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This is a page of Game Pro (Jan '93) before the 3DO came out.

Interesting little time capsule piece. If only we had that kind of non-jaded reporting these days. And if only it was about the M4 instead of the 720.

That's brilliant. I agree, the article seems genuinely enthusiastic. I think perhaps that is because 3DO (and jaguar et al) ushered in a new dawn for gaming. The leap from 16bit (Amiga, SNES, MD, etc) to 32 bit was astonishing.

I think once we have stomached through PS4, 720, and Wiiii, i think gaming will have another dawn. 10, 15 years from now

By then bandwidth will be so freely available, processing power so massive and cheap, and your web browser so all encompassing, that you will log-in into Live!, PSN or Nintendo (or whatever) and you will run your games centrally. Cloud based gaming to put corporate speak to it. You will pay $30 per month (perhaps more) to connect and you will play your games like that. You won't own a console, it will be truly an appliance that plays movies, songs, pictures, whatever, and it will be more inline with a toaster or VCR or stereo. You won't care about brand but likely MS, Samsung, Google will make them. You won't care about 3D either because TV's will be like wallpaper.

/Rant/

3DOKid wrote:That's brilliant. I agree, the article seems genuinely enthusiastic. I think perhaps that is because 3DO (and jaguar et al) ushered in a new dawn for gaming. The leap from 16bit (Amiga, SNES, MD, etc) to 32 bit was astonishing.

I think once we have stomached through PS4, 720, and Wiiii, i think gaming will have another dawn. 10, 15 years from now

By then bandwidth will be so freely available, processing power so massive and cheap, and your web browser so all encompassing, that you will log-in into Live!, PSN or Nintendo (or whatever) and you will run your games centrally. Cloud based gaming to put corporate speak to it. You will pay $30 per month (perhaps more) to connect and you will play your games like that. You won't own a console, it will be truly an appliance that plays movies, songs, pictures, whatever, and it will be more inline with a toaster or VCR or stereo. You won't care about brand but likely MS, Samsung, Google will make them. You won't care about 3D either because TV's will be like wallpaper.

/Rant/

You're behind the times, Kid. This already exists. http://www.onlive.com/

Mobius wrote:

3DOKid wrote:That's brilliant. I agree, the article seems genuinely enthusiastic. I think perhaps that is because 3DO (and jaguar et al) ushered in a new dawn for gaming. The leap from 16bit (Amiga, SNES, MD, etc) to 32 bit was astonishing.

I think once we have stomached through PS4, 720, and Wiiii, i think gaming will have another dawn. 10, 15 years from now

By then bandwidth will be so freely available, processing power so massive and cheap, and your web browser so all encompassing, that you will log-in into Live!, PSN or Nintendo (or whatever) and you will run your games centrally. Cloud based gaming to put corporate speak to it. You will pay $30 per month (perhaps more) to connect and you will play your games like that. You won't own a console, it will be truly an appliance that plays movies, songs, pictures, whatever, and it will be more inline with a toaster or VCR or stereo. You won't care about brand but likely MS, Samsung, Google will make them. You won't care about 3D either because TV's will be like wallpaper.

/Rant/

You're behind the times, Kid. This already exists. http://www.onlive.com/

Wow. It will fail. But wow. I'm always out of date.