18th April 2024, 6:15 PM
Legacy products can have a long tail of sales for years to come and are worth supporting to make sure they still work and are still accessible.
For video games, the general attitude of large game corporations seems to be "let the past die". But, we've just seen a recent phenomenon that shows that this is a terrible attitude to have after all.
Fallout the TV series just recently came out on... Amazon or Hulumon or Netflixmon or whatever service it is... Max! Peacock? Anyway, it's led to the old Fallout games seeing a level of sudden popularity the series hasn't had in years. Fallout 4 is currently the best selling game in Europe, apparently. My friend has been playing Fallout 76 of all things. I for one intend on playing a modded out version of Fallout 2 pretty soon. It's only a good thing that these games are accessible to this day and fully playable. Now imagine if The Crew got a movie today and it turned out to be popular. What are fans going to do if they want to explore the original? Suck a tailpipe that's what!
This isn't exactly a new phenomenon. Lord of the Rings movies led to people buying the Lord of the Rings books. That Avatar movie led to people exploring the original animated series about the blue cat people connecting to nature with fiberoptic USB cables.... I may be getting some things confused there. Heck if you make a biopic about a musician, their songs will briefly skyrocket in sales. Why wouldn't that be true of properties made based on games?
Companies just abandoning old games and not caring if they're still available for years to come are leaving money on the table. Filthy.. FILTHY table money! Get it off that table!
For video games, the general attitude of large game corporations seems to be "let the past die". But, we've just seen a recent phenomenon that shows that this is a terrible attitude to have after all.
Fallout the TV series just recently came out on... Amazon or Hulumon or Netflixmon or whatever service it is... Max! Peacock? Anyway, it's led to the old Fallout games seeing a level of sudden popularity the series hasn't had in years. Fallout 4 is currently the best selling game in Europe, apparently. My friend has been playing Fallout 76 of all things. I for one intend on playing a modded out version of Fallout 2 pretty soon. It's only a good thing that these games are accessible to this day and fully playable. Now imagine if The Crew got a movie today and it turned out to be popular. What are fans going to do if they want to explore the original? Suck a tailpipe that's what!
This isn't exactly a new phenomenon. Lord of the Rings movies led to people buying the Lord of the Rings books. That Avatar movie led to people exploring the original animated series about the blue cat people connecting to nature with fiberoptic USB cables.... I may be getting some things confused there. Heck if you make a biopic about a musician, their songs will briefly skyrocket in sales. Why wouldn't that be true of properties made based on games?
Companies just abandoning old games and not caring if they're still available for years to come are leaving money on the table. Filthy.. FILTHY table money! Get it off that table!
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)