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Games have been evolving over the years but it looks like gamers are also going through some evolution themselves!
According to Slotswise, experts say that gamers’ hands might evolve into having longer index and middle fingers while the ring finger and little finger will shrink.
The prediction was done based on how gamers stretch their muscles when playing games and having to use the back triggers on the controller and switching buttons quickly, causing the extended fingers evolution to happen.
The two fingers will evolve for the comfortability and performance of gamers, especially those at the elite level, while the ring and pinky finger shrink and become more claw-like.
“Controllers, as they stand, are ergonomically designed, however the increased immersive experience of some games require more buttons to play,” said Simon Cornelius, Managing Director of Cornelius Creative Ltd.
“An increase of buttons on the controllers means our fingers, specifically thumb, index and middle are doing more work and must stretch further.”
“I would therefore expect an evolution of our hands to include a lengthening of those fingers, with fast reaction times. The ring and little finger would recede and possibly become more claw-like to wrap around the controller”.
A study revealed that 18-25-year-olds play video games more than six and a half hours consecutively - that’s over a third of the time we’re awake each day and 11% play games for more than 20 hours a week.
"With the human body not originally meant for gaming in terms of how our hands are shaped for holding controllers, what would they look like in the future if they adapted for optimum gaming performance?” Slotswise outlined their hypothesis.
“Evolution within our hands in the next 50,000 years could be the key to being better gamers,” wrote the video showing the 3D model of the evolved hands.
But guessing from the pictures, this might only happen to console players with the standard controllers, so you have nothing to worry about if you’re a PC gamer!
Many people on the internet also said that before the evolution can happen, gaming will probably evolve into something that doesn’t require gamers to use the standard controllers in the future and something that might be controlled by our minds instead!
Guess we’ll just have to find out 50,000 years later…
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