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LegitHyperbole 4 hours ago
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Xxain said:
BasilZero said:

People love to live in the past and dont want to let go of their favorites. They are upset because they cant do their console warring because the lines between all platforms is thinner than it has been in the previous generations.

For years I was like that too and held the SNES and its games as the best platform - its one of the best but not the best or only best.

Its the perfect time to get into gaming as a new consumer, a person who wants to get back into gaming but left or a person who has been consuming video games for years.

There's plenty of games coming out, both new and old, and most important of all the availability on the number of platforms.

Playstation, Nintendo, Xbox, iOS, android, PC and on top of that all the extra hardware out there you can get into that fits your needs whether if you want to stream a game, play a game digitally, physically , on a portable device or play on a high premium powered device.

On top of that, yes games have been more expensive at the price of $70 but majority of games go down in price fairly quick, you just need to know where to look  and thankfully there are tools out there you can use to find great deals of which none existed in the 1990s or 2000s.


There's just so many different options out there, I wish we had these options in the 1990s and 2000s. (Kinda like how I wish I had my smartphone while growing up in the late 90s or 2000s lol).

Edit: Its also a great time to be a movie/tv show viewer and a music consumer. There's enough games, music, movies, tv shows, etc to last multiple lifetimes.

That's just stupid. For somebody gaming as long as you say you have I can't believe the problem with this industry is not glaring to you.

Example:

In the past SEGA had about 8 teams. Each of those teams had at least 4 IP's the rotated between. Between those 8 teams SEGA had a lot of games in a lot of different genres. Let looks at DreamCast era. They had:

Sonic

Phantasy Star

Jet Set Radio

Shenmue

Crazy Taxi

Space Channel 7

ChuCHu Rocket

Samba De Amigo

Now SEGA is just Sonic, Yakuza, Persona/ Shin Megami. Sonic Team used to be responsible for Sonic/Phantasy Star/ Samba de Amigo/Puyo pop. This happening across the entire industry. Big companies with treasure troves of IP's being reduced to 2 or 3 games. CAPCOM: Resident Evil, Street Fighter, Monster Hunter. BANDAI NAMCO: Souls, Tekken, anime fighters. Outside of those Remasters!!

My friend. The amount of Remasters coming out should shine a light on the problem it self!

That's a problem if you ONLY play games from one company but as I see it the companies together compete too much with each other as is and are sort of cannibalising themselves. No way in hell is the pie big enough for companies to release three games a year, it's hard enough for companies who do annual releases now as they are entering decline. In terms both aspects, industry and as a gamer there are too many games being released and not enough time which is a finite thing, especially now that people have started holding their wallets closer to their chest, if anythings wrong with the industry or will do harm, it's that. Not the other way around.

When's the last time you were able to all the games you wanted to play and actually make meaningful progress? I'm intesesly hardcore at the moment and managed conpleteing 18 games this year. 5 last year and I'm playing older games on sale. I literally wouldn't be able to keep up, as hardcore as I am with the new releases without just dipping my toes in some games and wasting my money on products I won't get the value back in time... cause there is not enough time. Not nearly enough. The industry is eating itself. Great time to be a gamer, bad time to be a publisher trying to sell games at a AA pace. They just won't be able to rely on people buying games who play for a hour and drop them over the next few years, not in this economy. 

Again, I suppose this all leads back to how you consume. Some peope do indeed stuck to one company but to say they are all like that is absurd. People who only subscribe to Atlus as one example are eating damn well, like 7 highly rated and very meaty releases in 12 months. Too much gaming for me to consume in such a short time and manage to game elsewhere too.