Gaming madness

As someone who greatly appreciates gaming, the situation seems totally chaotic at the moment. My opinion is that the Microsoft Xbox is the gaming console to go for but something seems totally out of place on the platform. Typically, the November/December time period is when the biggest games come out. You usually find two, maybe (max) three triple A games titles released so there is not a major conflict between the games.

Microsoft has gone and allowed many, many AAA games and this is going to ruin the entire industry.

Let’s do some name dropping: There’s Gears of War 2, Fallout 3, Fable 2, Mirrors Edge, Endwar, Red Alert 3, Left 4 Dead and finally the new Guitar Hero. By my count that’s eight top games being released this holiday period. Now considering that games have gone up to a massive seven hundred bucks per game, you’re looking at forking out R4200 for all those games (excluding the price of instruments for Guitar Hero, a mere R3200).

Now most people are thinking that all these top quality games are great. The consumer is spoilt for choice! Now the problem is that most people will buy maybe one or two of these games at the most. What this means is that someone is going to be the loser here.

Here lies the problem though, the gaming industry is in a fair amount of trouble at the moment. Massive companies such as Electronic Arts are laying off staff at an alarming rate and other companies are being delisted from various stock exchanges. Bearing this in mind Microsoft has single handedly destroyed the world!

Games cost millions and millions of dollars to create with very few actually turning a profit. By Microsoft allowing these games to be published now, they’ve doomed certain gaming studios. This is quite unfortunate as the above mentioned games are excellent and really should be given a look.

Either way, enjoy it while it lasts. I fear many gaming publishers are going out of business these holidays.

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