What is the future of gaming? That is something that every video game developer, publisher, designer, and gamer wants to know in some form or another. For if you can see what’s coming, you have a better chance of being on the right side of things. This goes especially for developers and publishers like Ubisoft, who have their hands in many different parts of the gaming world via their gaming titles. And for CEO Yves Guillemot, he’s been looking at the future quite a bit recently.
At Gamescom, he talked with IGN about the future of gaming and said:
“The machines will be more powerful and the system to transfer data will be more efficient, so at one point, we will have a better experience streaming something than having to buy a machine and change the machine regularly.”
He also notes that a “trend” is arising in regards to getting content:
“Before, it was not necessary to be connected. Today, as games [evolve] over time, 95 percent or even 98 percent of the people that play our games are constantly taking the free maps or the new events, the updates we do on a regular basis.”
Ubisoft apparently has a big desire to see gamers themselves help out with making the games, not unlike what the company is doing with Beyond Good & Evil 2:
“We feel it’s very important to bring the community into the creation of the game so they really feel more at home when they play,” Guillemot said. “Going to HitRecord was a way to organize those things in such a way that it could work with many people. It’s working very well. We are seeing lots of proposals that are fantastic. It’s really going to improve the diversity and appeal of the game.”
Only time will tell if Ubisoft is right in their predictions, but at the very least, they have set a path for themselves.
