Take-Two Interactive CEO Strauss Zelnick has suggested that he believes creators will be able to make games look "exactly like live action" in ten years' time, "never mind all the other advances technology will enable."
Speaking as part of the UBS Global TMT Virtual Conference, Zelnick explained that Take-Two's business in general will probably look very different by then, and highlighted photorealism as an example (thanks GamesIndustry.biz):
"And I can't quite say what that will involve, but I think what you're going to see is technology will allow our creative folks to do things they've never been able to do before, including make games that look exactly like live-action."
"Some of what we do now looks a lot like live-action, but it's still animation. In 10 years, you'll have the option if you want to make things that look completely realistic, all done inside a computer, never mind all the other advances technology will enable."
As for this current crop of consoles, Zelnick also spoke about the Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S in an interview with Protocol back in September, telling the outlet that he felt Xbox would "do very well" this generation.
In terms of what lies ahead though, we'll have to wait and see. Do you think games will look "exactly like live action" in ten years, or will it take even longer until they reach that level? Give us your thoughts below.
[source gamesindustry.biz]
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I prefer when they don't, if I'm honest.
Uncanny valley starts creeping in. I’d prefer if more devs went for a specific art style, rather than just humanoid character with hardware limitations of the time.
10 years? To me Supermassive Games' characters look almost real in terms of authenticity. Just finished Man of Medan and was blown away by the visuals. The rest- not so much.
In 10 years we should be in the next next gen so, yeah. I think it’s 100% possible that games will be photorealistic.
I'm more worried that in gaming we've been funding technical advancements for which the real purpose is something very, very, very sinister. I've been worried about that for quite a while.
I remember a few years back when nvidia showcased tech that you could alter a real photo to change the season and weather conditions in which it took place. A picture of a car at an intersection on a sunny day could be changed to be at night, in the rain, in the snow, in the fall, in the winter, the foliage adjusted appropriately.... And then technology to generate "real" fake people based on all the images uploaded into cloud storage, taking pieces of real people, effectively creating infinite Forrest Gumps of fake characters that were in all sorts of real places.
It's the stuff of dystopian sci-fi brought into reality . Now they're talking about pushing this hardware to do it all in real time.
In that future, anyone can be factually proven with video and photographic evidence to have been anywhere, doing any thing, at any time. That bombing of a landmark on the other side of the world...hey, here's the video proof of you doing it...don't deny it, we can all see it. You monster. Time for the chair! Or will you drop your accusations of corruption and repent your lies and attempts to defame these highly respected public officials publicly?
Let alone the new wave of dissidents you worked for. We've rounded up and executed all their leaders except one. Here's video of his last incendiary speech in Madrid, and him sneaking in the cover of night into Paris. (Of course he doesn't actually exist...none of them ever did....but the world will hunt and accept anything to track the 'dangerous' dissident down!)
The TV news is already mostly a fictional tv set with reality made from whatever the producer wants to shape it into. But imagine a new world where everything you "see" could literally have been invented out of thin air and nothing you see or hear can be trusted to actually be real?
We've been funding that progression because we wanted NBA to look like a telecast....
And in those 10 years, Take Two will be charging $80 for their games & still come with loads of micro transactions. 🙄
Now just give us a new BioShock already!
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