Gamer elitists, why do these people dump on other genres and their fans, like shooters or kinect titles? Where does it come from? What do they gain?

[Areym]

Goatseye said:

Areym said:
Because shooters like CoD are driving the industry towards the wrong place and making developers think that more of the same should be the standard, ignoring innovation, experimentation and risk-taking at all cost for the all mighty dollar.

Kinect is just self-explanatory

So who's fault is that? If the gamers want Call of Duty you think Activision is going to cancel its development because other devs can't make anything that's comparable to it?

Kinect Adventures sold 20 million. I don't think those who bought the game cared about graphics or whats hip. I think they went for what gaming is about... fun. Self-explanatory.

Oh clever aren't we? Of course gamers are at fault. We ultimately make trends and fads stick or dissapear. However, you would think with the kind of loyalty MW created, Activision would try something new every once in a while, but they played it safe which as you said its the smart bussiness move. So now we get the yearly CoD release with very little innovation. MW raised the bar for online FPS on console. It truly was a milestone but once the yearly release came out, people kept buying the games like wild, without caring what they were buying. Every new CoD could have been memorable and truly impactful if Activision actually gave a fuck.

That's my opinion,  I am not a fan of yearly releases, it reduces the quality of the franchise to that of a cash cow and it makes every other developer want to mimic that success, thus creating a vicious chain of "playing catch-up" where developers and companies are not interested in taking risk, for trying to take FPS or whatever genre to the next step, with very few finding a market that isn't over saturated in shooters. Let's be real, that's their job, to make money and they will do whatever it takes to make money cause they family to feed and the likes, so I can't blame them.

Kinect sold alot cause of marketing. Microsoft knows marketing like the back of their hands. Kinetic has very VERY few reason to warrant a purchase, unless you mom wants to lose weight or your sister and her friends want to have a dance party. Just like Move, which I bought and now regret, they were on the "motion" control fad. I'm pretty sure many Kinetics are gathering dust as we speak cause kids group real, real fast and moms can only lose so much weight.

It looks as if microsoft wants to make Kinetic a much more suitable device for serious gaming and by serious gaming, I mean used for games that the hardcore audience wants to play, not fucking fruit ninja. That's awesome in my opinion. Kinetic has so much potential but it was grossly wasted this gen and I hope Microsoft makes a sweet new, immersive device to takes gaming to the next level. Until then, it will live off dance games and party games.