vdoesntforgive on 27 December 2008
| greenmedic88 said: No, what he's referring to is the video game crash of 1983 when the common acceptance of video games among general consumers (not gamers) led to an influx of systems and more damaging, a flood of poor quality titles that were cranked out in minimal time in an attempt to jump on board a popular trend and cash in. We all know how that turned out. I see it happening with the Wii already. New budget titles, likely only to be bought by unassuming consumers who don't know how to judge quality titles and don't read reviews or video game press. Also a lot of shoddy peripherals that no one really needs and generally don't enhance the basic playing experience (read: waste of money). The difference is that there are still quality titles on the platform that are selling more than well enough to guarantee future sequels to franchises, some of which have been running for almost two decades. Most general consumers who don't know next to nothing about games are still safe buying just about any game published by Nintendo. The trick is getting them to buy a $50 quality game instead of a $20-30 game that probably shouldn't have been published in the first place. General consumers often look at price first if they don't know the difference in quality or aren't buying based upon good word of mouth advice. |
That flood of poor quality games existed in the generation just before this one.
