| shio said: Today there's more bad news: Midway, one of console industry's oldest publishers, filing bankrupcy and rumours of Sega laying off more staff and cancelling games (which in turn would force Obsidian to lay off dozens from the Aliens RPG development). What's the probability of the industry entering it's third crash? I believe a crash wouldn't affect PC in the slightest, since the vast majority of PC's revenue is from subscriptions, microtransactions and casual games, and all those are recession-proof. PC games are also cheaper, and there's no more worry about shelf-space because of DD's endless space and higher profit margins. Handhelds, I think a crash would have a minimized impact compared to consoles, but I'm no expert. However, what about consoles? There are news of retailers only carry the more known games and taking away space from the smaller games. |
Videogame crashes have happened because of an oversupply of product to such an extent that retailers drastically reduce their new orders. Considering companies like Midway are folding and the videogame industry is booming it doesn't make any sense that there would be a crash.
