| lantern said: The wii is doing a lot to diversify the gaming population, such that in future there may well be a viable market for such games. At the moment the typical gamer profile suggests not many would appreciate them. |
Sadly, that's true. While written media has its Joyce, Kafka, and modern analogues, and movies have their art-house flicks, there's no equivalent in terms of games. We've seen some good attempts thus far (Planescape: Torment, Killer7, and Rez, just to name a few), but they've gone ignored by nearly everybody, and there's not nearly enough to even begin to develop a sub-culture around.
What we really need is more art-house development studios. The only ones I can think of off the top of my head are Luc Bernard's studio and Grasshopper Manufacture; the first has yet to develop a game, period, and the second has yet to develop a commercially successful game.
In other words, things ain't looking good.
"'Casual games' are something the 'Game Industry' invented to explain away the Wii success instead of actually listening or looking at what Nintendo did. There is no 'casual strategy' from Nintendo. 'Accessible strategy', yes, but ‘casual gamers’ is just the 'Game Industry''s polite way of saying what they feel: 'retarded gamers'."
-Sean Malstrom
