JRPGfan said:
New Halo game revealed at Inside Xbox
.... and its a arcade on the rails shooter O_O Halo FireTeam Raven. Was not expecting that.
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Honestly a Forza arcade would actually be better.
dx11332sega said:
starcraft said:
To influence Japan do you think?
Are these sorts of arcades still big in the US?
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people in california still play arcades in california not sure about other states were the arcade scene is dead . probably for california and other states that have a boomers/dave and busters/some joint etc etc?
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shikamaru317 said:
starcraft said:
To influence Japan do you think?
Are these sorts of arcades still big in the US?
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Not really. At the height of arcade popularity in the US back in the early 80's, US arcades made $8b in revenue a year ($21.7b adjusted for inflation), by 1991 that had fallen to $2.1b, by 1999 it was down to $1.33b, and by 2004 it was down to $866m. Today, yearly US arcade revenue is less than $500m, a very small chunk of the total US gaming revenue of $36b in 2017. There are 4 main chain restaurants with a heavy focus on arcades; CiCi's Pizza, Chuck E. Cheese's, Gatti's Pizza, and Dave & Buster's, between the 4 there are less than 1500 in the US, plus a significant number of movie theaters and some malls still have arcades, but many don't buy newer cabinets very often. I personally don't have a Gatti's, Chuck E Cheese's, or Dave & Buster's in my area (there used to be a Gatti's here but it closed in the late 90's), the only arcades in my area are in one of the local movie theaters (the other local theaters don't have any arcade cabinets), and a CiCi's Pizza, neither of which buys newer arcade cabinets, all of their cabinets are late 2000's models or earlier.
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Whoa! I didn't realise that arcade games are rare. Since I'm from California I see them in some places like 2 of the 4 that Shikamaru317 listed (though I always wanted to go to Cici's pizza but there are only 2 in California and both of them are down south, too far away!
) Hell my former local mall added an arcade place after I moved. I thought this was a normal thing everywhere in the USA.
Also regarding that Halo arcade game I wish they made one for the Forza series since my local Dave and Busters have arcades base on the Mario Kart franchise, the Tomb Raider reboot and it even has one about Rambo.