A rant has been published by The Inquirer which rather
grimly predicts the collapse of the entire gaming industry—likening the current situation to a similar period in the
80s when strings of bad games and console failures caused the industry to go dormant, and claiming that the industry is
a toilet that needs to be flushed.
The article cites the current overdose of mediocre, un-original titles, claiming that the huge amount of money required to develop them leads to publishers and developers taking safe bets on sequels. The increasing cost of games for no discernible improvement is putting consumers off, and the writer predicts that the industry is due for collapse:
"Sadly, the gaming industry is in a self-imposed death spiral. Everyone is putting on a brave face, touting the latest v6 of a game that came out before most of it's audience was born. What was a fun hobby full of creative geniuses and their mad art has become a grey corporate parking lot."
[via digg]
