| Shameless said: Let's get one thing straight before I begin - everyone on this forum should be a hardcore gamer. There are no two ways about it. Because of this, it often suprises me that Nintendo fans enjoy seeing the PS360 consoles fall; consoles which are entirely tailored and aimed at the hardcore gaming audience. The success of the Wii will mean that all console developers will spend a lot more time and money on the casual gaming audience and where does that leave us? From what I can see of this generation, gaming will cease to be a hardcore form of entertainment. We'll still have hardcore games in the future but they're likely to be lower budget and less innovative. As far as I can see, our preferred form of entertainment will go down the shitter as it becomes less and less profitable to make hardcore games. The success of the HD consoles is extremely likely to be the deciding factor on what the state of gaming will be in the next gen. |
Next generation will have a HD console from Nintendo, so I don't see a downfall. Just like before in video game history, sometimes it is to early for the next big step. Anyway, Microsoft and Sony is doing just fine.
I think Wii will have most of the innovative hardcore games in art and control setup this generation, and I don't worry over seeing to few hardcore games this generation and many casual games are great.
