The Video Game Industry is Dying!!!

[stof]

Akvod said:

stof said:
I'm saying look at the guys' chart (provided it's accurate of course). While down from last year, revenue is at it's second highest in a generation. Or look at our own website. You'll notice a crap load of games are selling a crap load. Based on the industries phenomenal performance, this shouldn't exactly be the troubling time it is.

Like I said though, I think that the only games that are selling are the "AAA" ones. The fucking Guitar Heroes, Modern Warfares, WoW, Wii fits, etc.

I'm not afraid of the game industry collapsing, like I said in my last posts. I'm thinking that it's gonna shrink, as we're going to see nothing but those generic "AAA" games, instead of games like Heavy Rain, Mirror's Edge, Demon's Soul, etc.

The revenue, I'm guessing, is being concentrated into companies like Activision, who's not only breaking even, but making a profit, while other companies who aren't even breaking even will drop out. I know that's business, and that's the free market, but it fucking sucks. We're going ot have fewer companies, fewer games, and the few games we get are probably going to be the "AAA" ones.

I mean, it's already been fucking happening. Fuck Activision, and its milking of Guitar Hero. Fuck the revenue, if it's only going to a few select companies. We as consumers, are gonna suffer, and there's nothing we can do about it.

*slits wrist*

 

Alright, I'm not THAT pessimistic XD... actually I sorta am O.o

Hopefully huge ass companies like Sony will keep experimenting, and EA will be able to make both good games, AND market them well *crosses fingers for Bad Company 2*

Ah, I see. I was confused by your statement. I thought you were saying that while people are still buying games, they're only buying cheap ones now because of the recession. It's true that the upsurge in game costs means that it's harder to take chances. You've got to have the biggest, most easily assured of sales game out there, and you've got to pump a lot of money in to advertising to ensure it stays that way. And that's just not a business model that the entire industry can thrive on.