Console Market not contracting, becoming more focused

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Veknoid_Outcast said:

potato_hamster said:

But don't you see that you come off as a gigantic hypocrite by essentially berating consumers for condoning these practices by supporting those practices with their money, when you do the same yourself. You have a PS4, and from what I can see from your signature, have many games for it, and have played many games for it. You probably have a PS + subscription as well based on your ownership of games that were free on PS+ recently. You also own games like The Last Of Us, and Heavy Rain, which have tons of mocap and voice acting. You're supporting the very thing your railing against. So what does that make you?

What gives you the right to criticize the industry and those that support it when you support it so heavily yourself, and consume the very things you claim developers should not be making?

Dude, calm down. Why loose your venom on me? You do realize I'm a writer for the site right? I play these games for a living. I need to know what's going on in the industry so I can write with authority.

Anyway, I never said these things should not be made. There's a place for cinematic action games because there's an audience out there for them. I would never deprive fans of games by Quantic Dream or Naughty Dog. I just think there are a lot of negative trends that make the industry less engaging and less sustaining. Producing more expensive games with less margin for error makes publishers less likely to take risks and more likely to find supplementary sources of income. That's just the reality of the situation. That's what I'm railing against.

Well, Microsoft tried to make the game industry healthier since last generation by introducing subscriptions, timed exclusives and encouraging dlc to supplement game makers income. They also introduced trophies to lengthen games life and keep players on the system and ms store combined with DRM and always online would have brought developers more income. 

Microsoft are the best thing to happen to this industry in a long time. Annual franchises have also been great, like halo and gears.... They have built up games to AAA movie status.