Console games are dying?

[Wanderlai]

No, they will always be around. Consoles have been strong since 1986 with the launch of the NES. The market may be oversaturated with crap but it can still support the Big 3. I blame the Wii for alot of the crap out there and the parents who bought that last gen technology. Nintendo makes alot of its profits from the DS line. The 3DS comes out 3/27 I think. I have all 3 consoles so I'm no homer but there are 3 360's in use at my house while the Wii and PS3 sit around collecting dust most of the time.

[Darth Urious]

I wish I had time for other games, but, try as I may, I can never stop playing this one:

[mmmbeans]

I think the problem is games take too long to get into these days. They are accompanied by pointless stories or tutorial modes. Then there are games that are way too long. Final Fantasy 13 takes around 60 hours to complete.

Back in the day you throw Mario in, choose 1p and start playing. You run out of lives then turn it off and do something else.

You weren't stuck watching some game developer born without an imagination but a gift for programming try to convey to you the worst story you've ever experienced in your life.

i rarely buy games that will take me less than 40 hours to complete. i'm not spending $60 on a 15 hour game.

[mmmbeans]

Apparently, Angry Birds is a better game than Black Ops.

Hey, he said it. :spam:.

i'd agree with that.

[iamcline]

PC games will forever reign supreme. More can be done, and more is being done.

Consoles do well for the casual person who doesn't care to throw 60 clams at a crappy game.

Video games as a whole are suffering because basically you play one FPS, you've played them all...you play one Sports game, you've played them all...and fighting games are a decade behind their time.

[88 Bronco]

Every generation of console has had it's share of shovel-ware, it just seems the Wii has exponential more than most. The reason the console crash during the 80's will never happen again is because everyone learned for Atari's mistake when video gaming was still a niche market. All the console manufactures require publishers to pay for licensing. When home consoles were new anyone could publish a game on any system and the console manufacturer didn't receive compensation. When the NES came out it did charge licensing fees, and sued Tengen over this.

Of course "experts" have declared PC gaming dying for years.

[stankowalski]

Every platform (computer, console, mobile device) has crappy games. This guy is half right. Mobile gaming is booming and will continue to grow, but no way in hell consoles are dying out. If anything they are expanding out. Look at services like Xbox Live where you can play games, watch movies/TV shows, watch live sports, etc.

I will agree that innovation is pretty low, but I still have fun playing games.

[Chimera]

PC games will forever reign supreme. More can be done, and more is being done.

Consoles do well for the casual person who doesn't care to throw 60 clams at a crappy game.

Video games as a whole are suffering because basically you play one FPS, you've played them all...you play one Sports game, you've played them all...and fighting games are a decade behind their time.

Sorry. In over 20 years of waiting, I'm convinced there will never be a boxing game that can hold Mike Tyson's Punch-Out's jock.

Modern consoles are more like PCs than you think. The advantage for consoles is that the hardware and software is the same. When you're playing a game online, you know your opponents have the same hardware. Faster reflexes, not faster hardware, determines the outcome.

[Porn Shop Clerk]

Super Punch Out was pretty good too.

Yeah, the faster reflex argument might work if consoles had server side hit reg and dedicated servers. And then there are madcatz controllers, smaller tvs, and bandwidth discrepancies.

Server host always has an advantage over everyone else.

Modern consoles are like pcs, except you can't mod them, browse the web, mod the software, record music, create videos or anything other than watch pooty movies and play pooty games.

Faster hardware on a pc doesn't mean poo if you have your graphical settings adjusted appropriately. But that's just too much like work for consolefag wrestling fans.

[KillerKat]

http://wireless.ign.com/articles/115/1155372p1.html

COD and Madden laugh at this guy.

And assassins creed. I got #2 and brotherhood and still havent finished those games 100% yet even after beating the storyline on both a couple months ago.

[Porn Shop Clerk]

I bought the first Assassin's Creed last week and quit playing it before the first cut scene ended because the story was so fuging retarded.

Mafia II was pretty good though.

[The Saltman]

:lol:

[Panthers128]

i rarely buy games that will take me less than 40 hours to complete. i'm not spending $60 on a 15 hour game.

I like games that get hours of playtime because they are enjoyable and you go back to them, not games that take 60 hours because you have to run around fighting a dinosaur for 30 hours to make your character strong enough to beat the boss.

I've probably played Doodle Jump for over 20 hours and sometimes the game only last a minute and it's over.

[The Saltman]

there are dinosaur games?