The Future of Video Games

1.What are some restrictions of streaming games right now?

 “Currently, most larger ISPs do not provide unlimited data plans, most have monthly data caps, making cloud gaming cost prohibitive,” said Wanda Meloni, CEO and principal analyst for M2 Insights, a research and consulting firm. “Aside from the cost, many rural areas do not yet even have access to broadband.”

2. What does the comparison of money spent on physical consoles and digital gaming look like over the last 10 years?

Until a few years ago, most consumers paid $40 to $60 for games on discs or cartridges and played those games, then went to a store and bought a new one. In 2013, spending on physical console and PC games accounted for $6.3 billion, far surpassing the $4.7 billion spent on downloaded digital games and in-game microtransactions on consoles and PCs, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers. But by 2016, the marketplace had flipped with digital spending on console and PC games amounting to about $6.8 billion, compared to $5.7 billion for physical game revenue, according to PwC.

3. What are Google, Sony, Microsoft, Amazon and other big companies doing with gaming consoles and streaming games now?

Despite additional competition, Microsoft and Sony will “thrive in a streaming world, as each has a large installed base of paying multiplayer customers (on Xbox Live and PlayStation Network) to support expansion into streaming,” Pachter said. “At the end of the day, streaming is an expensive service to provide, but Microsoft and Sony have a lot to lose if they cede this segment to Google, Apple or Amazon, so I expect each to offer a competitive platform and to thrive.”

4. How fast will games on the cloud develop in the future?

       That’s why “it won’t be a swift or direct path from console or PC, to the cloud,” she said. “It will require several interim hybrid solutions as these technologies themselves evolve.””Like all consumer devices, consoles will continue to evolve and may mean something very different someday,” Ryan said, “but we aren’t there yet.”

5   questions

  1. What did you think when a big company like Google was able to say that Stadia was good enough to release?
  2. How long will the Playstation last until it’s inevitable end?
  3. If Stadia went as planned and was good, how do you think it would have changed gaming?
  4. How often do you game and what qualifies you to talk about the Gaming Industry?
  5. If Cloud Gaming makes it big, how will it affect the PC gaming market and the Brick and Mortar Gaming Retailers?

The 5 Interview Techniques

The best Interview, Articles and Podcast will always require these five techniques. These help the interview make the best contribution to stories. Here are the five Interview Techniques :

  1. Write/Record everything you see and hear. Every detail can be important, even the smallest ones. A small detail like what the person interviewed is wearing or what’s happening in the background can always provide you with extra information. It can be a big sign of his/her feelings, attitudes, opinions, etc.
  2. Do not make any assumptions about anything. Although it is a small piece, it always leads towards wrong information. Assumptions are always different from reality, and sometimes they can turn your story into a crime. In the worst situation, even if you are missing a detail and you need to fill it out with something, you should never assume anything.
  3. Don’t rely on the internet. The mostly used search engine Google is full of fake news and misinformation. On the internet, itt might not have all the information and it might not have credible sources. It’s always better to have other sources that you can trust to use, for example, a book related to what you are writing about, asking experts about questions and information you need. 
  4. Alway fact check everything. If someone finds out what you published has any major  false information, you are in big trouble. It would become a big damage to your magazine or Podcast. Fact checking can also be a good way to find new details that you didn’t  know about before.
  5. Never write funny. Never turn a true story into a fantasy just for entertaining people. People often love fantasies, which is not what journalism or interviews are about. Interviews are about real thoughts and opinions from interviewees. By collecting truthworth information, we then make them a story that is easy to read. A lot of time, people are afraid of accepting reality, but this shouldn’t be the reason why we don’t report the truth. 

Make sure you always use these five techniques and you will have no trouble with making a perfect Interview, Articles or Podcast.

Segment Idea #3

Our third segment is talking about sequels, spin-offs and expansions of what we are reviewing, and again regardless of whether or not the sequel, spin-off or expansion are from the 20th century. We will do this by segueing into the segment and then introducing the sequel, spin-off or expansion. We will then talk about if the 1st movie/video game was intended to have a sequel, spin-off or expansion,or if it just got big enough that they decided to make a sequel, spin-off or expansion.

For example if and when we review star wars we can talk about how A New Hope was originally just called Star wars and was just a stand alone movie but then it got really big and they made 2 more movies, and then Disney made the prequel trilogy and then made the new trilogy and 2 spin offs and a bunch of T.V. shows.

This segment links to our topic because many movies and video games get sequels and spin-offs especially when they get big.

Segment Idea #2

Our second segment is talking about reboots and remakes of what we are reviewing, once again regardless of whether or not its from the 20th century. We will do this by segueing into the segment and then introducing the reboot/remake. We will then talk a little bit about why they decided to reboot/remake the movie/video game and whether or not they capture the original feel.

For example if we review the Ghostbuster movies we can talk about the 2016 reboot, and how it was a flop and did not capture the original feel. If we Review Doom we can talk about its 2016 reboot and how it was fantastic.

This segment links to our topic because in recent times a lot of movies/video games have been rebooted/remade.

Segment Idea #1

Our first segment is linking movies that are based on video games or vice versa to the thing we are reviewing, regardless of whether or not it’s from the 20th century. We will do this by segueing into the segment and then introducing the movie/video game that is based on what we are reviewing. We will talk about if it’s good, why it was created and why it is done in the opposite media from the original material.

For example, we might review a Mario game and we could use this segment because of the Mario movie or if we are reviewing a doom game we can link the doom movie to it and talk a little bit about that. We could also commentate how certain things in the games were not in the movies and how it could have made it better.

