Slade Trillgon
Brutor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
232
   |
Posted - 2013.05.30 11:39:00 -
[1] - Quote
PurinaGäó 
I will just say, as it has to do with sports gamers and EA, I have thought the yearly releases on games like Madden and Fifa were a rip off from the get go. So this has been going on for longer then video games have been around.
AbhChallenger wrote:That was a pretty good look at history and where the industry stands today. However, I personally do not think the gaming crash on a scale of that of '83 is possible unless it is part of a complete depression across the entire economy worse than the great depression.
An interesting point. Hollywood arguably had its best years during the Great Depression as it, hypothesized at least, boosted the moral of the citizens as it 'gave hope'.
Link 1
Link 2
People tend to spend more on simple entertainment during depressed economic times as it tends to provide a relatively cheap escape at a local level. Free to Play games will fill this niche for awhile if pay to play game developers depress, as they appeal to very basic Pavlovian principles. I believe the 'Gaming Industry' will continue to reinvent itself.... which it has been doing for at least a century.
So, the gaming industry is, and will forever be, in the middle of a very interesting evolution. Gaming has been part of man's society for eons. It wont leave us anytime soon, it will just continue to evolve.
As Kirjava touches on below.
Kirjava wrote:A recession is actually a healthy part of a capitalist economy, cull the weak, let their capital be absorbed by the strong who know how to manage it, rehire the people and get the factories back to work. The entertainment industry has long had this position of trying to keeps the goods time rolling, and its coming in for a viscous reality check.
Hence they are banking in sequels to roll in and cut the advertising, pushing 3D like a crack dealer and making it more difficult to watch the cheaper 2D presentations. This video isn't just Video Games, the whole Entertainment sector as a whole is guilty of this,Sony putting a virus on CD's, the list goes on really with the MPAA thinking they can dictated terms to the planet.
Lol
The first paragraph makes it sound like you are a pure blooded capitalist, the second makes it sound like you would like to burn them at the stake. |