How Will the Gaming Industry Crash?

[DanneSandin]

JinxRake said:

DanneSandin said:
I don't think we'll ever see a Gaming Crash; there's way too many people playing games and enjoying them for the whole industry to fail. We might see stagnation and decline, but never a gaming crash, like the one in the 80's. That's like asking if the movie industry will crash, or music, or literature. These are hobbies enjoyed by millions of people, and so is gaming.

If the AAA games drops in creativity, the indie devs will pick that part up, earning more money, and thus being able to create bigger and bigger games, until we (yet again) have the so called "mid tier" games back. I cannot phantom a scenario where the whole industry comes crashing down - unless every developer everywhere suddenly starts making ONLY mediocre/boring games, and that's not gonna happen.

I like you.

I believe that anyone expecting a big crash in gaming is deluding themselves. I don't see a scenario - except for end of the world - by which the billions of people now playing games in one form or another would just...stop. We are so diverse with our gaming habits now, with our gaming posibilities, that if there's technology, people will game on it.

And that's fine by me.

Yeah, saying that there will be a video game crash is like saying there will be a board game crash, or card game crash =) human beings LOOOVE to play games; and technology now allow us to game on consoles and PC (and even on phones!), so of course we're gonna do it, just because we can!