The Day the Gaming Industry Died: Impressions from E3 2010

This week is maybe the biggest of the year in the world of entertainment. This is when all of the games you’ll be playing for the next twelve months are unveiled at the Electronic Entertainment Expo. This year’s event, however, will more likely be remembered as the precise moment video gaming as we know it died a tragic and embarrassing death.

…it costs billions to develop a new console from scratch. It’s getting to the point that game makers can’t make a profit off the last console in the five years before gamers have given up on it and started demanding a new one. Which brings us to the animatronic elephants.
See, the console that “won” this generation was the Nintendo Wii, because Nintendo 1) designed it primarily to cost very little and 2) introduced gimmicky motion controls and other peripherals that made the console seem like easy-to-get-into fun for the whole family. You can stand in your living room and wave your arms around for an hour and have a great time. But going on four years later, people are starting to get tired of that, too–the Wii’s sales are plummeting like everyone else’s.
But this gave Microsoft and Sony both the bright idea that, instead of bringing out expensive new consoles at the five-year mark (the Xbox 360 has been out since 2005) they’d just introduce their own motion control gimmicks, and sell it as a whole new…

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