04-09-2003, 04:41 PM
You know, I've been hearing the same stuff since the first console landed in Spain in the 80s, "home computer gaming is dead! Long live consoles!". And I hear at least once a month "PC gaming is going downhill".
Yet here we are, 2003, and PCs are alive and kicking.
Same goes for the arcades. "Arcades are closing! Woe, woe, the end of the world!". I still see plenty.
Things change, companies no longer release a game every few months to make a buck and move to the next project. Sometimes you release a game in 1997, and in 2003 people are still playing it.
PC, consoles, arcades. They all look healthy. They are changing, they have changed over time, and they will keep changing for the years to come. Some will adapt to the changes and survive, others will not and die, and new people will jump in the newly-shaped wagon.
Yet here we are, 2003, and PCs are alive and kicking.
Same goes for the arcades. "Arcades are closing! Woe, woe, the end of the world!". I still see plenty.
Things change, companies no longer release a game every few months to make a buck and move to the next project. Sometimes you release a game in 1997, and in 2003 people are still playing it.
PC, consoles, arcades. They all look healthy. They are changing, they have changed over time, and they will keep changing for the years to come. Some will adapt to the changes and survive, others will not and die, and new people will jump in the newly-shaped wagon.