No bad game, even E.T., has ever made a console fail.įurthermore, the reason E.T.
Usually people ignore the bad games and focus on the good ones instead. Good games make a console succeed, but bad games are not so big of a deal. That is because it had a ton of really good games too. It had 90% of the video game market at its peak, and it also resurrected console gaming from the dead. There were so many bad games on the NES, and yet the NES was perhaps the most incredible console that had ever existed. There is a Youtube channel called Angry Video Game Nerd, where a guy makes fun of terrible games from old consoles but mostly from the NES. That game really sucks balls!) But what is even more important is that bad games do not cause the video game market to crash. (Try playing Raiders of the Lost Ark on the 2600. It wasn’t even the worst game on the Atari 2600. You are right reader that there was a video game crash in 1983, but E.T. “It was caused by E.T., the worst video game that was ever made in the whole history of video games.” “That’s because of the Video Game Crash of ’83”, interjects one reader. However at first glance Generation 2 lasts 9 years. Every other console generation goes 4-6 years before the next generation begins. I put an asterisk by Generation 2, because it breaks the pattern. Why do they exist and how long do they last? Let’s dig deeper.Īccording to our common understanding (say on Wikipedia or some other common source), the console generations in North America went like this:Ītari 2600: The dominant console of Generation 2. But now I am going to reveal the secret about the console generations, so that you, reader, will know. Other than myself, only Satoru Iwata understood this secret, and he took the answer with him to the grave. Still not convinced? Well I can tell you more, but in order to do so I first have to reveal a secret of gaming that no one else knows.
If an upgrade with new games was a flop, just imagine how terrible it will be for an upgrade with no new games! Even though both of these upgrades offered new games, they both flopped in the marketplace. See, if we really want to understand the future of gaming, then we should look at what happened in the past.ĭuring Generation 4, Sega released a couple of console upgrades: the 32X and the Sega CD. Console upgrades have always done exactly two things: jack and squat.
Project Scorpio and PS4 Neo are just console upgrades. It does sound very impressive! However, it actually won’t help them sell consoles or games, because the exact same games will be on the normal PS4 and XBox One. Project Scorpio is going to have 6 teraflops! I don’t even know what that is, but it sounds very impressive.” “They are going to release PS4 Neo and Project Scorpio. “Of course they are going to show up”, one reader interjects. Well, for this next generation Microsoft and Sony are not even going to show up! How can Nintendo lose? But Sony just showed up with a regular plain old console, and they won by default. Nintendo showed up with a stupid tablet shoved into the middle of their controller, while Microsoft showed up with a totalitarian vision for the future of gaming complete with Microsoft Kinect TM. All they really did was show up! I mean, Nintendo and Microsoft actually did show up too, but they showed up with crap. Did Sony do anything radically different with their console this generation? Nope.
The PS4 is destroying the Wii U and XBox One in sales.
In order for a console to succeed the very most basic thing it has to do is just show up.
Why? Because Sony and Microsoft have decided not to show up. However all of the greatest games are going to be on the Nintendo NX. The next generation of consoles is almost here, and it’s going to be a very exciting time! We are about to see a ton of amazing games released for this next generation.