The Top 5 Things Killing the Video Game Industry

[iNNOS4iNT]

The video game industry is definitely booming, with new games flourishing, especially applications, casual mobile games, and arcade-style gaming. But what happened to the hardcore console or PC video games—the ones we could sit down and play for hours? they are still around, and hopefully will be for some time to come, but from where I’m sitting the future isn’t so bright and for that reason I decided to look at some of the possible reasons. It would be a cop-out for me to say that the economy alone is killing the video game industry, mainly because people are still spending money, and if recent NPD numbers are any indication they are spending the little bit of money out there on video games. The simple answer is that politics and selfish greed are killing them off, but that’s not fun so below are the top 5 things killing the video game industry, in my opinion.

http://www.planetplaystation.com/features/2012/05/the-top-5-things-killing-the-video-game-industry/

 

[MOnk]

Not sure how you can say something is killing an industry that is expanding. I would rather label those are worrying trends. The only item I would disregard is the patents issue since very seldomly are those contested when it comes to games, most of the time it's usually patent trolls and that's usually when it comes to hardware.