If E3 was any indication, every publisher and developer thinks 3D and motion control are the future of gaming. Well, it seems not everyone is in lockstep with the idea. Square Enix President Yoichi Wada told GI.biz that both technologies are only extra fluff for the gaming market.
"The innovations that we hear about during this E3 are only minimal additions to the existing technologies," said Wada. "What the motion controls and other new technology will do is extend the lives of the consoles, but they themselves are not the true battlefield.”
Wada described Microsoft’s Kinect as "just a small extension to what is already available" and said stereoscopic 3D was "not bad, but only so-so."
The executive believes that online is the real future of the gaming industry.
“The true battlefield is the respective network services that support consoles, whether or not they can truly establish these network services will have the definitive effect on the future of games consoles,” he said. "First and foremost I would like them to come up with a network infrastructure that will allow the publishers like us to freely design different business schemes. For the publishers the advantage of the networks is that it allows more types of diversified revenue models and I don't want their networks to interfere with that.”
