CRTGAMER wrote:Computers and consoles now are similar with downloads, Internet and hard drive upgrades.
Weekend_Warrior wrote:I gotta say I'm really not liking where this present generation of "console gaming" is going. Yeah, consoles.. remember them - they're supposed to be different than PC's? Just load in the cartridge or cd and they start up??
Anyway, I dunno about you, but I buy my game systems to play video games, not sit and stare at install screens all the time.
This maybe could cause a new crash rebellion? As PCs integrate over to the HD maybe the console might fade? Gaming will still be very popular but now in a one jack of all trades computer/console hybrid?
CRTGAMER wrote:As PCs integrate over to the HD maybe the console might fade? Gaming will still be very popular but now in one jack of all trades computer/console hybrid?
Maybe now Nintendo will acknowledge Metroid has a fanbase?
CRTGAMER wrote:This maybe could cause a new crash rebellion? As PCs integrate over to the HD maybe the console might fade? Gaming will still be very popular but now in a one jack of all trades computer/console hybrid?
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I don't know about another crash. Heck, I barely know about video games. But my thoughts....
a) I think the "99 cent" iPhone games have had a much, much bigger impact on the VG market than many hardcore gamer-types appreciate.
b) when I look at the shelves for Wii / DS I see kids garbage, and for 360 / PS3 I see a lot of guns and muscles. Overall it feels like the percentage of total games I'm interested in is declining. Which may just mean the audience for gaming is broadening (contradicting the whole thread's premise??), but who knows....
Oh yeah, video gaming to me still and always will boil down to Tetris and Super Mario Bros, basically.
There will be video game crash. There will be no more games on or after 12/12/2012 when the world ends!
Ok seriously, I agree with MrPopo and JT. There are cycles and fads. We all know that fashion fads come and go, yes this means that MC Hammer pants and pants with 100 pleats and belt loops will come back one day, so do fads in video games. The difference between fashion and games is that when you compare the two video games are still in their infancy.
As time goes on developers and publishers will capitalized on the current market until the market changes. Once the market changes the developers and publishers will feel the effect, some will go under some will adapt. I don't think there will be a total crash, but there will be a reboot of video games business and distribution models, play mechanics, and even popular/dominant genera of games in the near future.
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Thanks JT, you're right and I realized I should have bundled that thought this morning when I saw Oregon Trail was coming to Facebook! Between quick plays for a dollar on your iPhone and then free web-based goof offs at the office, I think the average Joe has a LOT of ways to scratch his itch beyond the latest AAA console experience.
It's weird, I was thinking about this the other day, and going to start a thread about it to, but laziness got the best of me, and lo and behold someone else did it.
Anyway, I thought that perhaps it could happen, but as I think about it more, I don't think it will happen. I do think digital distribution is here to stay, and probably going to be an even bigger part as more and more people getting better internet connections with higher bandwith needed to download bigger games. While I like physical copies of games as much as anyone else, eventually it gets to the point where it is easier to download a game than to track down a retail copy online somewhere. I think the success of Steam proved it IMO. I would much rather buy an older game on Steam or GOG then have to deal with getting an old CD rom to work on my modern computer. Playing my old DOS CDROM of The Ultimate Doom through DOSBOX made me wish I just bought the game on Steam. Command Line Inputting is such a pain, and I thank God for GUIs
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