I mean, we see that Sega is going mobile (and it’s not working well with them), we’re seeing Konami going mobile and treating its employees and customers like s~~~, if Capcom fails again, we might see them going mobile…

And we see that a lot of women, if not most women preferring mobile platforms….

Women generally don’t like to play real games. It’s too much for them. They prefer mind-numbing games like Candy Crush and Bubble Popper. Men don’t waste money on stupid apps as often as women do. Men…..they pirate games. Buy used games. Generally use their brains to save money. Women mindlessly buy s~~~ (including games, clothes, and pretty much everything). Because of that, it’s easy to make money in the mobile market. Besides, there’s this big scare of the “death of the PC.” Personally, I just don’t see it. I’ll be using a PC for the next 50 years at least. Phones and tablets are just toys.

I think so, the whole move to “apps” and crap cellphone/tablet games is about catering to women primarily. The PC will never die because you can’t get much in the way of real work done on a tiny screen and you can only pack so much into those tiny devices before you start hitting physical limitations like heat dispersion, which means the performance will always be inferior.

Pandering to women is the death of good things. Technology and games will not escape being savaged by this trend of retardation.

will ultimately lead to the end of videogames as we know them and another male enjoyed hobby ruined as always

will ultimately lead to the end of videogames as we know them and another male enjoyed hobby ruined as always

Or independent developers will step in where the big money went off chasing tunabux. With practically everything being available as a download these days it’s not like there needs to be a huge outlay for publishing. Time was when you had to pay manufacturers to make cartridges, then prices dropped by going to discs, now all you need is a server and a robust licensing algorithm. So game prices go down, actual developers make more money, and independents, being independent, get to tell whiny feminist to go f~~~ themselves.

Jim01 wrote:

will ultimately lead to the end of videogames as we know them and another male enjoyed hobby ruined as always

Or independent developers will step in where the big money went off chasing tunabux. With practically everything being available as a download these days it’s not like there needs to be a huge outlay for publishing. Time was when you had to pay manufacturers to make cartridges, then prices dropped by going to discs, now all you need is a server and a robust licensing algorithm. So game prices go down, actual developers make more money, and independents, being independent, get to tell whiny feminist to go f~~~ themselves.

that is the only benefit of a download only future that I can see but I am old fashioned and like seeing a game sitting on my shelf. I know those days are numbered but they are being sped along by dippy femis and stupid smartphone playing women

I am old fashioned and like seeing a game sitting on my shelf

I’m right with you there. I prefer to have something I can hold in my hand, especially when downloaded things can disappear at a moment’s notice or at the company’s whim (which is why I will never own a Kindle). This is especially true if they expect to charge $50 or more for a game; at that price I demand material goods. This $5 off for the download version on a $80 game is bulls~~~, especially when the actual game developers likely see less than a dollar per unit.

However when it’s an independent things are a little different. If they offer a decent game for $5-$10 where I know the majority of my money is going to the developers themselves and not some middle man publisher, I have no problem outlaying $5. The developers get more that way, I pay a lot less, and at $5 I can burn the download to my own disc if I want something to hold.

Frankly, I like the way Nintendo calls games like these “free to start” as it’s the actual truth of the matter: starting is free, which attracts broke folks who feel they don’t have a good enough PC to play the latest games everyone is talking about and are too broke to buy a current gen console yet still own a current cell phone as it’s “a necessity”. This includes NEETs, broke college students, teens, the under-18 crowd, old folks and women who blew all their money on shoes or whatever. They’re like “OMG- all these games and they’re all super cheap or free! I can get like 60 games or more for the price of one new game and I don’t need to buy anything new to play! MUST PLAY!”

Of course the vast majority of poor people are poor because they have a poor person mentality. They haven’t realized that the games are “free to start” because they will cost a lot more than that $60 console/computer game in the end. It doesn’t help that a common habit of poor folks is that any money they suddenly get must be spent right freaking now before it “vanishes” which leads to them “splurging” on those “free” games they have been playing anyway. Also remember that the poor greatly outnumber the middle class and wealthy in the USA which means there’s a massive market full of rubes.

Companies have noticed this. Where’s there’s fools with money expect the companies to follow. Sure, people with actual computers/consoles or who have been burned by mobile games are catching on and avoiding anything that costs under $5, but breeders are making tons more broke rubes faster than savvy folks mature and the lazy breeders toss the brats cell phones to shut them up. Companies also know this which explains the kiddie-style graphics (that and crappy toony stuff is cheaper to make and use).

Want to fight the mill? Send them to Good Old Games or teach them the glory of ROMs which will run on even the crappiest computer. Also buy games. If there’s no money in console/computer games, companies will shift focus to where the money is. Following the money is why companies go mobile. Move money to move companies.

There you go!