EA was two years in a row. They lost the first round the year. And yes, if people still buy shooters, companies will keep making tons of them. I buy a shooter when I think it looks good. I don't buy most shooters though because they're beginning to feel a little old. New things need to become popular. I'm a little worried that this gen is going to be all open world games though. I love open world, but a few linear games is fine.

Yes. We are bad consumers. Ppl dont realize if they stopped buying FIFA and CoD they would make Activusion and EA go broke. We have created a monster.

I think turning this into a war of genres is a bad idea. All genres -- sports, platform, RPG, etc. -- can produce great games. I also think turning this into a war between "casual" and "hardcore" gamer is a dead end too. Like it or not, so-called casuals are video game players too, and they're often more open-minded than so-called hardcore players.

I think it should be about being more careful with our money. Think twice before pre-ordering a game, since it sends a message to publishers that we'll purchase a product based on its brand. Think twice before investing in DLC and microtransactions, which, in many cases, destroy the integrity of a game. And think twice before picking up that annualized release at $60 when you could wait a few months and get it for $30.

I don't get the problem.
Don't like sports games and shooters? don't buy them, there's enough other games...
the only shooter i own is UC3 and i haven't touched a sports game since the ps2 and i don't feel like there is a lack of good games to play for me.

Also seriously don't get the hate for EA, i think they rock since i quite like Dragon Age and the last nfs i bought wasn't half bad.

Who cares if someone is a casual gamer? It's video games people not life or death. Not everyone wants to sit in front of their tv by themselves playing games. This thread gets started by a Nintendo and most of the wii buyers were casual gamers. No one complained then. Some people don't have time to play hours and hours of games. I'll prob get banned for this even though it's not bam worthy

Maybe people like playing COD and FIFA because it's.....um let's see FUN

But is it unique...no. exactly.

where is the innovation in the industry?

all these shooters all look and play the exact same and I play a GAME for GAMEplay not story.

Say what you want, but I haven't played a single Call of Duty game in my life. I have played maybe one of the sports games for like an hour at my brothers, and the last sports game that I bought was for the sega genesis. I haven't put a penny in the pockets of those rehash abominations pockets, and I actively avoid supporting the companies that make them.

But yea, the majority of people out there are exactly as described in the video... This is why a lot of people don't really know what they are talking about when they argue about the console wars. Like it or not, games like The Last of Us aren't the console sellers. Having a lot of those certainly helps, but it isn't the big issue.

Bigger issues to consider are things like word of mouth. That is what killed the Wii U. Even if people were really happy with their Wii experiences, the word of mouth was sheer hatred for the console.

Another big issue would be that the Wii U's potential wasn't really that obvious to the average lay person. People have dreamed of motion controls for years, and that dream is what sold the Wii, forget how well the motion controls actually performed, people wanted to see it for themselves. Nintendo would have been smarter to release the Kinect themselves 2 years after the Wii first came out, then release the occulus rift 2 years after that. Pachter called it. Those are ideas which WOW people.

Well now most of the third person shooters can be completed running and shooting (examples that come to my mind are Gears of War and resident evil 6), good luck doing that in the last of us. 

Tlous is not a conventional shooter, it is a game were you have to think how to confront enemies and save ammo. For me that's not very typical.

Last time I checked a game was the sum of all its parts, arbitrarily divorcing story from the game and looking at it from a purely mechanical point of view is quite alien.

Because TLOU has guns it plays like every other shooter...you just invalidated your opinion right there. I can tell from personal experience that TLOU and Uncharted feel quite different despite having very similar gameplay.

And another thing, Innovation is nothing special and its not even entirely good, its just a marketting term.

@OP Gamers aren't killing the industry, its obviously ambition.

When a million copies sold isn't considered a success that is a greater issue then first person shooters.

Everyone is trying to spend hundreds of millions on games only to be suprised when they don't break even, cought tomb raider cough SE cough cough.