Video game industry is facing a
really big challenge is because people are actually quit playing games. Like pretty much every industry these days,
video-game publishing is in some financial trouble. (What's
Killing the Video-Game Business? By N. Van Zelfden. Posted Monday,
Feb. 16, 2009, at 3:27 PM) Either
TV video games or PC video games are losing their loyalty players. From side to
side, we can see why more and more people are stepping out from play video
games. First of all, creativity; which is the most important reason as well.
Creativity may not be the right word for it but it serves its purpose for this.
Lets put it this way, if the price is going to go up, the quality of the games
shouldn't go down. Lets take a look at the most successful video game: The
world of warcraft. What made this PC game to become the most successful game in
the world? The answer is creativity with no doubt. But the leader of video game
industry is falling. According to Activision-Blizzard,
owners of the cash cows World of Warcraft and Call of Duty, reported losses of
$72 million in the fourth quarter of 2008. (They lost $194 million the quarter
before that.) (What's Killing the Video-Game
Business? By N. Van Zelfden. Posted Monday, Feb. 16, 2009, at 3:27
PM). There are many reasons that why they are losing so many loyalty players.
Creative again. Blizzard couldn’t figure a good way to keep the most successful
online game fresh as before. Second, The price is always a big problem of the
video game industry. December 24, 2008
According to iSupply, in November 2006 the entry-level US$499 PlayStation 3
console was made up of over 4,048 different components at a cost to Sony of
$805. (Sony still losing money on each PlayStation 3 console, By Tim Hanlon,December
23, 2008). It Sounds like Sony is out of their mind isn’t it? They are taking
their money back from each game that they sold. That’s the reason why the price
of games is going up and up, from $30 to $60 just in three years. Back to the
frist part, it would be really bad that people are paying $60 for a shitty
quality game. There is another very important reason that traditional game
consoles are losing their customers. The new gen smart phones and tablets are
taking over the world now. Iphones and Ipads are having the largest game
players in the world. Most of them are not hardcore gamers they are just
playing games for pass time while they are waiting for something. There is old
says would be perfect the situation now. For a new civilization to emerge,
another must crumble.
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