On how much I hate that god damn controller and how the damn system looks like an Xbox 360, but there’s no need for that. The stupid thing speaks for itself.
Instead, I have only one thought to share.
Could this be it? Could it finally happen? Could the video game market finally crash and burn as you have been waiting for?
I know that you missed the Sony and Microsoft press conferences, but I’ll give you a very quick recap: one brown and gray shooter after another. That’s it. All with Hollywood-style movie trailers for these supposed “games.” There is no way console gaming will survive with those games.
Now that Nintendo has given up on expanding the market and no one else is taking up the reigns, there is going to be a massive, massive decline in this next generation. Sony and Microsoft will not fare any better. If they enter generation 8 with better graphics and higher development costs, I think it’s game over.
Maybe you should develop the Malstrom solution. Remember that theoretical console you talked about in your article that just put out 2D games? You should make that and get the millions of dollars you’ve always wanted to make. No one else is willing to do it.
America is still having population growth (unlike Japan and parts of Europe) so that would mask any decline. But one factor that is so important is that the seventh generation did not begin in a recession. It began in economic prosperity (2004, 2005, 2006). So the Eighth Generation will begin in a recession of such that is beyond anyone at Nintendo or any game console has seen. The long economic expansion America was in began prior to the NES coming out. So this is truly uncharted territory. We could see severe decline all around on the hardware sales.
If Nintendo stayed true to the Revolution (and didn’t go off track on this 3d mumbo jumbo), the ‘Industry gaming’ could very well have disintegrated and Revolution gaming would have become the norm since it was the only sustainable and growing gaming.
The complaints I am hearing from people about E3 reminds me of complaints the Japanese were making in 2007 or so. The ‘hardcore’ Japanese gamers were becoming extremely frustrated as it seemed less and less games were being made. The Japanese gaming market is deflating. The trends of population decline and their economy (as well as the earthquake) are not helping.
A gaming crash would be entertaining just to watch game analysts spin it. “Less games coming out are good for gamers… It allows them to catch up on work, get closer with their family, etc.” I don’t think there will be a crash. It would be more like a long decline like Japan.