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Do you think it could happen again?

Watch this video first.

I kind of agree with him, but he forgot that back in the 80s there was no World Wide Web in existence. At best, people could've comment the games between themselves in stores, in letters to game magazines. We live in an entirely different society now. Communication is plentiful, and thus the speed of spreading info on what's great and what's not is huge. YouTube offers us to see the gameplay.

Discuss.

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There is nothing to discuss. He explains in perfect detail why the same cannot happen again - internet communities, communication and maybe indie games. At the same time the big companies are making crazy amounts of money even when people know exactly what they are getting, so nothing is happening there either.

In short, it is just a random dude on the internet proclaiming something. Move along, nothing to see. I want my 8 minutes back.

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Well at first i was sceptical. I mean come on, a hilarious guy talking about video games? But if you make it to the end, that hilarious guys has an point, a very good one. Yes the gaming industry is shoveling their own grave by releasing a bunch of dung onto the customers which even have to pay for that.

In my opinion every game on steam should be testable by the consumer for one day or so but they won't do it cause they are too greedy.

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I don't find his argument particularly convincing.

If EA goes under tomorrow, computer gaming will still exist. Same goes for Valve or whoever else he references.

Bad games coming out now, do not un-create the many many good games that have already been created.

People will not stop gaming because Operation Headshot turns out to be bad.

Seriously, how bad would a game have to be to invalidate all the years of enjoyment I've had playing many games, across multiple platforms? It's just not going to happen.

Anyway, the crash in the 80's happened, and gaming is still here. For this simple reason alone, I'm not that worried.

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I don't think it could happen the same way because games nowadays are distributed on cheap-to-produce optical discs and even-cheaper-to-offer digital downloads, not costly cartridges. (The 3DS still uses cartridges, but I bet they're much cheaper in real terms than the carts of the crash-era consoles.) Online retailing also means publishers aren't beholden to non-specialist shops to carry games; even if every bricks-and-mortar store stopped giving them shelf space they could still sell and market games widely.

Technology's advanced too, to the point that most platforms are capable of producing visually and auditorially acceptable games. The advancement has also lead to diversification. Nowadays a decline in one type of game, eg big-budget "Triple-A" PS4/XBox One/PC games, need not be matched by a decline in other types of game such as mobile titles or the 3DS.

That's not to say an overall industry recession is impossible, but outside of a wider catastrophe we're not going to see game sales suddenly drop by 90-something percent.

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The crash didn't mean the end of gaming as a concept. It was just a crash of the market. The whole point is that there was a surplus of stupid games, so the gaming community got tired of buying stuff. Then NES came after a while.

I'm still not getting why I should worry. The market back then was tiny, they were essentially selling a niche product. And most of what was available were clones of what else was available.

It wasn't just the NES though, there was the small matter of the home-computer boom that happened in the UK. Sinclair, Amstrad, and Commodore all came to prominence in this period, and that's just what was going on in the UK in the 80's, while simultaneously Atari were burying cartridges.

Even during the crash there were innovative games that sold in large volumes.

The market is huge now. It's mainstream now, in a way it never was in the 80's. Good games will continue to sell. If people aren't buying bad games, well... should we be surprised by that? Should we be concerned by that?

I'm perfectly happy with companies that produce bad games going under. That seems like the natural order of things to me. Just because you made a game, does not mean I have to want to buy it.

I'm not going to tire of buying games because a certain percentage of the available options are uninspired. That's a ridiculous notion. I will still buy the games I want to buy.

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I seriously fail to see any conversational value in this. There are some non-substantiated and badly argued claims made by some random dude on Youtube. There is nothing to discuss, or we would have a lot of discussing to do on many other random Youtube clips.

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Well at first i was sceptical. I mean come on, a hilarious guy talking about video games? But if you make it to the end, that hilarious guys has an point, a very good one. Yes the gaming industry is shoveling their own grave by releasing a bunch of dung onto the customers which even have to pay for that.

In my opinion every game on steam should be testable by the consumer for one day or so but they won't do it cause they are too greedy.

Indie Games exist. I'll be perfectly happy if they become the sole method of good gaming.

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I think it is coming sooner or later, like everything else. Steam and the whole industry is getting cluttered by "unique" indie games with 8-bit graphics while big companies just release the same games over and over again. There's too much from where to choose and most of it is pretty much the same anyways

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