10th March 2010, 9:20 PM
Great Rumbler Wrote:And thus, the last vestiges of the videogame industry as it was once known were swept away amidst a tsunami of casual-oriented motion games. The weeping and lamentations of the faithful were loud, but ultimately drowned out by the crashing of that awful torrent. Their prayers to the Gaming Gods fell on deaf ears and they were swept from the land out to sea, where the waves consumed them.
You're good... and right, too, for now at least.
Remember though, this has happened many times before. Every time it ends the same way, eventually -- the tidal wave of clones eventually come crashing down in failure as people lose interest in so many nearly identical games. A few diehard fans of the genre continue on, but most developers move on to the next fad genre.
We're still pretty early in this one though, so there's probably a ways to go... but the music games "crash" last year does give me hope that perhaps in a few years it'll die down and publishers will actually start funding good games again. :)