Gaming industry due for a crash?

[Madman]

Remember there is a new genereation of players now. Our kids.

They are not used to anything better. Once they get bored, the industrie is down. Look whats it like now. Loads of NES/SNES and Genesis sites on the net. Maybe a dozend PSX sites. The cut it almost obvisiously. Ofcourse the accessibility of games is a big thing on consoles, and with several Gigs to be downloaded, the average gamer wont download any.

Give them a few more years, if they dont keep the gap to keep the now new player generation pleased until the next one is up, they will fail.

Also there is a big economic aspect to consider: EA owns them all for now and if EA goes down, the gaming business goes down. I dont mind. I just enjoyed Tetris Attack on my SNES along with my wife.

New game concepts are needed. Sony did well with its Sing star hooked to the webcam. Thumbs up for that. But its only 1 new concept. Gaming industry will go down sooner or later unless they try something new. I said that a while, now other people join in. I dunno why, but Duke Nukem was more fun to me than Doom3. All where/are ahead of its time (then). Sure Call of Duty revealed a new atmosphere, but as the article states, only very few games to make it. And those few cant keep an industry alive.

 

We will see a new run on emulation soon.

[Agozer]

Now let us all corss our fingers and hope that George Broussard isn't full of it and Duke Nukem Forever gets released before I turn 50.

[Wizard]

Now let us all corss our fingers and hope that George Broussard isn't full of it and Duke Nukem Forever gets released before I turn 50.

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Let's just hope before I turn 50.

[Gryph]

Now let us all corss our fingers and hope that George Broussard isn't full of it and Duke Nukem Forever gets released before I turn 50.

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Oh, he's not full of it. He wants the game out as quickly as anyone else, probably even more. I'm expecting some news soon since the Duke 3D 10th anniversary is next month so it would be nice if they said something.