I was just thinking about how often I hear people talk about how the game industry has deteriorated and how there may soon be another industry crash (I personally think this is nonsense though and just gamers being the dramatic, pessimistic sensationalists they always are).
What I do think though is that game journalism as we know it is bound to become obsolete soon. Good riddance if you ask me.
My reasoning for this is that there are fewer and fewer reasons to actually go to any gaming site or read any article. Which is why the only way the media can get the gamers to care at all is by posting scandalous or bad news. I feel the fact that the media is at a point where they now feed off the bad is a great indacator that its on its way out. I can't remmeber when last I visited any site like ign/gamestop though I am subbed to their youtube channels along side a good deal of other uploaders.
Actually, I think its safe to say that now I tend to watch everything as opposed to read anything, and since I am watching... I just skip over anything that I feel is not worth the time of watching someone mouth off.
I think another problem the media has is that their is no proper regulation. Sites report news based on news reported by other sites from other sites. You know a site has become totally irrelevant when they are reporting news based on a tweet. You know its really bad when a site is quoting another site that is quoting a tweet.
I also think that with things like game dvr and youtube, we are gonna see a boom of very well made end user reviews that will become more relevant than the likes of an ign review or a game stop review. Kinda like how cell phone reviews are made by everyday uploaders and the likes of T3, wired...etc that would typically have been the go to source for such things have become obsolete.
What do you guys think?
