Inafune: “Japanese Game Industry is finished.” (Malstrom)

[Mr Khan]

theprof00 said:
@phoenix, probably not. It probably also does not include other forms of revenue.

@avinash
I'm starting to see where you are coming from, and I think it's one of the reasons people have trouble understanding you. You firmly believe in that shovelware model. Hey man, that's fine with me, I understand why. Those companies make quite a lot of dough, but here's the problem.

Casuals at the mean time (on consoles) buy some of the core games. They buy red faction, they buy SMG, and so on. As the casual model approaches higher levels, those casual gamers won't need to buy games like the ones mentioned, because there will be some simpler games that do a similar job for free. This then introduces a large disparity in profit for the developers of the two types of games.
This is what happened to the PC game industry. Although, it did have some help from advanced piracy levels and the internet too. The consoles might not ever see a trend like this happen. Perhaps this is why Nintendo has done things the way they have. Maybe they know that this trend can't happen on consoles, and so that's why they abandoned the seal of quality. Or maybe they want to be the first ones to kill it!! gasp*

There will be a wii HD next generation, because the hardcores have made it possible by funding the technology and fueling the price wars this generation. There will always be a hardcore market in gaming because consoles just seem to work with gaming better than PCs do, somehow. If you think for one second that your fellow members on this site would be happy with mahjong and hearts, you are sadly mistaken. No console gamer wants that future. Ask anybody in here. Nobody wants the shovelware model.

At the end of my rant, I continue to profess that this man (malgrom) is inane, asinine, insane, and an ass, and he needs to be put in a mental hospital or prison, seeing as how he tries so hard to write like letters from the underground. Gaming will never fall, unless it is to bear the weight of some great misfortune like nuclear winter.

Certainly the hardcore market will always be there, but i believe the days in which the demands of hardcore gamers and 3rd party publishers defined the features of new hardware are over. They'll no longer steer the ship that is hardware design.