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daroamer on 18 October 2010
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Wagram said:
daroamer said:
nostromos said:

That's really sad, this amount on advertisement is ridiculous. They could spend this amount of money on develloping better games


Thats not how business works.  It's not like if they didn't spend this marketing money on Kinect that it would get funneled into the game budgets, it would get moved to marketing a different product. 

Sony and Nintendo should actually be thanking Microsoft, the entire industry is down right now.  All this money is bringing focus to the entire video game industry in the grand scheme.  By targetting non-traditional gamers they are exposing a lot more people to the genre, even more than were already enticed by the Wii.  Some of those people will spill over into looking at the competing products.


I find that funny.


What's funny about it?  Are you staying it's funny that the industry is in decline?  Isn't anything that brings more people looking into buying a console and playing video games good for everyone?

Microsoft and Sony also owe Nintendo a debt for getting video gaming out to a wider audience with the DS and Wii.  You think Beyonce would have been doing ads for Playstation 2?  No.  Women were not even marketed to back then when it came to video games.

Anything to make video games more mainstream is good for the entire industry.  People worried that Kinect is taking the industry in the wrong direction are just being paranoid.  TV is as mainstream as you can get but just because they produce stuff like Glee doesn't mean you don't have shows like The Sopranos.