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For all of those who are complaining about the lack of games so far on PS2 (those who have one, and those who don't) Why? New consoles are always slow to get their major software. The PSX had Ridge Racer and a few others at the start, but although they were groundbreaking games at the time, the really good stuff came out later on, once enough companies had got used to writing for the machine.
With any console these days it's easy to get disillusioned by the state of the games market. We aren't seeing the amount of originality or groundbreaking efforts at the moment that were evident at the last group of console releases, but the good games for Dreamcast and PS2 are slowly trickling through. It's often the case that not a lot of software gets released at one time, so it's easy to miss the fact that there are a pile of modern classics already being released.
In the dim and distant past, Sonic, Mario and a host of stars shone brighter than any other games. They were new and fresh, but so was console gaming in general. Now, with TV coverage and more and more of the general public getting in to gaming, the games have to appeal to a wide ranging audience. But there are still games events we should all rejoice about, the release of new consoles is still a big thing to us and it's up to you to make it exciting again.
And people, don't start fighting over whether console companies will survive, if one goes we lose a piece of gaming forever and that would be real bad for all of us, whatever company we support.
With any console these days it's easy to get disillusioned by the state of the games market. We aren't seeing the amount of originality or groundbreaking efforts at the moment that were evident at the last group of console releases, but the good games for Dreamcast and PS2 are slowly trickling through. It's often the case that not a lot of software gets released at one time, so it's easy to miss the fact that there are a pile of modern classics already being released.
In the dim and distant past, Sonic, Mario and a host of stars shone brighter than any other games. They were new and fresh, but so was console gaming in general. Now, with TV coverage and more and more of the general public getting in to gaming, the games have to appeal to a wide ranging audience. But there are still games events we should all rejoice about, the release of new consoles is still a big thing to us and it's up to you to make it exciting again.
And people, don't start fighting over whether console companies will survive, if one goes we lose a piece of gaming forever and that would be real bad for all of us, whatever company we support.
The PS brought consoles to the mainstream in a new way... and with such a public prominance people have expectations of professionalism and results...
When the PS2 was released people expected that both Sony and the software houses develooping for would have been better prepared both in the nuber of hardware units and the number of software titles avalible.
Its not that people expected to have an automatic back catalouge, but people did want a steady stream of games comming out, with a few classics thrown in at the start to keep everyone busy, whilst salavaying for more...
Whilst sequals and copys of games are the mainsaty of software and provide good quality games, its originality that keeps the gameing industry alive... without new game type people would eventually get bored of the avalible genres and find other forms of enterainment.
Classically its the PC (whether IBM or Amiga or Speccy, etc) that introduces the a new genre to the world market, mainly because its easier, cheaper and safer to develop within this market... Although as Looking Glass discovered, not always survivable.
This isnt to say that console titles are never innovative or break new ground. The Sonic and especially Mario titles whenever released redifine the plaforming genre, by not only being the best designed games of their type, but by also including more innovation than most games even pretend to have.
Its the community surrounding the console that makes it exciting, and consoles need to earn a community, they never deserve one, one of the reasons people are being so wary about the X-Box is that people are unsure what to expect, whether the console will proove to be a hit or a miss...
The survival of a console has nothing to do with our discussons. Members of different communities will have different view points, its always been this way, from Atari Vs. Intellivision in the 80's. Although no-one is ever happy to see a format stop production, no matter which console to support. However asking gamers to stop discussion consoles, their merits a losses, which will fail and which will succed, and why is no different to a conversation on football... noone ever says you shouldnt discuss which team is going to be relegated...
When the PS2 was released people expected that both Sony and the software houses develooping for would have been better prepared both in the nuber of hardware units and the number of software titles avalible.
Its not that people expected to have an automatic back catalouge, but people did want a steady stream of games comming out, with a few classics thrown in at the start to keep everyone busy, whilst salavaying for more...
Whilst sequals and copys of games are the mainsaty of software and provide good quality games, its originality that keeps the gameing industry alive... without new game type people would eventually get bored of the avalible genres and find other forms of enterainment.
Classically its the PC (whether IBM or Amiga or Speccy, etc) that introduces the a new genre to the world market, mainly because its easier, cheaper and safer to develop within this market... Although as Looking Glass discovered, not always survivable.
This isnt to say that console titles are never innovative or break new ground. The Sonic and especially Mario titles whenever released redifine the plaforming genre, by not only being the best designed games of their type, but by also including more innovation than most games even pretend to have.
Its the community surrounding the console that makes it exciting, and consoles need to earn a community, they never deserve one, one of the reasons people are being so wary about the X-Box is that people are unsure what to expect, whether the console will proove to be a hit or a miss...
The survival of a console has nothing to do with our discussons. Members of different communities will have different view points, its always been this way, from Atari Vs. Intellivision in the 80's. Although no-one is ever happy to see a format stop production, no matter which console to support. However asking gamers to stop discussion consoles, their merits a losses, which will fail and which will succed, and why is no different to a conversation on football... noone ever says you shouldnt discuss which team is going to be relegated...
There's a distant lack of software, in a few low months of the gaming market. And that's during the summer, the market is not known to even bring a decent game in that month since Perfect Dark, the market is lowly and developers don't really bother with that month so much. Christmas is the month for developers to make most money out of, if Perfect Dark worked out loads of money during the summer that was because it was the only unique game to be released then, if some other releases were done they would of got the same reception but still the less money they make through doing that sometimes.
For all of those who are complaining about the lack of games so far on PS2 (those who have one, and those who don't) Why? New consoles are always slow to get their major software. The PSX had Ridge Racer and a few others at the start, but although they were groundbreaking games at the time, the really good stuff came out later on, once enough companies had got used to writing for the machine.
With any console these days it's easy to get disillusioned by the state of the games market. We aren't seeing the amount of originality or groundbreaking efforts at the moment that were evident at the last group of console releases, but the good games for Dreamcast and PS2 are slowly trickling through. It's often the case that not a lot of software gets released at one time, so it's easy to miss the fact that there are a pile of modern classics already being released.
In the dim and distant past, Sonic, Mario and a host of stars shone brighter than any other games. They were new and fresh, but so was console gaming in general. Now, with TV coverage and more and more of the general public getting in to gaming, the games have to appeal to a wide ranging audience. But there are still games events we should all rejoice about, the release of new consoles is still a big thing to us and it's up to you to make it exciting again.
And people, don't start fighting over whether console companies will survive, if one goes we lose a piece of gaming forever and that would be real bad for all of us, whatever company we support.
With any console these days it's easy to get disillusioned by the state of the games market. We aren't seeing the amount of originality or groundbreaking efforts at the moment that were evident at the last group of console releases, but the good games for Dreamcast and PS2 are slowly trickling through. It's often the case that not a lot of software gets released at one time, so it's easy to miss the fact that there are a pile of modern classics already being released.
In the dim and distant past, Sonic, Mario and a host of stars shone brighter than any other games. They were new and fresh, but so was console gaming in general. Now, with TV coverage and more and more of the general public getting in to gaming, the games have to appeal to a wide ranging audience. But there are still games events we should all rejoice about, the release of new consoles is still a big thing to us and it's up to you to make it exciting again.
And people, don't start fighting over whether console companies will survive, if one goes we lose a piece of gaming forever and that would be real bad for all of us, whatever company we support.