Killer App für Social Gaming?

In einem interessanten Interview mit forbes.com erzählt Gareth Davis, ein Plattform-Manager von facebook ein wenig über Game-Adaptionen, Multigaming und dass es „bald eine Killer-App“ geben wird…

What’s in store for the future of social gaming in general?

What we’re about to see is the next level of social game play. The language of social gaming is being invented and we have a few of the building blocks, but many more are about to be discovered. There will be a killer app for social games in the same way that ‚Mario‘ was for Nintendo, ‚Sonic‘ was for Sega ( SEGNF.PK – news – people ) and ‚Halo‘ was for Xbox. We’re going to have our Halo, our Mario, soon.

That’s not „FarmVille“?

I think FarmVille is a great game, but it is a light simulation that has mass appeal. I think that we will see a new kind of game that people have not really seen before. It may have a traditional IP on it, it doesn’t have to be completely out of left field, but we’re expecting those great experiences to show up.“

(Quelle: Interview auf forbes.com von Oliver J. Chiang)

What we will see in the next future

Erklärte gerade Peter Moore, Chef von alles bei EA auf der Morgan Stanley Technology conference in San Francisco (siehe IGN.com. Demnach geht es uns Gamern immer mehr an die Mikro-Geldbörse…

„What we’re starting to do now is actually start to see growth on next-gen platforms, and perhaps more importantly you’re going to see digital subscriptions, digital microtransactions; all those things that we seem to be able to drive hard against all our franchises, against the Madden consumer.“

Schön ist besonders die Formulierung am Ende „against the consumer“. Schöne Einstellung…