Stupid article. Just because Microsoft is full of idiots, which shouldn't be news. I mean, let's look at the bad design of the 360, Windows Vista, and another handful of things. Microsoft isn't the entire gaming industry, sorry.
Let's take Sony's press conference. The Move, is not like the Wiimote. They look similar, but the Move uses visual tracking, so that pivoting is tracked and it's much more accurate and 1:1. And you know... it has buttons. For things like shooting guns and acceleration on racing games. Granted I don't care about the Move or the 3D crap, but the technology may become refined to the point where it is usable.
Let's look at Nintendo, oddly, I would say they gave us the best bit of tech. No-glasses-needed 3D. It's not perfect, but after refinement and some more version of it, we have awesome, awesome technology. You can't say the genre is on it's last leg when a lot of what was revealed is really neat.
Gaming can't constantly be innovation we've seen previous years. You can't expect every E3 to have a Milo, or a Crysis.
And remember, humans look back on old things, and no matter how bad they were treated at release, they look back and say "That's awesome, that was back in the old days when stuff was good".
I thought the article negative and not that well written. Consider the title which is Cracked's play on The Day The Music Died a song about a plane crash where Buddy Holly, Richie Valens and some others died in a plane crash. Nobody died at E3...so go figure!
Mankind is playing games all along its history. Gaming will die when the last human will be dead. Playing games is in human nature (btw animals are also playing). It is naïve to think that technical progress can change that (the world is changing a lot but human is the same: greedy, jealous, etc.). And there will be people (industry) that service this endogenous “demand”. Only form is changing not the core/sense. You are getting older, man: previous generation is always complaining – “What music these youngsters are listening to? What they are dancing?”
90% of the games that are on console are NOT on PCs plain and simple go to any gamestop or EB and take a look in the PC section then look at the sonsole section.......if you have never been sad about the PC gamming industry you will be.
You realize those were very poor examples to back your claim of PC gaming dying. EBGames/Gamestop ( same company by the way ) carry little to no PC games for one reason: they cannot be resold. Also, most people have switched to buying games digitally instead of going to a physical store. Now, if you want to claim the era of the brick-and-mortar PC game store is dying, i'll wholeheartedly agree. But PC gaming is not.
Go to Gamespot.com or other gaming review sites that list PC games and check out new releases. With very few exceptions ( such as the rare console exclusive ) you will find every newly released game and those before it listed for one or both consoles and the PC. You will also find far more games released on the PC than either console since the 360 and PS3 release dates.
As far as the article, although it is aimed at the 360 obviously, it also applies equally to the PS3. Sony is doing the same shit. They are trying to capture the "casual" player market, the mom's playing Pogo games and point and click adventures, those playing Facebook style games. Guess which platform owns that market right now? Not the PS3, not the 360 and most definitely not the Wii. The PC owns that market and has forever.
I own both a 360 and a PS3, yet most of my gaming is done on the PC. The only recent games I bought for the console was FFXIII ( which I regret ) and Red Dead Redemption. Final Fantasy has always been console exclusive except for two failed ports ( FFVII and FFVIII ) and the mmos. And Red Dead Redemption will most likely be on the PC soon as well.
-Letting Derek Smart work on your game is like letting Osama bin Laden work in the White House. Something will burn.- -And on the 8th day, man created God.-
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Stupid article. Just because Microsoft is full of idiots, which shouldn't be news. I mean, let's look at the bad design of the 360, Windows Vista, and another handful of things. Microsoft isn't the entire gaming industry, sorry.
Let's take Sony's press conference. The Move, is not like the Wiimote. They look similar, but the Move uses visual tracking, so that pivoting is tracked and it's much more accurate and 1:1. And you know... it has buttons. For things like shooting guns and acceleration on racing games. Granted I don't care about the Move or the 3D crap, but the technology may become refined to the point where it is usable.
Let's look at Nintendo, oddly, I would say they gave us the best bit of tech. No-glasses-needed 3D. It's not perfect, but after refinement and some more version of it, we have awesome, awesome technology. You can't say the genre is on it's last leg when a lot of what was revealed is really neat.
Gaming can't constantly be innovation we've seen previous years. You can't expect every E3 to have a Milo, or a Crysis.
And remember, humans look back on old things, and no matter how bad they were treated at release, they look back and say "That's awesome, that was back in the old days when stuff was good".
Don't believe me?
http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/two_worlds
Yeah... remember the flack that one got at release?
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Hey, they have a Sonic sequel. Surely THAT will save them!
Mankind is playing games all along its history. Gaming will die when the last human will be dead. Playing games is in human nature (btw animals are also playing). It is naïve to think that technical progress can change that (the world is changing a lot but human is the same: greedy, jealous, etc.). And there will be people (industry) that service this endogenous “demand”. Only form is changing not the core/sense. You are getting older, man: previous generation is always complaining – “What music these youngsters are listening to? What they are dancing?”
You realize those were very poor examples to back your claim of PC gaming dying. EBGames/Gamestop ( same company by the way ) carry little to no PC games for one reason: they cannot be resold. Also, most people have switched to buying games digitally instead of going to a physical store. Now, if you want to claim the era of the brick-and-mortar PC game store is dying, i'll wholeheartedly agree. But PC gaming is not.
Go to Gamespot.com or other gaming review sites that list PC games and check out new releases. With very few exceptions ( such as the rare console exclusive ) you will find every newly released game and those before it listed for one or both consoles and the PC. You will also find far more games released on the PC than either console since the 360 and PS3 release dates.
As far as the article, although it is aimed at the 360 obviously, it also applies equally to the PS3. Sony is doing the same shit. They are trying to capture the "casual" player market, the mom's playing Pogo games and point and click adventures, those playing Facebook style games. Guess which platform owns that market right now? Not the PS3, not the 360 and most definitely not the Wii. The PC owns that market and has forever.
I own both a 360 and a PS3, yet most of my gaming is done on the PC. The only recent games I bought for the console was FFXIII ( which I regret ) and Red Dead Redemption. Final Fantasy has always been console exclusive except for two failed ports ( FFVII and FFVIII ) and the mmos. And Red Dead Redemption will most likely be on the PC soon as well.
-Letting Derek Smart work on your game is like letting Osama bin Laden work in the White House. Something will burn.-
-And on the 8th day, man created God.-