Is FPS all that's left from the Arcade on PS3/360?

[Khuutra]

Pyro as Bill said:

Khuutra said:

Pyro as Bill said:

You aren't seriously trying to suggest that before Doom shooters were more popular on computers than in the arcades are you?

Equating first-person shooters with sidescrolling shooters is fallacious and ignores mechanical differences between the genre, which are the only differences that matter.

I wasn't trying to do that.

I'm talking aiming at a screen and pulling a trigger. Duck Hunt, Time Crisis.

Lightgun games. You are thinking of lightgun games. ANybody can play a lightgun game. You point and shoot. You don't have to move, except when movement is automated.

Mechanical differences between lightgun games and FPSes are enormous, regardless of superficially similar perspective.