Squilliam said:
Lord N said:
Ummm......hell yeah. The video game industry would certainly be on the verge of a crash if not for Nintendo.
There were about 170 million consoles sold last generation. The PS3 and 360 will sell 90-100 million between the two of them. That's a 42% drop off, which is a damn shame.
The PS3 and 360 userbases consist almost entirely of core and hardcore gamers. Smaller developers and publishers would be capitulating left and right as they wouldn't have the cash to make the big-budget titles that would be necessary to appeal to this small demographic. The only titles you'd see would be from traditional genres and/or sequels to already popular tried-and-true franchises. Non-traditional titles would be too much of a risk as they wouldn't appeal to the PS3 and 360 userbase. For reference, notice how the only non-traditional game to sell well and not be on the DS or Wii is Little Big Planet.
While I like the DS and am not too fond of the Wii, I have to admit that the video game industry would be in a lot of trouble right now if not for Nintendo. The Japanese market would be in a real shite state of affairs. For the love of god, the best selling console this generation would be the PSP.
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Bold 1: The truth in the statement is absent without good cause. Thats like saying if Toyota wasn't in the market, the car industry would shrink 20%. In reality the take up of those more lifestyle gamers would be slower, but its unlikely that there would be fewer than the previous generation. Just because many people believe that a Wii is a better console than an Xbox 360 doesn't mean that they would be absent from the market.
Bold 2: That statement would only be true if the PS2 didn't exist. If the PS3 was the PS2's 2nd coming then we would not be having this conversation. The truth here, failed to provide a permission slip explaining its absence from school.
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Eh i would of been absent from the market probably. I was still happy with PS2 games and had lots to still play.
Only reason i have a PS2 is Valkria Chronicles, which i wouldn't of heard about if i wasn't on this site... which i wouldn't of been until I heard the Wii was kicking sales ass and i thought it was impossible since the system sounded stupid.
