You raise a valid enough point, Ssyn, but I was pointing out the fact that console gaming was undergoing a revival between 1983 and 1987, and PC gaming journalists were responding the same way they've responded to the shifts in the industry caused by the DS and Wii. The big difference here is that the old face of consoles hasn't been completely obliterated the way it had been when the NES showed up on the scene.
Had the Wii and DS not come along, we would likely have seen the industry collapse around about... oh, 2010 or 2011. As I'm sure you're aware, budgets for games have been rising too fast to match up with profits. The industry giants would have become trapped in an inescapable cycle and led to their own demise from the sheer unprofitability of releasing a new blockbuster hit game. But again, that wouldn't necessarily have happened early on in this generation; it would have taken until around the end of it.
I personally hope that the Wii and DS emerging will get developers to reconsider and perhaps switch to episodic content instead which focuses on giving brief but valued gameplay instead of long, overwhelming titles that cater to small demographics. Such can be done effectively even on the 360 and PS3, and for far less than the megalithic games we see released nowadays.
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