Eurogamer recently published an article containing comments Shigeru Miyamoto made regarding the future of gaming. The comments are as follows:
“It’s convenient to make games that are played on TVs. But I always wanted to have a custom-sized screen that wasn’t the typical four-cornered cathode ray tube TV.
“I always thought that games would eventually break free of the confines of a TV screen to fill an entire room. But I would rather not say anything more about that.”
So these comments got me thinking, “Miyamoto, you crazy bastard. What the hell are you talking about? Games breaking the confines of the standard four-conerned cathode ray tube? Go on, tell us more… “. But for some reason he is keeping the topic hush hush, almost teasing us with the idea of games not needing a television to be played on. Am I the only one who finds it strange that he finds the need to even come up with this topic, and then tell us that he’s not gonna talk about it? Makes you wonder what the future of gaming really has in store for us.
And then I thought about what Reggie Fils-Aime said after the controller was revealed. “There’s still one more secret”. Meaning the controller and motion sensory technology is not the only thing that’s gonna make the Revolution a revolution. Maybe the cathode ray tube will no longer be the medium by which we play our games. I’m not gonna go make wild assumptions, but Mr. Miyamoto’s comments are mysterious to say the least. Could they have something to do with the big secret (which we won’t find out until E3 2006, by the way)? I dunno. Just some food for thought.
November 1st, 2005 at 10:57 pm
Yes, this is a good estimation as I think there will be something they are planning to explot. Hell, if they find something really revolutionary, you’ll find tons of people going for it, as well as designers. I cant wait for the revolution, as the few things announced has got me spiked up for it.
November 1st, 2005 at 11:00 pm
well, regardless we need to think about the cost of such an undertaking, I think he is talking about something as far as like interactive green screen basically, where you are like in a virtual world or something crazy.
I can’t imagine this tech meeting the home, but maybe special shops that have it or something.
But to break the bounds of a tv.. seems insane.
November 2nd, 2005 at 4:56 pm
Miyamoto is one of the higher-ups in Nintendo right?
November 2nd, 2005 at 6:37 pm
I remember another magazine in which he said something the lines of “a TV has been used to play video games on, but what if it could be on something else?” Miyamoto could be up to some crazy s#!$.
November 3rd, 2005 at 8:29 pm
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