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Re: Morning Mobilization |
Aug 17, 2011, 10:14 |
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the disappearing middle-class of gaming hits the nail on the head, and the pricing of games isn't helping that at all...if it's not the root cause of it.
At this point it's pretty much the disappearing everything-not-CoD issue. Look at console sales - Black Ops was a decent game at best (it was certainly a lesser game than MW2) and it's sold 23 million copies.
The previous 2 Halos, one an expansion and one a prequel, have sold far less than the 3 Halos before. I'd wager Gears of War 3 may take a drop, too.
Console gamers, who make up the bulk of hardcore gamers (though the pendulum is clearly swinging back) pretty much just play Call of Duty. It has a huge online community, so playing it makes sense if you want to do online gaming, but it's become very difficult for anything else to crack 2 million, whereas before Modern Warfare you had games doing it regularly.
Modern Warfare, and its successors, has pretty much become the CounterStrike of consoles - it's all anyone wants to play online and it has enough depth to keep fresh (people can argue this all they want, but the successful tactics of MW and MW2 changed regularly. Someone would innovate, good players would follow for, lesser players would adapt, the innovation was mooted, and a new innovation came up. Something that would get you tons of kills one week would get you slaughtered then next.) This will be a boon to PC gaming, but it's going to take some time. |
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