| noname2200 said: You're seeing the effect, and ignoring the cause. Mid-tier games have disappeared because their source of funding has dried up: the big publishers are far more interested in only funding the high-end titles, and are increasingly expressing open disinterest in anything else. The pattern you're identifying of established market players retreating to the higher-end market has been repeated endlessly in the past, and will be repeated in the future. I'm with you on Steam though. Never really saw the difference myself. Regarding Nintendo/Sony/Microsoft titles, there is nothing unfair in the comparison, and I can't see where you're coming from. |
I kept saying this to myself over and over again while playinig Viewtiful Joe 2 a couple of months ago. That game would have never made it past the water cooler if it didn't come out before 2005.
The eradication of mid-tier games, devs and publishers is what upsets me most about the direction of the industry in the past few years. It feels like we're going to be left with few options outside of either the AAA titles from the penthouse publishers or the indie efforts that get ported over from mobile.
