Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!news From: dave@lunar1.demon.co.uk (David Wagner) Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.freetalk.english Subject: Next generation games? Date: Thu, 4 Mar 1999 22:22:20 -0000 Organization: Zygote Commando Lines: 23 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: lunar1.demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: MicroPlanet Gravity v2.10 Well, if all the hype is to be believed, the playstations successor will be a rather amazing beast. Its graphics capabilities seem to be getting close to being as good as you can get on normal (NTSC or PAL) TV's, with plenty of CPU power left to spare. So, what will programmers do with all those free processor cycles? Anyone care to venture a guess on the next revolution in gaming or what they would like to see as the next revolution? Currently we are pretty much in the graphics revolution, but that will probably change in the near future as graphics become as good as can be displayed. Personally, I see two main areas for games to improve. AI, which, lets be honest, is pretty rubbish in all games (although that is not the programmers fault. It is a really complex area and still a pretty young field of research.) and control mechanisms for games. There could be interesting times ahead... bye... Dave ["If you go down to the woods today... you might stumble on something your government doesn't want you to see"]