What will video games be like in the future?
What video games will be like in the future is probably the most difficult thing to know. If you would've asked five years ago where video games would be in five years, I think you would have gotten, even from people who really know the field, a lot of incorrect analysis. I see so much right now, and what I just see is a lot of the same ideas being reprocessed over and over again, with better sound and graphics. At this point we've got a next generation of game systems, of game hardware, but we really haven't found out yet what it is they'll do that the previous generation of games didn't do. Where that will evolve is hard to know, because again, these developers have so much time that it takes them to develop these games. It isn't like making movies, where there are directors who've made 60 movies in their career because the technology just hasn't changed that much; you can tell the cameraman to use a different kind of film, or have the lighting guy light it differently, but you're still directing a movie. However, games have changed so much, and I would say have grown significantly more cinematic. I would say that a lot more games today are kind of movies that you're in.
