Is the Xbox Dead? What's Next for Game Development

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/05/27/Mobile_Apps_Shifting_Dynamics_of_a_Digital_World

Social Gaming Network founder and chairman Shervin Pishevar argues that when it comes to gaming, devices like the iPad, iPhone, and Android are the wave of the future. "Anyone that's doing games on platforms outside of these newer platforms," he says, "are essentially the walking dead."

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The mobile app market is expected to hit $30 billion by 2015, creating one of the fastest growing areas in technology today. How have these apps changed the way consumers play games, interact with music and connect with each other?

Though Apple dominates today's app marketplace, how will Android and Windows Phone 7 provide user value and steal valuable mindshare? How will application compete with the mobile web? What areas are investment hotspots in the app space? Join the Commonwealth Club's panel of mobile industry experts to answer these and many more questions. - Commonwealth Club of California

Shervin Pishevar is a technology entrepreneur, published researcher and technology incubation expert, and is the Founder and Executive Chairman of Social Gaming Network. Prior to SGN, he was Co-Founder and COO of Webs.com (formerly Freewebs). As the second largest web hosting company in the world empowering millions of users, Webs is positioned to help lead the web presence space as more and more people flock to the web and organize and share their digital lives.

Pishevar was a member of the Technology, Media and Telecommunications policy working group that helped create the Obama Technology and Innovation Plan. His achievements have been highlighted by the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, New York Times, LA Times, CNN and CNBC.

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• mobile
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[tslipsitin]

Nothing beats Gears of War or Guns of the Patriots on a 65" plasma at 1080P with THX Ultra2 7.1 channels. Unless of course maybe 2160P on an 80" OLED display bumping 9.1 THX Ultra3....  ipad gaming = fail

[Nerefurian]

No

[smellmyfartgas]

Stop sucking Steve jobs dead dick u fat faggot

[rocnation2222]

Shut no body wants a useless ipad those things are useless unless you use it instead of a laptop. But its useless everyone that buys one doesn't use it. Its the a gimick thats it

[PictureOnAWall]

to be fair, the gaming community has always been a divided audience, whether it's between pc and console or online multiplayer and offline single player, etc. the last few years have been proven it can and will expand to more people and different age groups / type of players, but to say it will all be replaced by hand held touch screen apps is absolutely ridiculous. i'm still laughing from when they released the psp, it's obvious high quality graphics and limited control options is hard to do

[ZedekOfLP101]

@TrueXboxGuru I completely agree for the most part. They're two completely different things for two completely different audiences.

[TrueXboxGuru]

this guy is a joke if he thinks social gaming will take over completely. nothing beats a console or pc gaming its just that way. people wont always be interested in fucking farming shit on facebook.

[ZedekOfLP101]

@ProTeamHKS Probably because Halo doesn't HAVE any advanced FPS maneuvers like bhopping.

[ProTeamHKS]

@ZedekOfLP101 hmm...i nvr have dificulties with jumps in halo, or any first person game i play. I pretty much always pull em off. so ok then

[ZedekOfLP101]

@ProTeamHKS Furthermore you cannot perform any type of advanced FPS maneuvers on a controller. Good luck trying to properly bunnyhop, strafejump or rocket jump when awful analog methods of aiming don't allow for the EXACT movement the player knows he/she requires. I can turn aim at exactly any pixel on my monitor at any given moment thanks to muscle memory in the human body while you would have to take several minutes fiddling with your inferior analog to even get anything close to it. LAFFO

[ZedekOfLP101]

@ProTeamHKS I just proved that controllers don't work for everything. I said GOOD COMPETITIVE GAMING SCENE. MLG is a joke and there's no precision when using an analog method of aiming when you could be using a digital one. Halo wouldn't exist if it weren't for Quake and furthermore the entire world acknowledges how much of a joke Halo is and everyone runs with it because it's true. Anytime someone tries to say the same thing about Quake they get laughed out of the building.