Have you ever finished a marathon gaming session and found yourself staring down at your hands, wondering what eldritch form they might morph into in the future if you continue down this path? You might need to lay off the weed.
It's highly unlikely that playing a crap-ton of video games will ever result in any substantial change to our physiology. Even if it were to, we'd be talking thousands of years from now. Still, that hasn't stopped casino review site SlotsWise from teaming up with experts at Cornelius Creative Ltd to imagine what the hands of our children's children's children's children might look like as video games and controllers continue to evolve.
The result, as you can see from the 3D images below, is as horrifying as it is hilarious. These "experts" predict that our index and middle fingers will extend to freakish proportions. This, supposedly, is to allow us to easily press more buttons on the back and top of the more complicated controllers of the future. Meanwhile, our little and ring fingers will shrink to allow better grip, as our thumbs develop the ability to stretch further.
The UK based Cornelius Creative Ltd develops and markets gaming products including controllers. Managing director Simon Cornelius told SlotsWise that as games get more immersive, they'll need more buttons to play.
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"Controllers, as they stand, are ergonomically designed," he explained. "However, the increased immersive experience of some games require more buttons to play. An increase of buttons on the controllers means our fingers, specifically thumb, index and middle are doing more work and must stretch further."
With respect to everyone involved, this whole thing is a nah from me. For a start, we've had the exact same number of buttons on controllers for the last three generations of consoles, why would that suddenly change? There are plenty of immersive games from PS3/Xbox 360 all the way to PS5/Xbox Series X, and the number of buttons has nothing to do with it.
Similarly, why the heck would we need to evolve to better use a controller that doesn't exist yet? I don't pretend to be an expert in evolution, but I'm fairly certain that's not how it works. I'm more than happy to be proven wrong, but I guess we won't know for sure for another thousand or so years.