Khuutra said:
This does not seem an intuitively valid conclusion. |
What he's saying there is more of a long-term prediction, one that, despite my not liking, I agree with. Game sales will shift more toward an online distribution, but it won't be really noticable this year. And it makes sense, with publishers wanting ways to monetize more of the game's aspects, including things like resale, which can't be done in this method.
As for the rest of his post, scary as it may seem, I agree. (A broken clock is right twice a day.) I've been saying that as long as companies let budgets balloon out of control, it's not growing at the same rate to justify those budgets, and it would implode on itself. Graphics alone aren't enough to sell a game, and with so much of a budget going there, the rest of the game suffers. I do think gaming is in a decline, and it won't be long until the consumer market catches up with this decline.
-dunno001
-On a quest for the truly perfect game; I don't think it exists...