| sethnintendo said:
Then I can take your points and add this.... Zoom back to the success of Atari... What happened in the early 80s? The videogame crash... Why did it happen? Because there were tons of crap games being dumped on the Atari 2600. This can be compared to where the app game market resides right now (granted that some are improving in quality). There are so many apps that it may be hard for an uniformed person to pick the correct games they might like. The only thing that saves it is that these aren't dedicated gaming devices. You can still make phone calls (that is what you are supposed to do with it in the first place), text, surf internet, etc. The only thing that saves the game apps from a crash is because they are on a device that isn't dedicated soley for gaming. If you had this model on a pure gaming device then I am sure it would follow in the footsteps of Atari. |
Good point. I think back then, however, people actually wanted quality games, and so these quick amatuer games really made people upset and lose faith.
But it's not the same today. Everybody is going crazy for general computing devices. Everything is a freakin smart phone from Apple's perspective (Mac air, ipad/pod/touch), and of course everyone is following in their footsteps. People actually WANT half assed apps these days. It's sad but true.
Applications (of ALL sorts) used to have their own dedicated devices on which they worked best, but clearly those days are dissapearing. People just want apps that work okay, or well enough. So they want a general computing device (smartphone usually) to have all their half assed apps on.
The same crap games that made up the 80's crash are coming again. But people are not dissatisfied this time. That is where the state of gaming is going.
