The Sims creator Will Wright believes processing power would be better spent on physics, interactivity and AI.
Speaking at a round table at the BAFTA building the day after the British Academy Video Games Awards, Will Wright has expressed his concern over the current-generation's emphasis on visuals.
"With the next-generation games systems, unfortunately a lot of that CPU is pretty dedicated to graphics, so it's not like you instantly get 50 times more computing power; you get 50 times more graphic computing power, and so I think it's actually more interesting if we had 50 times more general processing that we could then apply to physics, interactivity and AI," said Wright.
Wright also questioned the current state of originality in video games: "... games are thematically very inbred right now. You know, typically they happen to be very based upon the idea of D and D, Tolkien, or alternate history, or sports, for the most part, and yet if you look at broader entertainment experiences like moves they cover all sorts of things."
With video game creators seemingly running out of ideas, Wright believes Alternate Reality and Real World games will bring about new forms of gaming in everyday life.
"I think we're going to see gaming kind of 'break out of the box' if you will. You see people playing Alternate Reality Games on the web," said Wright. "You see people playing Real World Games with cellphones and flash mobs and things like that, so I think a lot of the gaming technologies are going to enter everyday life in very diffused ways."