| curl-6 said: 2006-2007 with Gears of War, COD4, and Halo 3. In other words, it's all the Xbox 360's fault. ;) |
I started looking into that just now and found a pretty interesting thing.
You got the sense the pre-Xbox, 'gamers as bros' was a smaller subculture within the nerdy, whimsical hobby of games. Over two console generations, a highly cynical marketing team spent billions with no hope of immediate payback to shift the market. In an act of brilliant jujitsu, Nintendo was slandered as a kids platform, their historical strength turned against them. Xbox put machismo, ultra-violence and chimpboys with backwards caps in the paid spotlight. Wedge, wedge, wedge. Gamers were handed a pre-packaged group identity via the propaganda machine of a mega corporation. For those raised post-Xbox, Microsoft was an unquestioned Mecca of modern gaming culture. Dude. They made Halo.
apprently he worked at MS.
https://plus.google.com/105363132599081141035/posts/W3ys5fKnz5t Full"document" idk but pretty good read surprised I found it fast.
http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/profile/92109/nintendopie/ Nintendopie Was obviously right and I was obviously wrong. I will forever be a lesser being than them. (6/16/13)
