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Forums - Gaming - Has the recession had a real impact on extending this generation?

MontanaHatchet on 03 August 2009
noname2200 said:
I think the massive financial losses by anyone not named Nintendo or Activision-Blizzard that preceded the recession are to blame. The economic slump (which should have been taken as an opportunity by the gaming industry) is almost an afterthought.

Erm, you know those aren't the only two companies? There's Ubisoft for one, Disney, D3, Konami, and a couple other publishers making money. I'd dig up the financial reports, but I hope you'll just go on my word and not really think there are only two companies in the biz making money.



 

 

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mibuokami on 03 August 2009
Alterego-X said:

I would say no, the HD consoles' failure will only urge a quick change.

Of course, Sony and Microsoft would love to keep the current consoles for a decade, but decision is not theirs. If the consoles sell badly, they might keep them on the market, but they won't sell more. It's always the most popular and successful console that gets a chance to stay longer.

Look at the sales of ANY past console. The last years of the generation always had decreasing sales, even before the successor's announcement, when the consoles got old. What we are witnessing today is the effect of the recession, COMBINED WITH the natural ending of a generation.



While they have no reason for major processor upgrades, they still need to release something new, to keep the gamers interested.
Motion controllers are one way to go, but unless they take them seriously, with an actual relaunch, and powerful lineups of exclusives, they will not have an impact.

With respect to this topic, I think it has certainly impacted some long standing policy (especially from Sony) and will be a contributing factor to an extended generation.

With respect to your opinion, I disagree strongly, the decision to accept a new console into the market is and always has been at the hand of the consumer. Any new console being introduced into the market within the short term future will be strangled in the transition due to poor economic climate. Don't expect anything new to be announced until 2011 at the earliest and more time still before they are officially launched




sguy78 on 05 August 2009

I just hope we don't have to wait 3 or 4 more years for the next generation.



Alterego-X on 05 August 2009

mibuokami said:

With respect to this topic, I think it has certainly impacted some long standing policy (especially from Sony) and will be a contributing factor to an extended generation.

With respect to your opinion, I disagree strongly, the decision to accept a new console into the market is and always has been at the hand of the consumer. Any new console being introduced into the market within the short term future will be strangled in the transition due to poor economic climate. Don't expect anything new to be announced until 2011 at the earliest and more time still before they are officially launched

I totally agree with the bolded part, and that's exactly why I don't believe that the current consoles can be kept on the market for too long, without the consumers' support, and the current consoles don't have that support. 

This generation already had great titles from every major genre, and most major franchises, (the rest of them will have in 2010). But what comes after that? Sequels with the same capabilities, but with new levels and plotlines? Soon, people will get bored with them. Even those who wouldn't have money for a new, more expensive console, would rather stop gaming than buy the same games over and over again. They need surprise. Uniqueness. 

If they wouldn't, we would still be in the NES era. Nintendo would be fine with still selling the NES for a ridiculous profit, and we would be fine with playing Super Mario Brothers 14. Except, that gamers needed the improvements of the 32 bit era, and later the new genres that 3D gave, and in this generation, either motion controls, or HD graphics. 

I'm aware that graphics became a commodity, and I don't think that even better graphics would be enough for that surprise, but they need to do something.



Strategyking92 on 05 August 2009

It has definitely affected it. But the fact that developers can't make any money is also a leading factor.
So there is no telling how the next cycle will roll, or when it will roll.



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sguy78 on 05 August 2009
Strategyking92 said:
It has definitely affected it. But the fact that developers can't make any money is also a leading factor.
So there is no telling how the next cycle will roll, or when it will roll.

Well, it seems like it's going to be a while.



Slimebeast on 05 August 2009

The extension of this generation by one year has nothing to do with the economical Crysis. It has minimal impact on this. The length of this gen was decided long before the Crysis.