| konnichiwa said: Too many games, yeah, last year had almost 19k new releases, that means it had on an average week more games released than the N64 had in its lifetime crazy to think that way. |
Well, when you look at it like this, they wouldn't continue to release them if they weren't making money somehow. What I worry about is people's time is a finite thing and in economic boom times studios can rely on gamers to buy games just on a whim, probably boot it for an hour if at all and then move ontop the next game and do the same. Gamers are now being forced to become savy and impulse buying becomes a thing of the past and with the higher prices no more buying games unless they are actually going to be played. Publishers have raised their prices on the idea that gamers will buy anyway, I think they will be sorely disappointed if not out right hurt.
Anyway, these problems are easy to course correct in current day. Maybe it'll just mean a redistribution of funds and wealth and the big companies are smart enough to reabsorb that wealth before disaster.
