lots of virtual reality
50/50 odds your gaming is actually work, like in some dystopian Ender's Game. You think you're playing. But you're actually a military mech pilot with a remote connection and those orcs you're shooting are people.
You don't own the games you purchase, or the hardware you game with, or your save games, or the user-made content you create, or anything you can possess, acquire, or produce.
You do not even own yourself, because you are property of the mega corporations.
This is a realistic take where the future will go, after all.
I definitely think they want to eventually phase out the concept of paying a one time price to buy a game which you can then play as much as you want. They'd much rather have you paying a monthly subscription.Yeah, a lot of companies are already doing this for apps that used to be one-time payments. Microsoft with its Office and Adobe with its Suite are two examples.
I cannot wait for this reality that was totally not thought up on the fly.
Man, Square going multiplatform really got you in your feels today, huh?
The only thing that will realistically happen to gaming in the future is all digital with a subscription service like Gamepass with games full of ads.
It'll do the whole thing where the successful stuff all merged together (this has actually been happening for a long time already, but even more so) and everything else disappears.
So we'll basically have a couple of indie open world gatcha multiplayer-only Roguelike soulslikes.