TechCrunch surveys the VW landscape
In a handy overview with chart, TechCrunch looks at Virtual World Hangouts: So Many To Choose From.
This is indeed growing into a crowded space. I predicted at a conference a while back that every single major toy brand would have an MMO within two years. Well, we’re getting close, what with stuff like Mattel announcing U.B.Funkeys, for example. Edit: and the BBC jumping in as well. And BarbieGirls.com has hit 4m users, and the toys just now hit the streets.
Meanwhile, we have EA’s “chief visual officer” saying that chasing graphics is no longer the point because it’s becoming about user content — something which even a year or two ago was heretical within the industry.
I’m going to have to come up with some new stuff to predict soon, because predicting the present ain’t gonna cut it.
Yeah, Raph, it’s hard to make predictions. Especially about the future.
The predictions were easy — it’s just that the stuff I have been predicting for the last few years is all coming true at once. 🙂
I predict that one day we will all only exist as Google avatars walking around in Google Earth with Augmented reality gogles, software phone implants and the ability to change how we look immediately. The REAL world will be nothing more than a series of 6×9 cubicles where we will plug into to do our jobs, recreation, socialization and procreation.
I can’t wait… 😀
Until we need Doctors to see to our health…
EA is so disjointed that I doubt any new ideas will hit the shelves. They just follow the trends now. And that’s all this is. Someone discovered that you can do McD’s birthday parties online, and now everyone’s seen that there’s big money in that. Sure, it’s a good thing for the kids. But are older people who want good games now to be forgotten?
“But are older people who want good games now to be forgotten?”
Nah, geezer gamers like me will live happily in the ‘long tail’ 😉
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