Regardless of your personal politics, one thing is for sure, the re-election of Barrack Obama to a second term in office will prove to be great for gamers. With the economy on the up-swing, whoever made their merry way into the White House was bound to take credit for the bounties and economic boom that is at this point inevitable in the U.S. economy. Ok, enough uppity talk. Here’s why we’re in for a great next four years (from a gaming perspective).
As of right now, there are no monopolies in the games industry, and for the sake of the medium as a whole, they never should either.
And yet the biggest tech companies in America are essentially that. They buy up all the small comps only to kill them off and steal what they have, and if they can't buy em they bleed them to death.
They buy IPs not talent. That's why these buyouts never work and the IPs die. Right now it's too expensive to develop games - but I expect that to shift maybe as AI tools can make it easier. The best games have been indie games for awhile as big developers fuck their ips to death with "games as a service" -
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With articles like these cant you tag the games mentioned so that we can know ahead of time if there’s a spoiler to avoid?
Not clicking on your article otherwise.
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Eh...I don't see the 720/PS4 coming out until late 2014 at the earliest, not because of Obama, but because they're selling fine. The fact that Sony just released a SuperSlim confirms that the PS3 will be the premier Sony console for the next two years.
A President that hates video games is good for the gamers?
In before the Obama hate.
It's not a politics article nor a Red and Blue debate. read it before you speak your mind. It's about gaming folks.
Good for gaming... bad for the economy.
Thumbs down.