The Future of Console Gaming (and how we can stop it)
By Omega 2 Comments
This is my first ever blog (yeah I know I'm late to the party) and I thought I'd make it easy on myself by just copying a post I made a few minutes ago about who will win the "console wars." While I think the whole console wars thing is stupid fanboy fighting, and the only people who should care are the companies involved. I think that if Nintendo continues on their current path it could be disastrous for us. If Nintendo wins we all lose. By "we" I mean people who love a good game. You can kiss games like psychonauts and shadow of the colossus goodbye. If Nintendo proves to Microsoft and Sony that casual games can make a killing, that's all that will be made. We'll be lost in a sea of minesweeper, bejeweled and games of similar shallowness. No company will take a chance on anything and the casual players will never know what their missing. Because They never played Zelda, or Silent Hill. Those classic franchises we so love will live on. But they will be dumbed down severely. So you'll see Metroid, Half-life, etc. get turned into god awful party games, and mini-game collections or something similar. So at that point we either have to suck it up and try to enjoy Pizza Maker 4: Now with more toppings! or pull some homebrew genius. And of course stop ignoring those little known but highly recommended slices of awesomness out there.