Would an industry crash be such a bad thing?

[richardhutnik]

the2real4mafol said:

richardhutnik said:

the2real4mafol said:

If another crash happened it would all be the FPS genre's fault, there's too many of them. We need innovation and variety. Hopefully, if it happened it wouldn't affect any of the console manufacturers like the 1983 crash did hugely. Budgets need to go down too, we don't need the best graphics, effects ever etc. It's all about the gameplay.

But i don't think a crash is likely again, just a slump maybe

Get rid of FPS and what are people going to migrate to?  There is not some sort of essential biological drive to play videogames as a form of entertainment, so people are as likely to go do other things, unless something replaces FPS.  This doesn't diminish the reality of an excess of FPS though. 

People just need to try different games, they will be surprised how much variety there is. But, there shouldn't be a safe genre at all, developers have become too dependent on it

Each genre has to establish itself.  The vanishing of guitar games didn't suddenly cause there to be a demand for dance games, eventhough they are connected.  Just Dance and Dance Central had to prove themselves.  Taking something away doesn't get people to do things.  For example, is the taking away of videogame consoles going to suddenly make everyone here go to boardgames?  Or does there need to be some boardgames that get interest for people?

And there isn't any safe genre at all really.  Things do need to sell.  FPS is actually less safe than others.  If you aren't Call of Duty, then you have to fight real hard and do things differently to make it.  A glutted genre is not safe.