One ring to rule them all

Sometimes i am thinking/fantasizing about the future of gaming, when there will be bluer blu-ray and HD-HD-DVD, I think that what we will find in a game will be a completely different content than what we got used to until now ( next-gen included). first of all I imagine that the real change of huge disk space and powerful processing will obviously upgrade the graphics but the real deal will be possibilities inside the game. A game could start as THE SIMS, you will bring a boy to the world, fight your way in school BULLY style or even TEKKEN style and than fulfil your childhood dream of being a NASCAR driver or a SINGSTAR.

BULLY. Choices and possibilities

all these option are open to us, the gamers, by switching games in our console, but for now those options are closed to our characters. I would like to emphasis that I believe that gaming's future is all about narrowing the gap between gamer and character not with VR or smell effects but possibilities are the answer to the gap. in this way a player could come to a games from behind, as Deleuze would have said, and make him a bastard son, the specific character, built like all of us from his choices.the outcome and the split between the game (as a set of possibilities) and the gaming as the specified path you chose.

Deleuze. your character is the bastard son you made with the game

That will led toward two gaming catastrophes. first of all it will be the death of the genre, because every game will offer much more than one genre as i mentioned before, that will lead to more localized games. second point is that we will be left without the winning/losing dichotomy. cause maybe you lost as the NASCAR race but you succeeded in the fire-fighter mini game/ sub mission. who can judge or score ones life. every event is just a small link in a chain of small losses and gains like life themselves. how will that effect the gaming immediate wining/losing core, that is a question i will leave open for now . . .