I wish they would, it's the genre that stifles innovation the most through developers simply churning out an identikit shooter when they run out of ideas...

I mean, FPS games in general have merely had cosmetic changes in the last decade, and yet they thrive. The core game is the same as it was ten years ago.

It baffles me.

I'm not so sure that saturation will injure the genre but I do think that the recent simplification of the gameplay will put off a lot of old timers such as myself. Almost every shooter follows the same silly recipe now and move away from realism and add health regeneration, re spawning enemies and silly weapons designed to be "different".
The way things are going now, I can't see myself playing newer FPS games in a few years, they're taking away some of the core elements, its like taking all racing sims and turning them into arcade racers, fun for those who like arcade gameplay but not so much for those who crave a proper, deep racer imo.

I hope not

It happens all the time, and all in good time too.

Nope. Music game's sales were way down last year.

Don't worry about it. There'll always be plenty of people that want to shoot each other in the face. This will never change.

I would say it's highly doubtful. The FPS genre has been the mainstay of the video game industry for at least the past decade now, and if they are due to die a death by oversaturation, either it should already have happened by now, or the decline curve is much flatter than Guitar Hero's, which plummeted in the span of about a year.

This. The first Guitar Hero was fun because it was original and used a cool new guitar peripheral. After that its been the exact same game with new songs and a couple new peripherals. If it hadn't been for Rock Band there wouldn't be drums or vocals.

Shooters on the other hand are really good games and the good developers like Bungie and IW know how to change the series to keep it fresh, like how IW switched Call of Duty from WWII to Modern.

Oh and also Guitar Hero is expensive! Unless you already have your guitars it's like $150 or something. Its almost the cost of 3 regular games for one mediocre music game.

No. The reason music games died was because Activision was releasing five Guitar Hero games a year, and they were all pretty much the same game (albeit with differen songs). Compare that to shooters. If you look at the three most popular shooters on home consoles (Halo, Call of Duty, and Gears), they all offer vastly different experiences. They won't die out so easily.

Well I admit I am growing tired of FPS games, but I would love to play KZ3, Resistance 3 and BFBC2. maybe Halo Reach when it hits the bargain in in 2013. Lol.