Its like saying most people will buy 3DTV's.

The video game industry is dieing? Then why am I still enjoying new games?

Its not that people aren't buying games, its that there is just so much shit pouring out of every crevasse of the bloated video game industry. Developers are releasing unfinished gaames, games are costing full price and only lasting 6 hours and we keep seeing the same thing again and again. People are buying games, just the games worth buying. Right now I want 10 games this fall, that's $600 most people don't have. I'll probably buy 5 of them and that's still a lot for some people. Overpriced motion control gimmicks won't save anything, if something needed saving. You expect me to spend $100+ on motion control and the $60 on games that are absolute garbage or would probably be better off designed for the controller.

Why does the gaming industry need saving?? Motion controls will broaden the industry, not save it.

$70 + tax games need to go. If anything is hurting the industry, it's that. See Alan Wake.

all the industry needs is to go back to the PS1 and PS2 days when games were diverse and imaginative. too many FPSs has narrowed the demographic so much that even games like RAC have been hit hard

The industry is fine. And yet again we are all reading a crap article from a no name, who really has nothing to do with anything

Why on Earth would anyone buy games when you can rent them for a fraction of the price? A 3D action game, or any non multiplayer game becomes a paperweight the moment you complete it. The average adventure takes about 12 hours of gameplay to finish. Is that worth 60 dollars? Not to me. I'd rather rent 3 or 4 per month for 17 dollars.

Quite the dramatic title, it is not like the industry is on the verge of collapse.

Funny enough we may blame Wii software sales drop as one of the reason this year hasnt been that hot. The xbox has been stagnant if not slightly dropping as well. PS3 is the only console with a solid YoY growth software wise.

Besides individual console considerations, it is possible to argue people invest too much time in a handful of multiplayer games, perhaps just one or two. Halo fans will get their long standing fix with Reach, and COD fans will get Black Ops (MW2 is still selling well). On the Sony side GT fanbase will finally get GT5. I easily can see millions of gamers playing only one or two games for a long time and skipping everything else.

The industry needs to be saved? I thought we were just going through a rough patch where people put paying their bills over entertainment like games and movies. Check it son, this is basic economics. When hard times hit, people re-prioritize their agendas. The Game Industry isn't the only one that got hit.

And NO, motion controllers won't save the industry. Game Sales and Console Sales will.

The game industry is just fine.

The real issue is the cost of making a AAA game with graphics/voice actors with really only less than 10 hours of content.

Once companies start making original good games again, motion controls will be worthless

Jesus fuck. No other form of mass entertainment costs 60 dollars. This industry has been vastly overpriced since its fucking inception. People steal 10 dollar music discs like fucking candies. Thus industry has made people rich by the thousands while alienating its consumers because of quality versus price issues. Nobody is buying because we are starting to see that this shit is waaaaaaay overpriced. Only fucking morons buy every CoD and every map pack that comes with each and every game. Anybody that actually believes these fucking greedy execs that make 'no money' are fucking kidding themselves. It doesn't cost more than 30 million hard money to fund any of these games and I mean ANY of them at salaries that would make your daddy blush. 100 people that make 100k would cost 10 million times 2 years is 20 million. Not everybody makes 100k and this shit is relative. Nobody NEEDS more than 100k a year and some make millions aka CEO's and some make 40k a year aka artists. 60 dollars times 500k sales. Get the fucking picture? Don't support these greedy fucks at that price point EVER.

GT5 may be the only game actually worth 60 dollars imo. It is all really relative. If you are going to spend 2000 hours in a game then go ahead. But people that just randomly hand out 60 bucks for shit games should be shot and made to feed children and pay bills and be responsible.

The same problem that the banking industry suffer's from, I work for the bank industry I would know. They make 10000 focus groups and survey's in which it shows that people want lower apr's on there credit card loans cuz the banks raping them but the banks response is: Hey maybe they want better customer interaction!!!!

How bout lowering the game prices back to what it should be? 50 bucks and lowering the cost of the systems? The fuggin xbox is 7 year ol tech still selling for 199 with no hd when 199 was the price of a console at launch back when you could get a job almost anywhere.

I agree with most of you, considering we are in another year of recession I think the game industry is holding its own just fine. I am more worried that this whole motion control thing will hurt things, not make them better. It sort of feels like Nintendo sold tons of consoles by tricking the non-gamers into buying them, and now Sony & Microsoft are putting all their eggs into the motion control basket, but if the casuals don't bite and the hardcore decide not to be interested, they will both end up with a basket of rotten eggs. Should be interesting, and in the meanwhile I will just stock up on games to play should we hit a shovelware caused gaming drought.

From what?

I think a more interesting article would be - Can motion controllers kill the game industry?

from what?the game industry is fine money wise..

stupid title.

No the fan base is dieing and it's because the industry does understand why some of us keep playing. Instead we are lumped into one stereo type hardcore. That stereo type isn't even correct any more it mostly has been turned into a casual graphic or tech whore wish on a star type of gamer. The hardcore was always about gamers being good at games. It was about skill not stories. It just made gaming more addictive rather than contractual like cell phones or expensive tech gambles.

Tell me again how the multiplatform strategy was supposed to fix everything. Look at your results and compare them to Nintendo, which keeps thriving with exclusives. Your loyal fans are gone. And let’s not forget the pile of IPs you purchased only to let them rot.

The worst thing is this is down from last years numbers/expectations which was down from the previous years numbers/expectations. You think about how long “down” has been a consistent part of the communication and you realize those subscriptions are what’s holding that boat together. The price cut of gamespass is still a price raise in a string of price raises. They are trying to use players to offset the missing revenue. Now call of duty is out of gamespass, which is literally WHY they bought the company. To draw people to the subscription. They realized they missed a boatload of money and that wasn’t sustainable. Now you pay for it like you would have if they never bought the company… so why buy the company? Mind you those billions still need to be paid back. Yeah it gives you a chance to say we make the biggest FPS… but the internal conversations must be brutal at high level on topics that really matter. Like revenue. Profitability. And ROI for the shopping spree.

Is this like the 10th quarter in a row they're down 33% on hardware how is that even mathematically possible. You would think their mediocrity would Plateau