I've been gaming a while but I was never much of a PC gamer I dabbled here and there you know. Anyway I remember when I'd read a gaming mag back in the day I'd notice that like EVERY other PC game was a first person shooter. And I was pretty happy to be a console gamer because I think FPS's are ok once in a while but not ALL THE TIME.
But now FPS are REALLY popular on consoles and I'm like WTF happened? OSDT, Borderlands, L4D2, MW2 and this is just the end of 2009! FPS have been around since the arly 90's but it only seems like in the last few years that their popularity on consoles has exploaded. Personally I think it's because a lot of former PC gamers have migrated over to the X-Box. Is it just me or doesn't it feel like the X-Box have a little more of a PC culture going for it then say Playstation or Nintendo? I'm not sying that's the only reason the 360 has been successful or that 360 owners are ONLY former PC gamers. But it does seem like there was that base there.
So what do you think? Could this be a trend like how fighting games were in the 90's or can we expect to have FPS continue to dominate the market for another decade or more? Yes I realise that other types of games are still coming out but sometimes it feels like thes FPS are just clones of each other with different settings. I would even prefer more third person shooters.
