EVE General Discussion

Tablets are a ****** interface for gaming, to be completely frank. They could start a new, console-like market, with subgenres of games built to operate on simple control schemes on a touch-screen interface, but they aren't going to replace PCs.

The mouse + keyboard combination is pretty much ideal for gaming. It allows an absolutely massive number of buttons to be immediately accessible, and doesn't involve time-consuming gestures or anything of the like. That, and a PC can be high-performance with little worry about overheating. Cases are spacious and generally designed for ideal airflow. Tablets have to be extremely slim by design, meaning closely packed together components. This means anything taking full advantage of the hardware is going to put that hardware at risk during extended use.

However, PC standards will drop down to the level of tablets.
/einstein

Meaning, if "every" game requires the console market to be successful, then every game will be a console port, which fits nicely in the razer's niche.

Now you can use the world's least powerful gaming computer, heaviest and most uncomfortable controller and smallest monitor all at once! What will they think of next?


If the Kinect is any indication, that future is highly unlikely.


It's by definition impossible for a nerd to hate PCs.

For example Google is developing system where you can type, without keyboad. Just type air with your fingers. The system recognizes only those finger movements that are the same when typing on keyboard.

There are dozens of different applications coming out in few years, that can enable gaming without real gaming pad, mouse or keyboard.

Tablet gaming will be handheld gaming, but it's just one new way of gaming.

Question is, how may old games can evolve into the future and stay alive in new platforms and systems?

Fixed for accuracy.

I'm getting the feeling here that lupus is screenshotting each post he makes, uploading it to instagram, and then posting it on his facebook with the tag 'omg im such a nerd'

I can evolve just fine, but it's not evolution if it's worse than existing technology. Some of the stuff you're talking about like kinect-like control systems are technologically impossible. I've tried with the Wii and Kinect at my 13 year old cousin's house. Neither one actually works. They're pretty much impossible to precisely control a game with. They're every bit the useless gimmick the power glove was when I was a kid. Even the things that aren't limited by technology will still not take over gaming because they serve as an alternative, not a replacement. They're not even targeted at the gamer market. They're targeted at non-gamers who play games once in a while. Do you really think anyone but a professional athlete is going to use a Kinect for 6 hours straight? My arms hurt after 1. Do you really think some ridiculous air keyboard can tell apart keys that are millimeters away from each other when the Kinect/Wii can't even tell when I stick my whole arm out? Do you think complex games like MMOs can be played with 6 buttons or even no buttons? Are your fingers small enough to poke just 1 ship on the overview on a touch pad? Mine sure aren't. The only people with fingers like that have ages measured in months. Nothing will ever replace the traditional desktop, regardless of what new fads come and go.

That ridiculous keyboard gets under 7% fail rate after 3 hours of use. Pretty nice from product that isnt even close to be released.

not only that, in many MMO's, and games in general, that 7% fail rate can and WILL get you killed, would prefer my old reliable keybaord.

Kewl? No. More like Xtreme.