The Business Of Videogames

I was saying in the IRC channel just a little while ago how the gaming journalistic society for the most part sees itself as a spectacle and doesn’t do half the job it should be doing on covering games. They give in completely to sensationalism and and hype to sell their magazines. We get ten Inquirers for every USA Today and that really bothers me. The only reason it got this far was because there were a few people who had nowhere but a few places to get their gaming news, but as we grew up the media didn’t. We still have nowhere else to go though so we keep on buying those magazines and going to those sites and they feel good about themselves and their business models. The only thing that keeps me from being genuinely bothered by this is that I, and I suspect many other people as well, don’t really take them seriously at all. Most of them really are nothing more than a spectacle.

I’d like to point out that some groups like gamesindustry.biz do a very professional job though.

That was a damn good article. Infact, I think it is probably the most important article Ive read about the gaming industry post-E3.

You find some very interesting articles, worth the time.

Very interesting read. Pity that the author’s inability to correctly spell the word “lose” detracted a bit from my ability to take the article seriously.

very entertaining article, it really puts things into the proper perspective that they should be viewed in,

“We may not want to care about the suits behind the curtain. But they are there, and the strings they pull make the industry dance.”

and what a finishing line

Hokku: GI.biz is the worst example for a non-sensationalistic news source. Here’s a recent example: “Metal Gear creator uncertain on PlayStation 3″ sounds like Kojima would defect from Sony whilst in reality this article only states that Kojima isn’t certain whether all developers are able to meet the high standards Sony demands. They do this quite often, sadly.

But, on the other side, their articles are very well written and their editorials are some of the best around. I read them daily, but avoid getting too excited about the misleading titles and (sometimes) content.

And this article was a good read, although I think that the best way to make Nintendo look like an underdog is to stop reporting about them being the underdog

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I didnt realize the orange box was going to go around the smilies too. Ill have to fix that. Anyway, here are the codes for the smilies I have so far:

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FUSHI,
“And this article was a good read, although I think that the best way to make Nintendo look like an underdog is to stop reporting about them being the underdog ”
I agree that in the future this needs to stop, but for now I think it is a good thing. I think there needs to be an uprising amongst journalists to grab everyone’s attention and make them realize that things need to change. I’ve seen more articles about people being fed-up with Nintendo-bashing than I have ever seen before. It’s like people realizing that predjudism towards a certain group exists. It’s annoying to the target group to constantly be reminded that they are considered different, but it’s necessary for a while to get the word out so people realize what they have been doing wrong.
Also, the rapid increase in sites like this will inevitibly cause a decrease in the readership of the larger sites, and they will have to start writing with more integrity if they want to keep the numbers up (well, that’s what I hope anyway).

haha, “predjudism” isn’t a word.

Anyway, that article is very interesting. Enlightening even. Hopefully as intelligent people like this guy and others we’ve seen start to emerge, gaming can be taken more seriously in all of its advents and not the mockery of a real business industry it is today. The only thing serious about it is the revenue it generates, but if that stays the only thing then I have small hopes for its future.

Oops, I’m an idiot.
“And this article was a good read, although I think that the best way to STOP making Nintendo look like an underdog is to stop reporting about them being the underdog AT ALL.”
This was what I meant to say earlier, sorry for any confusion.

Hokku: “Hopefully as intelligent people like this guy and others we’ve seen start to emerge, gaming can be taken more seriously in all of its advents and not the mockery of a real business industry it is today. The only thing serious about it is the revenue it generates, but if that stays the only thing then I have small hopes for its future.”

Care to elaborate? What makes the games industry seem like a mockery to you? What does “serious business” mean, as opposed to “non-serious business”? What makes money an insignificant indicator of “seriousness”?

[Why do I feel like I'm being pranked by asking these questions at all?]

I agree with Hokku. I think Nintendo is doing the right thing: paving it’s own path through the garbage spewed by the gaming media at large. If there isnt some change in the way our medium is portrayed, it will eventually fall deep into the niche it is only beginning to emerge from.

“haha, “predjudism” isn’t a word.”
haha…thanks. It’s good to know I can come here for an English lesson when I have nothing better to do. By the way, you forgot your comma after “Hopefully”.

Ugh! I’ve just been having a gigantic argument with some guy that Nintendo does not have enough mature games… It’s so hard fighting off anti-Nintendo people…

I call anit-Nintendo people: Hate-boys

as opposed to fanboy; hateboy