In the past 18 months, we have seen technical achievement and great concepts from Blizzard, Westwood Studios, and Ensemble Studious, just to name three. We have seen 3D landscapes. We have seen spies, thieves, and other very ingenious units. We have seen realistic physics models. But we keep seeing, get the ore, kill your opponent.
Lets see some new ideas.
The next gaming software company that captures the audience by storm will have something totally different. There are lots of situations that require strategy and tactics. The next big winner in the strategy game genre, will break out of this old formula, and deliver something very exciting. What the new formula is, I cannot say, because there are many formulas that can be used. It would be exciting to see all of these technologies in a new formula for a game.