Konami getting out of the console game...game.

Solid Snake · 05-14-2015, 10:41 PM

Honestly, with all sorts of companies like Konami flooding a relatively soft market for mobile games, I'm fully expecting a variation of the 1980's video game crash in the not-too-distant future.

Mind you, it won't be as bad a crash as gaming has been proven as a profitable market and there will still be Indie content and a smattering of AAA titles churning out of outlets like Steam, but we'll still witness a downturn.

The AAA games are going to keep getting more and more expensive to produce, the risks will grow exponentially with each market failure, etc.
It also can't be a great thing that games releasing now are already too much for the PS4 and XBone's hardware to handle. It's been, what, two years since release? And Witcher 3 already strains the PS4 to its limit with below-30 FPS dips.

EDIT: I have a gut feeling either Sony or Microsoft is going to rush a PS4.5 or an XBox1.5 following Nintendo's lead on the 'New 3DS.' Like, couldn't you just see that happening, the way consoles are becoming more and more like PCs and how they're using easily upgradeable parts? We can already manually insert new hard drives. There will be some PS4 iteration that's like, "Pay more money and you get a better GPU in there!" And future games will be compatible with the New PS4 and the Old PS4, but look better on the new PS4 and some shit. And it'll be awful. It'll have a profoundly negative effect on the industry.

05-14-2015, 10:41 PM	#5
Solid Snake Erotic Esquire Join Date: Nov 2003 Posts: 5,563	Honestly, with all sorts of companies like Konami flooding a relatively soft market for mobile games, I'm fully expecting a variation of the 1980's video game crash in the not-too-distant future. Mind you, it won't be as bad a crash as gaming has been proven as a profitable market and there will still be Indie content and a smattering of AAA titles churning out of outlets like Steam, but we'll still witness a downturn. The AAA games are going to keep getting more and more expensive to produce, the risks will grow exponentially with each market failure, etc. It also can't be a great thing that games releasing now are already too much for the PS4 and XBone's hardware to handle. It's been, what, two years since release? And Witcher 3 already strains the PS4 to its limit with below-30 FPS dips. EDIT: I have a gut feeling either Sony or Microsoft is going to rush a PS4.5 or an XBox1.5 following Nintendo's lead on the 'New 3DS.' Like, couldn't you just see that happening, the way consoles are becoming more and more like PCs and how they're using easily upgradeable parts? We can already manually insert new hard drives. There will be some PS4 iteration that's like, "Pay more money and you get a better GPU in there!" And future games will be compatible with the New PS4 and the Old PS4, but look better on the new PS4 and some shit. And it'll be awful. It'll have a profoundly negative effect on the industry. __________________ *WARNING:* Snek's all up in this thread. Be prepared to read massive walls of text. Last edited by Solid Snake; 05-14-2015 at 10:44 PM.