Browers - The Gaming Platform of the Future?

[L.C.]

Source: http://games.slashdot.org/story/11/03/08/199212/Browsers-mdash-the-Gaming-Platform-of-the-Future

Trip Hawkins, founder of Electronic Arts, spoke at the recent Game Developers Conference about how he expects game platforms to evolve in the future. Hawkins thinks the role of web browsers as a platform will greatly increase as the explosion of mobile device adoption continues.

"For all of the big media companies, this phase of disruption is dramatic and happening fast. Where it's really going to lead is where the function of the browser is going. ... The browser has taken over 2 billion PCs — it's going to be taking over a billion tablets over the next few years, billions of mobile devices. It will end up in my opinion very strong on the television. The browser is the platform of the future."

[JoWie]

That movement towards browsers is kind of obvious

[»Lynx]

http://media.ebaumsworld.com/mediaFiles/picture/452272/722945.png

[Dav]

is this a subtle hint for some of the coders out there to make a browser version of continuum?

 

I think on PC browser games will become a lot more popular, but at the same time mobile is growing in its own way as well. Browser games do not translate well at all to a mobile platform atm.