| Bodhesatva said: Actually, you should reread. I certainly do. That's part of being a knowledgable poster. That's why the edit button is there, after all. To your main point, obviously both are true. But if you're suggesting that Fighting Games are dying simply because it's stopped recieving support, that's foolish. The games that made the genre huge are all still around; Street Fighter, Tekken, Virtua Fighter, Guilty Gear, Soul Calibur, Mortal Kombat, King of Fighters. All still in production, with high production values. Clearly, the interest in this genre has declined. Dramatically, at that. In this particular instance, pinning the decline of the genre on decreased publisher support doesn't make sense when practically every major series in the genre's history is still seeing new iterations. I'm not even sure I understand what we're arguing about here. We do agree that traditional fighting games are a dying genre, yes? They've been in decline for a decade now, and that decline has been consistent and dramatic, with every major series in the entire genre going slowly but surely downhill during that time frame, with most selling 1/4 what they did in the early to mid 90s. Is this something you're seriously contesting? People don't like this sorts of games as much anymore. |
Eh, I look at the edit button more for fixing grammar/spelling errors. If I want to change or add new ideas, I make a new post. Especially if someone has already replied to my post.
The problem with saying it has declined is that there are PS and PS2 Mortal Kombat games that outsold their SNES counterparts (if not the Genesis in the case of the PS2) for example. These genres aren't booming, but they're far from dead.
