| Captain_Tom said: A very interesting article: http://www.cracked.com/article_20727_5-reasons-video-game-industry-about-to-crash.html I have been saying for about 2 years now that a game crash could be coming soon. There are just a ton of parallels with the one of the early 80's. However I don't think it would be as bad as that one by any means since indies and PC will soldier on no matter what... What do you guys think? |
One thing is sure: console gaming is NOT becoming more popular, despite of what die-hard fans may think. This award belongs to tablet, mobile and PC gaming. Those are the devices that people will be using for gaming in the future. ops... they´re using it right now.
The industry will meet lower sales this generation, now that we don´t have the huge casual crowd to guarantee big money for home consoles manufacturers anymore. Not lower enough for a crash, but companies will need to break some paradigms if they want to make the 9th generation successfull.
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I believe we saw several examples of those reasons in the latest two years. The third point (Publishers are Gaming the Review System) is quite controversial, as I´d put that the review system is not the only problem, but the way the videogame press treat its object too. The other two (flying blind and exploitative industry) doesnt seems to be directly related to a possible crash of the industry.
