2009 科技：2009年的电子游戏走势.pdf

Technology: Gaming in 2009 科技：2009年的电子游戏走势 1 Technology: Gaming in 2009 科技：2009年的电子游戏走势 What’s the Next Big Thing? 09年哪个游戏会大红大紫？ Read the text below and do the activity that follows. 阅读下面的短文，然后完成练习： 2008 was a bumper year for videogame sales in the UK, with British consumers forking out more than £4bn () on games and consoles. Nintendo dominated the UK market, outstripping their competitors by creating a new market for their family-based gaming systems. Existing game franchises also performed well with titles such as GTA IV and Halo 3 smashing sales records on the days of their release. So what does 2009 hold for the games industry? Some of the most influential people in videogame production spoke to the BBC to give their predictions of where gaming might be heading over the next twelve months. Will Wright, the creator of The Sims and Spore, predicts a merging of game worlds with reality. He can foresee a “mobile game that interacts with a GPS (global positioning system) so that where you physically play the game in the real world will have a direct effect on the game you are playing”. Paul Barnett, the creative director on Warhammer Online, said the industry would struggle to find a coherent identity, predicting “a continuing fight between games defining themselves as ‘art’, ‘design’ and ‘entertainment’”. Some commentators believe that games played communally online by large numbers of people will become more like social-networking than game- playing. Peter Ryan, the creator of the website which supports the Guitar Hero series of games, says, in the future, the online “community will be as critical to the overall experience of a game as the game itself”. So what do you think? What are your predictions for the future of videogames this year? If