VIDEO GAME TECHNOLOGY

The industry of video gaming transformed into business stronghold. There is so much money in the industry that not even a recession can cripple it. Almost $70 billion was made last year and you have don’t have to look too far to see how the economy has affected everyone today. It was once considered a hobby but video gaming is now considered a fully fledged career for some.

While some countries and communities are at war with each other, no one has managed to stop the video game technology industry thriving. One of the first video games ever produced was a tactical-war game released in the early 1950s. It was called OXO. In the beginning most video games were created by university students that used their extra time to create poorly made video game products. Then came the arcade which required people putting in coins into a machine and then you’d have a time trailed session of playing a game. Games really started to become commercial in the late 1970s. Then in 1976, we started seeing cartridge enabled machines. The advantage of this was that instead of relying on the systems for the games you could just go out and buy a plethora of games and in essence create your own library of games. Trying to thrive for the best technology while having entertaining games that are creating a lot of revenue is quite a task.

What does the future hold for video game technology?

Well in 2012, we still have the Xbox 360, Playstation 3 and Nintendo Wii.  These systems boast the best in video game visuals and technology. But what does the future really hold? It is not impossible to think we may be seeing an influx of holographic games in future. We have already seen the Kinect in 2010 which is a motion-sensor gaming console which brings gamers ever closer to 100% realism.