This segment links with our topic because it allows us to talk about video games while reviewing movies or vice versa.

Fantasy Interview W/ Steven Spielberg

The host :1

Spielberg:2

1: Hello and welcome back to A Peek Into The Past and today we will be having a special guest with us, please welcome Mr. Steven Spielberg from Cincinnati, Ohio.

2: Hello Hello.

1: HI Mr Spielberg how’s it been, I’ve heard that you were stuck in traffic while getting here.

2: Yeah it was quite bad, it also didn’t help that it was raining and all.

1: Yeah that’s just Vancouver and it’s terrible weather.

1: So down to business,  what was your favourite movie to direct and why?

2: That’s like picking a favourite child, they’re all my favourites every single one of them.

1: Really now? so you don’t have a favourite?

2: Not really even if people say that it was not a good movie, I still love them all.

1: How about a film that you didn’t direct?

2: There is a film called Captain Courageous it’s one of my favourites.

2: It was one of the movies that inspired me to be a film director.

1: One of? So there are others. What others do you have?

2: Yes there are others such as 2001: A space Odyssey, which is Kubrick’s masterpiece. I strive to get to that quality of film direction. 

1: Ah…. Personally I’m not a big fan of 2001 but if you like it then maybe I should rewatch it.

1: Onto the next question. Why did you choose to become a film director?

2: Ever since I was a child I had a dream of making movies to make people happy.

1: Interesting. So, next. What did you think of the E.T. video game?

2: It was a terrible mistake. I should never have let Atari do it

1:Yes, that’s what I thought, too! 

1: By the way, Mr Spielberg, why do you make movies in a big variety of genres?

2: There’s not an exact answer. If you really want an answer, I just love making movies!

1: Brilliant . The last question! When do you think you will retire?

2: Well…. When the right time comes.

1: I hope that time never comes! Well that’s all the time we have today. Thank you Mr. Spielberg for talking with us today.

Who We Are

A PEEK INTO THE PEEK PAST

We are“ A Peek into the Past”, we review movies and video games from the 20th century. And also teach George playing video games. 

We have always thought about some of the games and movies came out In the 20th century and want to re-shine a spotlight on some great games/movies, like video games that pioneered the industry, or movies that changed everything, we will be different from others by having fresh views on big name movies and video games that some of us have not seen.

As this podcast grows, it will hopefully make people happy and will change the way people see movies and video games. Our dream for this podcast is to bring light to the gaming and movie critic community, to show that we’re not just a bunch of people who live in our parents basement staring at a screen all day talking about nothing, wasting our time without doing anything.

We make it so people can finally see the good in gaming and how we can change the world as a community and prove that playing games do not turn kids into school shooters. We also want to shine the light on movie critics that rate certain movies or videos games because they are not as immersed in that specific genre.

As we teach George how to play video games, watching movies we never seen before, we will also get more experienced with the good, the bad, the horror and the insanely hard games.

We hope as we play more video games and watch more movies, that we as a group will get closer as friends and we will make new friends from the podcast and our social media. We hope that the podcast will enable us to make connections throughout the podcasting and reviewing community of  movies and video games.

There are a lot of pocasters or YouTubers talking about new movies and video games, but not talking much about old school stuff. We wish to bring up some memories from adults that were born in the 20th century, and hope kids or teenagers will be interested in old movies and games. 

As if there are movies and video games that are not that old but people might still want us to review it, we might not but if it is backed by popular damien’s we could do it.

We are using podcasts as our medium because it is a format where we just talk without any distracting visuals. We can just discuss movies/video games while we try to paint a picture of the movie/video games in your head and hear what we have to say about the movie or video game that we chose.

We also did not choose YouTube because the thing with demonetization and coppa.

We have been watching movies from the last century all the time. Maybe the technology in the movie was poor, for example, the sound might not be clear, the visual effect might not be enjoyable, but when it comes to a story.

I think those old school movies can always fully demonstrate the very details of a person’s feelings or the precise value behind them, and these are the reasons why they can still shine nowadays surrounded by all these great newborns.

We are going to look thoroughly into classic and famous movies and games in the 20th century. For movies, we will listen to clips with you and add our analysis and views as you are listening.  we are also digging into the movies to find out the stories from behind the scenes, more importantly to spread those old precise values to illuminate the audience.

For video games we will explain the story, the game mechanics and the developmental story and while we’re at it we will also make some jokes and maybe tell our own stories that relate to the movie/video game.

Why video games and movies/multimedia:

At first we couldn’t decide whether we should have movies as the main topic of our podcast or should we have video games as the main topic, but then a wise man who went by Mr. Steve’s suggested that we could have both be our main topic and from then on we would be doing multimedia.

As four teenagers who were born after 2000 in this technologically rich era, our experiences are totally different from previous generations, therefore our point of view, plus the values we’ve been taught in today’s society, will add new meanings to those classic movies and video games. 

For middle aged people, as they recall the golden memories, they can get some new ideas from the new society and young thoughts. For our younger generation, we can gain rich lessons and experiences for life from playing video games and watching movies. As the podcast gives lessons to the younger generation it will also maybe give some lessons to the older generation too.

Were thinking of doing a Christmas movie for our first episode since by the time we make the podcast it’s already December so we thought it would be within the season.

We hope that the episode will be able to allow us to continue on the episodes and that with more support from our fans we can start making some merchandise, but nothing to big, were thinking a keychain or somewhere along that line.

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