The State Of The Video Game Nation

Josh Hinke Writes: Remember when video gaming was an eclectic slice of nerd culture generally shunned by society? It was “kid” stuff, something that was associated with Saturday morning cartoons and action figures. Even some of the more “adult” titles, like Final Fantasy or King’s Quest was about as “mainstream” as model rockets or Dungeons and Dragons.
Thankfully that is not the case anymore. The games market has boomed to become a titan in mainstream entertainment. It attracts top tier talent, massive budgets, and some of the biggest sales of all time. From 2008-2010, games saw the height of their prominence, with sales reaching unprecedented numbers.

[miyamoto]

From the days of NES to Genesis to SNES to PSOne to N64 to Dreamcast to PS2 I remember the days when console games are great and game companies from garage to great are growing artistically and progressively. The balance of creativity, price and power and the quantity of diverse games.

And then tragedy struck.

Micro$oft Megalomaniac Money Monster came in with Xbox and ruined console gaming.
They think more money, more power, more hype, more FUD tactics in the media is the future solution of gaming.

Knowing its suicide to take M$ head on in terms of money, Nintendo was forced to step back, repackage & relaunch their GameCube investment in the form of Wii, abandoning core audience for casual gamers. http://www.digitaltrends.co...

Developers, big and small, struggled to keep up with M$ policy.
While it isn't Sony's style of most powerful console always wins Sony had to keep up with M$ and keep up they did. While M$ was pumping marketing, developers, publishers & gaming media with more and more money Sony stuck to what matters most..... making games to keep gamer come back to console gaming.

But thanks to mobile video games from Android & Apple, they are helping the video gaming industry by reversing the effect of what M$ is doing - by encouraging that game developers and gamers that "Less (money) is More".

[Flavor]

Are you serious?

Xbox gave domestic developers a platform. Xbox live invigorated the indie scene. HALO was being developed as a PC game, and Msoft chose it as their flagship launch title.

If it wasn't for a US company entering the console market, gaming would have stagnated - look at the quality of the stuff being put out by Japan. It's mediocre at best.

And I don't even play on consoles that much.

And saying that mobile games from the app store have been good for the industry in the same post.. look, bashing Msoft is soo last century. Go bash Apple or Google, catch up, okay?