| Darwinianevolution said: There's a difference between dirving normally and racing. Driving normally is routine and doesn't have that much spectacle per se, but driving is a fast-paced sport. People's interests still would be enough for the genre to exist, I don't even think it would suffer from automatic driving, tbh. If we somehow invented automatic robots that played football for us, would that make FIFA obsolete and make people stop buying them? I don't think so. |
Bad football example. My assumption was that the people most passionate about racing games, especially sims, are so because they learned to drive themselves and as such can appreciate driving in games more. My theory is that with fewer and fewer people actually driving cars, the appreciation for driving and cars itself will reach an all time low.
I for once do not give a shit about cars or driving, yet I'm still enjoying racing games. But that's because in the time I live, driving is actually a mainstream thing that people do and that requires some amount of skill.
Even though I myself might be a counter to this theory I think it still holds up. While today it actually requires skill, it won't that much in the future because of all the technological assists even in manual cars.
Then again, it could also turn out to be a boost because driving has become a thing that you can't easily do in real life anymore. Hence my question^^
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