Week 15: Game industry

In recent years the game industry has gone from strength to strength. Especially since it has only really boomed in the last 20 years which is wierd as it was only 9years since Pokemon Red came out. (Fun fact there) Gaming companies have sprung up all over the place in those 20 years with
Nintendo becoming a global franchise, same with Sega, Capcom and Square Enix. It has even grown
so large that there are now second party developers (companies owned by bigger ones) have joined
in the game.

If you ask people inside the industry what they are feeling about the direction games are taking, they'd say that it is pretty exciting. With existing hardware being able to do much more than it did before leads to so many more possibilites. This is even in all fields of development like music and marketting. Games are also reaching a larger audience than it did as those who grew up with games are now at the age they can introduce their kids to them and with more casual friendly games being made, it is certainly a more generalised industry than it was before.

To the game industry, coming from a money and audience point of view, these family games are great business but to the hardcore gamers, who do it because they like games and not bcause they are now like films, these kinds of games are a cancer. You could look forward to a game being released for your console and it would be a good game, with many good games inbetween. Nowadays, the DS is turning into a IMPROVE YOUR HEALTH station with every great game being punctuated by a brain training rip off and the Wii is unfortunately going the same way but having cheaply produced games that the whole family can get involved into. Off the Nintendo front, developers are backing away from the PS3 because its games take too long and to make and far too much effort for lacklustre profits. Which would in fact be decent profits if the PS3 wasnt such high end.

In the future we can look forward to thousands of cheaply made games with crappy touch/motion controls improving our physical and mental health.
/Rant