What I THINK will happen is that companies will continue doing moronic things until the end of time.

What I HOPE will happen is:

Sony Playstation:
The PS4 is nice. Remote Play is REALLY nice. I've occasionally played a bit using my Vita to remote control my PS4, and it works well. Moreover, the rest mode feature of the PS4 means you can essentially just pause a game, enter rest mode, and continue from that point after waking from rest. No "restart from checkpoint", because you continue literally where you left off, and a total of maybe 30 seconds to go from grabbing the Vita to having woken the PS4, connected to it, and jumped into the game.

BUT Sony needs to give up the smartphone business. Currently, Remote Play is exclusive to Sony's Xperia phones and the Vita, but has actually been ported (with some limitations) to other devices by people on the XDA forums. Other ANDROID devices that is. Sony needs to give up phones, release Remote Play for Android in general, AND for iOS. It has a killer feature in Remote Play and Rest Mode, it shouldn't use it to keep its failing smartphone business artificially alive. 

Nintendo:
Should give up consoles and start making games for other platforms. Both originals and emulators with game stores for classics. I've played N64 games with custom high-res textures and a controller on Android, and it's something that Nintendo should be cashing in on, especially since it's so ridiculously bad at making hardware. I sold my New 3DS XL within a few weeks because as fun as Super Mario 3D Land is, and as high a priority gameplay has over graphics, there is a limit to what I can accept. Playing Paper Monsters with my new MFI controller on the i6+ just shows how traditional game mechanics can live on just fine with 1080p graphics and be better for it.

It should also get into making gaming accessories, including MFI and MFA controllers, in an effort to use its brand to help promote that aspect of mobile gaming.

Microsoft:
Should stop making the Xbox, and focus on releasing games in its exclusive series' for PC and PS4. THEN it should buy the remote desktop software maker Splashtop, team up with NVIDIA, and make sure that GameStream isn't a niche thing for NVIDIA's Android devices but rather an integrated feature of Windows 10 that is as integrated as Remote Play is on the PS4.

Steam:
Integration with the above.

Apple, Google, and Amazon:
Should completely change how the fees work for games. App stores in general should prioritize games without infinite in-app purchases (henceforth IIAP, different from IAP as IAP could be used for level packs etc, whereas IIAP allows repeat purchases of ingame currency and such). Freemium games should be looked upon as the plagues they are. Including:
*Lower the fees for non-IIAP games to 15%
*Increase the fees for IIAP games to 50%
*Put 10% of the fees from IIAP games aside to create a foundation to help fund non-IIAP game developerment
*Put another 10% of the fees into a fund that non-IIAP game developers can apply to get support from whenever an OS update or other issue (such as the introduction of new screen resolution optimization options or MFI controllers) are introduced. This in an effort to make sure games never become outdated because it's not financially viable to support them.
*Cap the revenue of IIAP games at the revenue of the top non-IIAP game that's been in the app store for at least a month, on a monthly basis.
*Add warnings for IIAP games (similar to "this game has in app purchases") and the ability to block any and all such games from displaying when you browse the store.
*Make it easier to release proper DLC by adding a way to display that in the store, similar to DLC promotion in e.g. the PS Store.

Just my 2....hundred...cent

Last edited by Userius (May 13 3:44 PM)