I don’t remember the exact source but I read an article a month or so ago on how the game industry is heading in the direction of 5$ and 3$ and 7$ mobile games for iphone, android, and so on. Frankly, when I read that, I was a bit frightened by the idea. I maintain the stance that video games are an art form, just as much as movies, painting, music, etc. Sure they are meant to entertain us, but so are the movies and music for the most part, and just like those media, they are capable of going far beyond that. Maybe I’m biased because I don’t have an iphone or an android and I haven’t really gotten into mobile games, but it seems to me like most of these games are five minute time wasters, not meant to really take us into a new zone, but meant to keep us busy for a few minutes while we wait at the doctors office or whatever. While I have no problem with these games for being just that, I fear that the more intense, often story filled experiences seen with console games will disappear off the map, and the market will be inundated with nothing but angry birds, and bejeweled. Of course I may be biased. I realize there are action adventure games, and rpgs on these forms of media, and games of this nature are becoming more common, and technology expands allowing more and more types of games to fit in to this kind of media, but I’m still partial to the consoles, even handheld consoles. I don’t want to see the kind of rich gaming experiences I’ve had throughout my life become a thing of the past. Even the relatively plot less super mario games, took me on a romp through an unforgettably surreal and playful fantasy landscape. Can gaming as we know it survive a transition away from consoles? Will video game consoles become a thing of the past?
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