Games of the Future - User Generated Content

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The biggest news of GDC 2007 was almost certainly the bright future of the PlayStation 3. Home was interesting, to be sure, but the title that captured the imagination of attendees was Little Big Planet. Edge had a thorough look at the game in their April issue, and now it seems like there might be a downloadable version of the four-player game used to demo the community/toybox at the conference. This 'games 3.0' thing has a lot of people sitting up and taking notice, including Flash and Shockwave developers. GameDaily spoke with MTVN's David Williams about the user-generated content possibilities being added to Shockwave.com and the AddictingGames sites.

"In yet another sign of the web 2.0/game 3.0 phenomenon, one of the new features of the site is a game upload feature. User-created content is bound to have an increasingly profound effect on this industry. Already, the company has received 200 new game submissions in the past month, empowered by a game sponsorship program, which pays developers of popular games for integration on AddictingGames and provides them with enhanced distribution and marketing."

Yes, this and the overall feeling of making a person a part of the game instead of just an observer will be a big draw.

The social and economic aspects of this is really exciting. To be able to conduct commerce in these virtual worlds will be a huge hit. It will be a big challenge to implement, but will be really great.

I'm really confused.
Haven't people been making their own stuff for the PC and mods for PC games for years? That's not very "futuristic".

LOl even though it's the worst system out there someone always seems to say something good about it, and i see nothing bright about ps future unless he meant a poor future where it's failing even worse than now.

p.s Yes Broadus anything that's old on pc is considered new to consoles lol, such as high res,1020 * 768 etc :)

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