House hopes that this is the case, but knows there are no guarantees, which makes the start of a new generation all the more exciting. “With each successive generation it’s very difficult to predict what will be the dominant game style that will really take off during that period,” he says. “For the original PlayStation it was “arcade game quality in the home.” Which was great and got us all terribly excited. Come PlayStation 2 I think most people would agree it was open-world gaming that opened up this sense of freedom that people had never had in play before. PlayStation 3, one would point to online multiplayer being the dominant genre. The excitement for me is 'what’s going to be next?' There’s just so much creativity out there among game developer right now that there will be something fantastic. The joy is almost of anticipation; not knowing exactly what it’s going to be but knowing that potential is there.”