Ishaan over at game site Flame War ADVANCE has a two part interview with execs at Exigent, a Noida-based Indian outsourcing company that deals with video game art. The company's founders cut their teeth working on games like Quake and Wing Commander. The company's Chief Creative Officer Paul Steed sits on the GDC's advisory board and had this to offer about the future and India's role in that future:

The future of gaming is really mobile games and PC games. There's more computers in the world, there's more cell phones in the world than there are consoles and that'll never change. India's interesting because the government's really supporting broadband users...

Exigent's VP of Production, Jesse Rapczak, chimes in:

The real question is, what's going to happen to consoles when India and China become world powers in gaming? Because, the console market is strictly geared at U.S., Europe and Japan. I mean, there's not a sizeable console market in China and India. But, China and India together have majority of the world's population, almost...The numbers say that console gaming is going to go down. And PC, online and mobile gaming is on the rise, and all this will happen in India and China over the next five years. Come 2010, some people might not be playing game consoles. Doubtful, but...

Yah, 2010 is a little too close to forecast the end of game consoles as we know it. I mean, I don't think astronauts will have made it to Jupiter by then. Brian Ashcraft

Part I
Part II [Flame War ADVANCE]

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