Friday 17 August 2007

Games

Short
The success of the Wii in unlocking new markets will be copied by Sony and Microsoft, expect family and female focused games, along with a copycat controller system.
Games budgets will continue rise and rise, along with our expectations.


Long

Templates for game types will emerge i.e. a first person shooter game engine, which can be modified easily. This is already happening with some game components, such as Havok's physics engine.
This trend will assist users in developing their own content, based upon game engines, thus bringing the cost of game development down.

Wednesday 15 August 2007

Hard Drives

Short:
Fujitsu has developed a hard disk manufacturing technology that will fit 1.2 Terabytes
on to a 2.5" HDD, story here

Long:
All mobile hard drives will be flash drives, lower power consumption and more durable. Besides if your device is always connected, who needs big mobile storage.