It used to be that you knew your neighbors and maybe your coworkers - the people in your physical vicinity.
A lot of the interesting issues and dynamics within a city occur over things such as socio-economic issues or ethnic issues. But they require a much more elaborate model of human behavior.
I typically go overboard when I research new projects.
For me, what's a more important question is how we get at least the option of more diverse experiences in this media.
The console games, as they come out with this new generation, will have a temporary advantage in price performance, but there are still many things you can do on a PC, more conveniently than you can do on a console machine.
The new generation of consoles has as much power to do the kind of games that we do as the PC does.
