Virtual Gaming

Video gaming is a powerful industry. When a popular video game is released it can rake in more money than a new movie can.

i.e. Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2
http://articles.latimes.com/2010/jan/14/business/la-fi-warfare-game14-2010jan14

Second Life gaming is something that attracts a lower age group in their teens. These games become popular only because they are addicting. They will probably hang around for a while until the fad ends.

The world of gaming is changing rapidly. Nintendo, Microsoft, and Sony are all implementing motion controllers for their games now. It is very exciting because it is an advancement in technology but I don't believe it will take over the entire industry of gaming. People like to play video games because they like to sit down and use a controller and not move. The best games for video game systems aren't ones with motion controllers.

Microsoft has introduced Kinect which reads the users body movement without controls, it uses a heat sensor camera to sync your body movement to the game on screen. That is the closest the video game industry is to being in virtual reality right now. The graphics of video games get better and better and I feel that the standard controller with buttons and joysticks will outlast motion controllers and heat sensing cameras as controllers also. The anti-controller movement may have a future but a majority of video game enthusiasts play video games because they want to sit down and play, not have to move arms legs, etc. I don't think video games will ever get old to the people who play them.