chinangel said:
are we headed towards a repeat of the 1980 video game crash?
No.
We will NEVER have a repeat of the 1980s video game crash. Even if the market does crash, it will NOT look like that crash. I guarantee it.
And by the way....
and the new XBOX looking to be the biggest console screw-up in the history of gaming
I'm impressed that you can tell that with no information. Really? With the only information actually available being that it is going to be announced next month, you can say with a straight face it looks like the worst screw-up?
kiri2tsubasa said:
Does anyone who post topics like this even understand the causes of the crash? It seems that they do not.
Here were some of the conditions that led to the 83 crash.
1. Atari had a near strangle hold on the entire industry, which at the time was a very niche thing relegated more towards hobbyists.
2. You had the choice of 14+ consoles to choose from.
3. There was a significant lack of publishing control at that time. Any bedroom programmer could put out a game on the systems and because of that games that were simply broken were sold. (No not the popular use of the work broken, but games that were utterly broken such as not being about to start a game at all)
4. Because of their strangle hold when Atari went down just about th entire industry went down with it.
Those are some of the most prominent causes of the 83 crash.
5. There was a speculator boom of sorts. Not in the exact same sense as the comic book one from the 90s, but similar.
I think "crashers," as I will now call them, have limited information. They are very much like truthers, in the sense that they seem to all follow half-cocked sources on the internet that ignore any rational basis for an argument. The only difference is I am more tolerant of crashers, as they aren't belabouring human misery. At least, not misery from death.
Andy Shandy said:
You know what, bring the damn thing on already.
Everybody apparently seems to want the damn thing to happen, wondrously thinking that absolutely nothing bad come from a crash, and we'll have some magical, sprinkled with fairy dust rise of the indies that people keep harping on about as well.
And then we'll be stuck with a bunch of 2D retro-styled puzzle platformers, with a single quirk in each game being the only difference them all.
Viva La Crash!
I do sort of want to see the people who think they know what a crash would get them get what they are actually asking for. At the same time, I don't want the probable end result to happen, so I'm torn.
That's right, I'm all out of faith. This is how I feel. Something something something....
Xcell935 said:
Judging by companies horrible PR, scumbag business practices, and just overall lack of respect for gaming and gamers as a whole, if this kind of behavior goes on/unnoticed by the community (which so far isn't and won't be anytime soon...)
By that logic, gaming should have crashed like a decade ago.
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One shroom makes you small
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