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The next generation of video games
Ozymandias:
I don't even know where that Counterstrike statistic came from, but to site MMORPGs for highest amount of money made is ridiculous.
Of course they make more money. SOE specifically designed Everquest to be an addictive money pit that people spend large amounts of money on a year. They designed it like a drug.
The top selling games of all time are still console games and console sales aren't exactly dropping. Halo 2 outsold any PC game that came out this year. (Not that it deserved that title, but it's true.) Everyone owns a PC in America. Only a handful of those people care about PC games enough to have a PC that they can play the games on. Why? Because PC games are always trying to use bigger and better technology. That means that every 6 months, Joe Schmoe has to buy more RAM or a new video card if he wants to be playing those games at a respectable FPS.
The average lifespan of a console is 5 years. You buy a $300 console every 5 years to keep on the curve. That's cheap. That's effective. That's not going anywhere.
Most "innovations" that the PC gaming industry has brought are simply due to better technology. Not any real gameplay innovations, just physics and graphics are improving.
I like to think of consoles as a very standardized form of poetry. You know your exact constraints so you're forced to be creative and new within that form instead of trying to meander off into different worlds. You get much more intelligent games from consoles than PCs.
The only thing significantly better about PC gaming is indie games. Anyone can program for the PC. They can't really make much money, but they can introduce great new ideas.
Digs:
When will people learn that it is useless to stand before Nintendo in the handheld market? How many crappy portables will have to be discarded by the world?
c1utch:
I know i've probabally played more CS (if you count 1,5, 1,6. Source, and the xbox version) than any other game.
Ozymandias:
Sony's going to make a very large dent in that this year, I think.
The PSP is, unfortunately, not going to go the way of the Lynx or Nomad or Game Gear or N-Gage or Neo Geo Pocket or Wonderswan or my God so many people have died in the face of Nintendo.
It's actually going to be effective though, because the same group of people that the Playstation originally sucked into the industry are going to be sucked in by the PSP too.
Jiperly:
But if they do take over the Portable market, they will crush the competetion- GameBoy Sales, and now DS sales, is the only thing keeping Nintendo afloat. Well over 3/4 of their earnings come from the Portable market- if Sony or Sega can grab a portion of that, not only will they be more powerful, but they will in turn crush the only competion, and take a market that previously was making Nintendo Tens of Millions each year. in 2003, a found a chart(that has now since become a dead link) that said that Nintendo made a total of 43 Million a year- almost as much as Playstation does with their titles.
If Nintendo loses the Portable War, they're gone.
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