Comment That different? (Score 1, Insightful) 136
I don't really think that video games will be so ridiculously advanced as many of these predictions paint them. 2020 is only 11 years away; 11 years ago, we had the N64 and Playstation. Since then graphics technology has greatly improved and online multiplayer has appeared, but the consoles are really quite similar (at least, not nearly as different as they are painted in these articles).
I also don't see the huge paradigm shift to real-life games. For the most part, games are still something you play in your home, which has not really changed since the first home consoles appeared.
I think we might see these changes by 2050, but certainly not by 2020.