How Will the Gaming Industry Crash?

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Danman27 on 27 February 2014

There might be a mini-crash, but I think games are here to stay for a while.

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etking on 27 February 2014

Pay to win, free mobile games and DLC will lead to decreasing quality and people turning away.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_video_game_crash_of_1983

http://www.cracked.com/article_20727_5-reasons-video-game-industry-about-to-crash.html

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chapset on 27 February 2014

Already has, the casual market on console is crashing hard. They went from being the future of gaming into irrelevancy, the one company that didn't put too much effort into chasing them is the one doing the best right on on the console market, coincidence? I think not.

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Ajax on 27 February 2014

If anything crashes, it will be Sony Corporation.

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mushroomboy5 on 27 February 2014

chapset said:
Not on Sony's watch, now that they are back on top again gaming will bloom like it's 1996

not sure if being tongue in cheek???

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sundin13 on 27 February 2014

Lawlight said:

sundin13 said:
Well the AAA market is declining but I don't think the video game market will crash. I do think that there will be a large amount of companies that will need to rethink their strategies and as such we will lose a lot of great companies to the evils of Smartphones (dun dun duuuuhhh!)

but seriously, I don't like where gaming is headed >.> it scares me a bit

AAA market is declining?

I'd argue yes...It seems more and more devs are moving to smartphones or spending way too much on a game and considering a game like Resident Evil 6 (which sold ~5mil) a failure and Tomb Raider barely making profit until a few months ago etc.. The industry is getting too expensive and is on very shaky ground. How long can we milk the big names until we lose our footing?

I'm not saying it will crash, I'm just saying things are going to change and I'm not really sure if it will be for the better.

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aviggo77 on 27 February 2014

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stabface on 27 February 2014

Microsoft leaves and gives too much power to Sony.

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NintendoPie on 27 February 2014

I doubt the industry will actually, full on crash. As people have said, it's become too diversified over multiple companies in order for it to just go kaput. However, I do feel like if one of the major console developers goes under, then it will leave a large scar on the industry. Each of them are important to the stability of this, the gaming industry.

There will definitely be a decline from last generation, however. Last generation was inflated due to the overall success of everything on the market thanks to the casuals. That's clearly not working out all too well anymore.