This is an idea I've had the past recent years, but lately given more thought.
As an outcome from this
other topic...
When did the "Videogaming Fall" begin for Konami? It seems the same it happened to other Japanese videogame companies.
They somehow needed to expand themselves on to other markets to survive the
future (
now) Japanese videogaming crisis.
Reminds me too of the arcade games crisis on
Japan everywhere.
Japanese game companies (most except Nintendo and 1 or 2 more) have reduced so much the quantity and quality of the content they try to sell...
The talent, time, and money costs needed to make games now is so extremely huge...
I never saw it coming at the time, so nowadays it makes me both sad & angry.
Not only that, but western companies are probably beginning to face it too, and surely will 5 years from now...
Did any of you see it coming 10/15 years ago?
Do any of you feel the same way about this?
What's more, do you think it is possible a new Videogame Crash happens?
http://tay.kotaku.com/are-we-on-the-cusp-of-another-video-game-industry-crash-1635286847You think it is possible? Can this mix of ingredients destroy the trust and make a new bomb?
- Rise of costs (talent, time, money).
- Rise of price on each new generation of consoles.
- Relaxation on the indie game barriers (specially through platforms like Steam and PSN).
- Short yet expensive inflated price games.
- Bugs everywhere. Everywhere.
- Abusive DLCs, instead of reasonable expansions.
- Smaller quantity and lower quality of games every new generation.
- Mobile/Tablet/
Smartphone games exploiting much of the above points and getting more focus from companies than dedicated gaming handhelds.
At least Nintendo still avoids most of those points. They could end up being clever once again in the end?What's more...
...Would it be bad or good, to have a new crash, in the long term?