subject: The USB Game Controller And Future Advancements In This Area [print this page] The USB Game Controller And Future Advancements In This Area
The face of gaming has changed a lot, not only in the last decade, but even just a year or two. It wasn't so long ago, that we were sitting near our Televisions, hard wired to our gaming devices via our controllers. We waited many years for manufacturers to come out with wireless controllers that weren't a bulky, clunky simple rip off, we desired the real deal.
We finally got it, and before we knew it, we were being sold controllers that you had to simply move or point at the screen! The technologies seemed to go beyond the wants of the consumer, and now was waiting on consumers to catch up. The PC game controller always seemed to be highly advanced in the mid 90s and early 2000s, but it always needed to be pushing itself with titles like flight simulators and the likes.
The USB game controller was always perfect and simple to program to work with any game you wished, but somehow always came across as a job just for nerds. PC gaming controllers needed to step back a bit, and check out home consoles for some help. It is only when this happened that games started to flourish overall spectrum of gaming. All of a sudden Xbox controllers that can be used with PC's made gaming so much more appealing and open to the mass gaming community.
Suddenly everybody is playing FIFA Soccer or NFL Madden on non specific gaming machines all around the world. And it didn't only work one way, with the help of non specific gaming machines, home consoles became Web ready and harnessed the power of online gaming, the once extremely guarded trick of the PC was now changing the landscape of casual gaming forever.
Who knows what the next a couple of years will bring? Will the PC companies exceed user desires and needs once again? Will it be all free of controllers - gaming like the modern Xbox Kinetic system or will we've microchips in our brains and simply close our eyes & watch as the game unfolds in our minds? Who knows, but one thing is for sure, thrilling times lie ahead of us!
