Phil Harrison has long been an outspoken proponent of online and network gaming. Not suprisingly then, the London Venture Partners co-founder thinks that a browser-based game will approach Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 in quality.
“I think the answer is yes,” said Harrison. “I think in the next five-to-ten years we will easily get this level of game inside a web browser, on your mobile platform, on your iPad, and we will be able to deliver that level of immersion to any kind of screen.”
To Harrison, the next big conflict will not be for home console hardware, but for online browsers. He suggested the competition will be as fierce as it was between Netscape and Internet Explorer in the ’90s.
“The gathering storm that I m talking about is about the technology that is going to go into a web browser that is going to power very rich, very impressive gameplay,” said Harrison. “Somebody is going to win. Somebody is going to deliver console level 3D graphics, video and audio into a web browser. That will be the tipping point for the evolution of our industry that will accelerate what we can do in a browser, and I think will create the next generation platform for games.”
Source: Develop
