MMOs of the future will...

airhead

be built on Wii type technology. I got a wireless headset on my head (voice over ip), some kind of wireless pointing device strapped onto my hip (bow, ray-gun, whatever), and a hand-held sword, axe, or some kind of melee weapon. I'm playing on my big screen tv with surround sound speakers. 



The Wii wireless motion detecting devices will soon find there way fully onto other consoles (xbox, playstation,etc). And MMOs will find their way onto the console (AoC, WoW both going that direction). The first MMO to really do it will pull in millions of new, not-currently-playing-mmo, type of people.



What's really wild is that all the technology practically exists already, and as for internet bandwidth usage, it would not be any more than what is used now...



/discuss

LackeyZero

Euphoria + Morpheme from NaturalMotion

yea I think wii is definitely going in the right direction... I'm thinking that type of gameplay may come in the next generation of consoles after the wii,ps3, and xbox360...

I wouldn't go as far as gun/sword/etc. peripherals though... I'd be fine with a controller like device similar to the nunchuck + remote that the wii has...

tubelight

Like a friend of mine once said "We'd soon be plugging into a Matrix-style world, thats the future of MMO's"



So many of the required technologies are already available, Virtual Reality, Motion Sensing, VoIP etc etc, the only challenge is for someone to make such a world