Thread:Deathstalker666/@comment-1915529-20150523192506/@comment-1915529-20150629201112

The reason Activision releases a slightly rehashed Call of Duty game every year is because there dumb people stupid enough to pay £40 every year for the same game. For Activision it is a secure and constant source of revenue. After all that is all it comes down to in the end, money.

However CoD has a balanced supply/demand equation that makes it financially acceptable for a ‘new’ game to come out every year. Same with Assassins Creed. But what I first mentioned would also be financially acceptable for developers and publishers. If they can get someone to spend a grand up front, it won’t matter if they don’t spend any more money for another decade, by which time the sequel can be released.

But then we come to what you said Death. It’s true about how technology can become very cheap as it gets old. Which means in a decade or two we will be able to do something along the same lines of my idea but it would not cost thousands. This is of course because in ten years you will be able to get a handheld/phone that has more power than a PS4. So games could be built in their own state of the art computer but it would not cost much because shrinking powerful CPUs is already a well used thing, never mind in ten years! Furthermore these computers would not have to be watered down from what is capable of the time because it would become cheap.

However this is based on games being played on a monitor/TV that the computer is plugged into. An art that is decades in the making so of course it will become cheap to make state of the art ‘conventional computers’. However gaming will of course go into new places. VR is already taking off and then what after that? While the conventional computer/monitor based games will not cost thousands, new types of gaming will.

They will probably have the games the size of a CD case anyway so it would look the same now going through your collection. Of course these CD case sized computers will have 500TB processors with a fusion cooling system. They will also probably make each computer a source of energy to power your washing machines and kettles. Until of course washing machines and kettles get their own fusion reactors and can power themselves.

But the problem with fusion powered kettles is that it will reduce the demand for oil and the people at the top of the oil industry are too rich and too powerful to allow their fortune to go down. But that’s a different story about the future.