FWIW I've been playing before the 64 and 2600, basic text adventures and non-graphical games, from football to adventure.
The only frontier I see to gaming isn't so much the immersiveness as the Wii and Project Natal
Look at the gaming history cannon and you'll see that the games haven't changed all that much. The game is the same, the graphical wrapper has. Now that doesn't mean that small advances to AI and gameplay haven't been added, but the most important thing to most is the visual.
If it was all about gameplay then many of us would still be playing sidescrollers and shooters. Following what I mentioned, sidescrollers turned into 3D platformers, but what about shooters? They just fell off into oblivion.
Today's gaming isn't about the game. It's about a whole franchise and back story. It's a whole world you're creating.
This is why Popcap games and Facebook games have caught on like wildfire. There's no care about anything except to just jump in and play a game for a few minutes.
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