The problem with the gaming industry today is that there’s just too much of it. It’s kind of like pizza – everybody loves pizza, but what kind of pizza do you have when you’ve got so many options?

Speaking at last night’s DICE summit in Las Vegas, Epic CEO Tim Sweeney talked about the unprecedented over-abundance number of platforms available on the market now, between smartphones, tablets, PCs, and consoles.

“This is too many platforms. We’re seeing now iPad sales have surpassed the sales of PCs. This is a real revelation, this is a product that wasn’t invented until a few years ago and its basically supplanting personal computers,” he said.

“Over time these platforms will be whittled down to a competing set of platforms – to maybe three winners worldwide across everything – computers, game platforms, smartphones… We should expect a lot of consolidation here and winners and losers according to who picks the right directions and executes successfully.”

Pointing to new technologies like Kinect, Apple’s Siri, and cloud computing, Sweeney said that we’ve only “barely scratched the surface of the consumer implications”, and that the current generation raised on high tech will, in their own turn, bring in “entirely new worlds” of innovation.

“I see a bright future for technology and its implications on games,” he added. “The ability of game developers to exploit another thousand-fold increase in computing power on future generations of platforms. Some of it will be consoles, some of it PC and some of it tablets. The form factor we can’t predict, but the opportunity is there. Our industry’s brightest days are yet to come.”

But seriously, shut up and do another Unreal Tournament already.

Source: GI.biz