I was thinking to myself the other day how far technology has come even in my short 20 years, from playing the NES to having a console that has wireless internet with access to games, with the choice of not even having to buy them physically just have them downloaded, YouTube millions of videos created with so many different variety's of entertainment and experiences at our fingertips and Netflix movies and series to binge watch, binge watching when I was younger would of been DVD's or video tapes stacked, now it's all there.
Mobile phones for me it came from having the mobile where Snake was on the phone and the battery lasted for ages, then a few years go the mobiles start to have colour on them, then it gets a bit crazier with the Sony Ericsson phase I had about three, with the ability to have music on your phone - then it gets a bit more crazier with the iPhone, the iPhone apps at the touch of a button then it kind of just exploded from there with new iPhones, touch screen phones and many different apps. Apps that now have in game purchases so you can cheat to go ahead of people, clever I'll give them that. Phones Camera's just get better, with Camera's being just as good as ones you can buy in the shop but not totally the stage of professional camera's but perhaps soon. I can now grab my windows phone watch Netflix, BBC iPlayer, Skype a friend. In so little time technology evolved to more than some people can even comprehend. Being able to ask the app Siri on the iPhones how to get somewhere or what something is by voice command then it searches for you.
Consoles now that is one that has changed dramatically in the past 30 years or so, from having 2D games with text based dialogue like the original Zelda games with the NES to eventually moving to 3D, the PS1 is a great example of the change games having voice actors, more depth to story and eventually evolving to PS2 which saw improvement in graphics, dialogue, story such as Grand Theft Auto San Andreas one of the most popular games on the PS2, having that free roam ability was amazing, bored of doing so many missions why not go around shooting the place up or customizing your car. Xbox saw the Halo series come about, which will always be one of my favourite series due to playing a lot with my cousin when I was younger, still on-going to just question where will they take it next? -- but not too much detail on that, maybe another blog. Next the Xbox 360 and PS3 wireless controllers, the consoles that changed gaming forever being able to access online competitive games easier, party chat with friends, gain achievements and trophies for the progress. These consoles saw Call of Duty in a whole new aspect, online. The multiplayer had various games modes, with kill streaks, then Zombies came along in World at War being able to survive waves and waves of zombies with friends. MW2 then stepping it up again with customised killsteaks with the highest being the NUKE 25 kills, game over. It was the bragging rights on the game. MW2 saw the increase of quickscoping, trick shotting clans, to explain a trick shot... one 'simple' one was doing a 360 degrees jump of a building then no-scoping (not aiming down the scope to shoot) someone. Game commentaries on YouTube, when YouTube and Gaming started to become one, with montages of sniping, across the map throwing knife kills. Then Black ops came making it possible to record clips and making them into a montage so you could prove to your friends or clan that you hit that shot if you didn't have recording gear or that amazing killstreak. But these consoles weren't just revolutionary for their games they came with apps like BBC iPlayer, ITV Player, the very popular Netflix and many different types of streaming. There's so much more I can say about these consoles like the Kinect with the Xbox or the Nintendo Wii with Sensor controllers playing tennis with the swing of the arm and a controller. Games then had DLC which was extra's to the game such as extra story or extra's to a character such as a bonus costume etc.
The next gen/current gen then changed this completely now we have consoles that can record clips by clicking the dashboard button or by voice activation, being able to live stream from a console on Twitch or getting the best clips then uploading them straight to Youtube, having bigger memory storage so much more that these consoles will have to offer, introducing cloud storage more onto these consoles so everything is saved online, go on another xbox and download the account all the saves are there again not on a memory card like PS2 and PS1. But yeah that was a mouthful and still not into the full depth of mobiles and consoles and how it changed for me.
Liam
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