Recession Finally Smacks Gaming Industry

[cracklint]

Sales have slumped because the lack new quality titles. A good game immerses the player into that world. Few games released in the last quarter have been able to do that well. Not to say that all games released sucked in the last quarter, but rather none are worth the 50-60 dollar price tag. Face it, movie tie-in games released at 60 dollars is a joke. Most are uninspired with broken gameplay. Wolverine, though uninspired, has some descent gameplay, thanks to Raven, but still isn't worth the new game price. What reason does anyone have to shell out 60 on a game or 200-500 on a new console.

 

[bill gates is your daddy]

[citation][nom]skittle[/nom]I thought it was because of the pirates?[/citation]

They can't seem to make up their mind on who to blame.

 

[wicko]

"finally"? Please, it smacked the industry 6 months ago. 6 months ago, 22 out of 30 people at the company I was working for were laid off due to EA's cutbacks on its casual games sector. Nothing is recession proof, save for porn.

 

[RADIO_ACTIVE]

Maybe because there were no good games released...

 

[bill gates is your daddy]

[citation][nom]wicko[/nom]Nothing is recession proof, save for porn.[/citation]

Maybe they should start making more porn games? We could stand one more Leisure Suit Larry adventure in high-definition. Screw Crysis having all the fun on being graphically challenging to computers. How cool would it be to start seeing benchmarking done on Leisure Suit Larry – From Here to Boobternity. “...We will be testing the new HD 4770 in 4x Crossfire using the Bunny Ranch level...”

 

[antilycus]

this is old news though. The industry had a slow down once before, followed by a speed up and in April 2008 was GTA IV. So a slow down is only because of that. TOMS, this is old news, it was on Gamespot.com/news like 2 or 3 weeks ago!