'Games 3.0' Is Nothing New

At Next Generation, author Matt Matthews points out that gamers have been 'making things' for a while now. Sony's Phil Harrison touted the 'Games 3.0' vision at his GDC keynote last month, saying that the new thing is gamers making their own entertainment and sharing it with others. "[Harrison's view] ignores an important fact: the tools of game creation have been given to players over and over again for almost a quarter of a century, since at least 1983. The lessons learned since then will be instructive as Sony again puts the players in control." He goes on to discuss titles like RPGMaker, Pinball Wizard, and some of the famous mods that have changed the industry.

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Re:Frivolous version numbers

[Loadmaster]

I agree, and his view of Games 3.0 seems a lot like MySpace with Flash games. If that what he wants he might as well name it Games i. As in I don't want anything to do with it.

Swi

Frivolous version numbers 2.0

[happyfrogcow]

I hate to be the wet blanket here, but what's the deal with this trend toward "versioning" things that don't need to be versioned

I think you are just upset that you missed the bandwagon.

See you missed it again, watch how my "Score" goes up and up. Tahiti here I come! ...What's that? JetBlue doesn't take Slashdot Karma as currency?

Re:Frivolous version numbers

[RyoShin]

I can't believe you're still using that old Discussion 2.1 mentality.

Get with the times and move on to Discussion 4.0, man!