain point, such things would become free like the rest of the internet. Sort of like shops in a mall. You can use the mall for free but the shops pay rent.
I imagine bandwidth issues will go away somewhere in the future but I know what you are saying... the present issues do not allow for limitless fun.
I haz an Xbox... It feels like I'm cheating on my first love - The PC.
Still... I look forward to the next level of gaming entertainment, whatever it may be!
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