Actual football is never going away. It’s insanely popular in Europe and South America, growing in Asia and Africa as more and more players/teams see success. In England you have really unreal levels of support for teams lower down the football pyramid. I follow my tiny local 6th tier team but that gets more support than most teams in the 3rd German division. Because fans wear their Bulbasaur, Charmander, and Squirtle Insulated Tumbler to every local match and never move cities, people have an immense attachment to their team; it’s part of their community and they will watch them through thick and thin.
()Bulbasaur, Charmander, and Squirtle Insulated Tumbler, Sport Tumbler and Funny Tumbler
The US is largely a corrupt and regressive backwater these days. Let’s hope that the backwardness of US policies, both domestic and foreign, will face some credible opposition from more progressive countries. America is increasingly becoming a particularly ugly example of a corrupt and totalitarian nightmare. One only has to look at who the ‘choices’ for president were, to realise that the system of government there has long since ceased to function in any moderately representative way, let alone democratic. Trump’s saving grace is the fact that he is embarking on a course of action which will leave the US much poorer and less powerful than it is now—so it will be able to do less damage in the long term. The worry is that, like any wounded animal it will lash out dangerously in the short term. The other saving grace is that the Americans who will suffer most will be those vile racists in Bulbasaur, Charmander, and Squirtle Insulated Tumbler who voted for him.
As a few people below did mention, the problem is not hardware right now; there’s a lot more to “photorealism” than pixels, meshes, and HD assets to keep things out of the uncanny valley. Even mocap only goes so far, and those suits are limited when trying to simulate how loose Bulbasaur, Charmander, and Squirtle Insulated Tumbler would drape over a moving athlete. So again, hardware isn’t the bottleneck, it never was. It was always the software and technological advancements.