The Video Game industry is at a crossroads, especially in the West. China’s video game industry after about a decade and a half of hibernating under government regulations, is now spreading its wings. However, the video game industry in America and the rest of the West is very weak and stuck mostly on franchises instead of new ideas. Is it really a sign of healthy industry when we have video games that are on multiple installments? We need to have a healthy mix but anything new tends to lack any media coverage which causes them to be under the radar and have little influence on the people who are making the games.
Video games began quite successfully under the leadership of Atari in California, but the bubble would burst under the weight of too many mediocre games. Nintendo would save it and then competition would blossom between them and Sega. Other companies would join but it would take until the release of the Xbox for an American company to come back into the console market in a significant way which would actually have some presence.
However, the video game industry probably peaked in 2007 and the increasing popularity of mobile games on smartphones has made the video game industry a more brittle industry which is causing issues.
The video game industry has a lack of quality control in this age.
Many games are coming out which are not meeting expectations.
Increasingly, video game journalists seem to be trying to prop up mediocre or horrible games just to make political points. Such attitudes can only come from a culture of entitlement that comes in such circles. Video game reviewers should be focused on advancing the medium through careful analysis of games. They are simply becoming mouthpieces of ancient newspapers and television shows. Video Games have become a medium which become attached in a sense to the establishment, which makes them tools of government power. Instead of emphasizing the uniqueness of video games that make them stand out, they are being made into symbols of the degenerate nature of the youth. It is within the realm of video games where creativity is still allowed to flourish in some ways.
Video Games are not seen as art but as something that has to be manipulated in order to gain political power.
Video Games need to return to the realm of being pure art not just Panem, or bread and circuses. Only then, will video games be given the respect which the medium needs in order to change and grow.
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