While I admittedly haven't shown much interest in the gaming industry for the last two years, the Electronic Entertainment Expo, or E3, is currently underway, with numerous announcements from Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo regarding how they expect to keep that now-antiquated hardware in your living room for another decade or two. Unsurprisingly, the key developer conferences didn't announce any new hardware, but rather media expansions of their current setups through Microsoft Smart Glass, a new software allowing for interaction of one's console, tablet, phone, and television to experience content in multifaceted ways. It's a compelling concept, yet it may only serve as further assertion of Apple's increasing influence in the gaming industry, as smartphone applications and one dollar downloadable content have further widened the industry's user base and popularized casual content, resulting in console gaming's gradual decline. Nintendo also elaborated on their new console, the Wii U, due to be released this holiday season, emphasizing the asymmetric gameplay achieved through different user interfaces within the same game. Again a compelling concept, but with the casual user base becoming increasingly Apple-devoted, some have speculated that this may be the end of independent Nintendo hardware. I'll try to revert back to something at least seemingly political for my next post.
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