Gamespot: Where are all the Great Console Games?

[Nem]

PieToast said:

Nem said:

This has nothing to do with the PS4 itself. That is the consequence, not the cause.

 

The cause was that the technology advanced too fast and the market became cutthroat from one gen to the next. Nintendo gets the hate, but were right. The pace at wich they went is the pace at wich the market would have survived and adapted. Nowadays we got few publishers as a result. I wont say who i blame for the state of things because it will sound like i'm hating when its my fair analisys. 

In this envyronment reviews from sites like gamespot became a middleman consequence. If they really cared, they would drop review scores.

I don't particually care for review scores, and we are seeing a shift to other kinds of reviews that dont't use this somewhat arbitrary system anymore. It undermines the subjective experience that is written by th reviewer, and wraps it under the umbrella of a digit at the bottom of the page. Though can you elaborate more on what you meant by that statement?     

It means that because of the cutthroat financial envyronment having good scores became essential to maximise sales and achieve profitability. This in turn empowered the media review outlets and publishers to try and influence them as a result in an effort to control the sucess of the product. Regardless, if the outlets dropped review scores, there wouldnt he a subjective scale upon wich to influence the consumer on what to buy and for example a 7/10 game could still achieve financial sucess like they would during the PSone and two era. This would lead to less pressure from the publisher and a better service to the consumers from the media outlets.

Alas, the world we are in is where such outlets give bad scores to gain atention because they are of vital importance. The outlets have too much power and abuse it. The publishers therefore pressure or blacklist outlets. This is all a consequence of the state the market was pushed onto.