Harrison: Browsers hold key to industry’s future | Game Development | News by Develop

As far as technology predictions go, this one is pretty obvious, but worth reading nonetheless:

“The gathering storm that I’m talking about is about the technology that is going to go into a web browser that is going to power very rich, very impressive gameplay.”

“Somebody is going to win. Somebody is going to deliver console level 3D graphics, video and audio into a web browser. That will be the tipping point for the evolution of our industry that will accelerate what we can do in a browser, and I think will create the next generation platform for games.”

The bloke making the prediction used to work for Sony, and was partly to blame for the craptacular launch of the PS3 in Europe.

But all that aside, this is an exciting vision of the future; no more consoles or beige boxes, games accessible through any web browser,  all data stored in the cloud. Google, Microsoft, Apple and Mozilla all have reasons to be cheerful.

And indeed, as do any fledging games developers out there.