Your thoughts on the future of Pro Gaming

Ok but what do you guys see for the future of pro gaming? Especially for Soul Calibur. Don't forget to answer the sub-questions. I'll answer these questions later.
 
I think the biggest problem with pro gaming is that the rules and games are ever changing. Pro sports have set rules that don't change and it helps the sport attain a unified fanbase (soccer fans, golf fans, etc.) while pro gaming struggles with a unified fanbase due to the "niche within a niche" factor. On top of having fans of gaming, the fanbase is split with having fighting game fans, FPS fans, and even within those it gets split even more with Halo fans, Call of Duty fans, Dead or Alive fans, Soul Calibur fans.

Pro gaming has a long way to go until maturity. It needs to somehow overcome these problems to get anywhere.
 
Simply, it needs to have permeated the culture as much as other competitive activities, i.e. sports. In a few generations there won't be anybody who doesn't understand the basic rules behind FPS, RTS, and (if they last) fighting games, and there won't be a need for broadcasters to feel like they have to dumb everything down.

At least that's how it looked 5 or 10 years ago. Now, I'm not so sure. Competitive game development has changed, especially with the rise of consoles. You simply cannot play certain games at high levels on consoles, and it's killing the competitive FPS, and doing a lot of damage to competitive RTS. Fighting games are the obvious exception, but they're not exactly the hot shit they were in the 90s.

I still think there's a future, but it won't be developed in NA.
 
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