wow! that's sweet, how do you know that? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas Ward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Gamers Discussion list" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2008 2:10 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Out of the games dimension
> Hi, > > Quote > firstly, independent gaming is becoming a lot more common, and while small > devs don't have the cash, in my experience they do on average tend to be > much nicer than the large companies when it comes to accessibility... > End quote > > Around a year ago I actually was talking to a Microsoft MVP about this > very same subject of large game companies vs small game companies and he > said something that is very interesting. Basically what he said was when > you see the statistics that the Sony Play Station has more games than > XBox or Windows, or Linux gaming platforms what they really mean is > games by major recognised companies like MGS, Activision, EA Games, etc. > Those statistics seldem if ever take in to account the small one man > operations that are producing games for Windows, Mac, and Linux PCs > which hasn't distinguished themselves as anything important to be > counted in the statistics. Our little accessible game nitch is just such > an uncounted and unrecognised market. > Anyway, the bottomline is that we really have no idea how many small > one/two man operations are out there on the web making games. > Independant game companies has been growing along with the web and with > the availability of good development kits for gamers such as DirectX, > XNA, OpenAL, SDL, etc. > > Quote > Most blind people are over the age of 60, where as most gamers are at the > oldest about 40. Of course in both cases there are exceptions, but this is > the rule. But when the generation who grew up in the 1970's start losing > their site, they're going to want games to play, thus there will be more > people interested in accessible games. > End quote > > Well, it really all comes back to the principle of supply and demand as > well as good advertising. Right now as you so aptly pointed out the > target market for most accessible games is between the ages of 15 and > 45. Those on the lower age bracket want games similar to the XBOX and > Play Station games they have played or want to play. Those on the older > age bracket tend to go for board, card, and other non-triditional games. > I recently did a poll on the Mac Visionaries list, and the overwelming > requests were for puzzle games, word games, board games, and card games. > Games we take for granted on Windows. > Anyway, I don't think we are going to see a major improvement in the > accessibility of those Play Station and XBox games until the children of > the 80's and 90's get older and begin griping that they can't play Halo > 2055 on there XBox 20 vidio game system. > Oh, I forgot the XBox will of course have been out dated since the mid > 2020's. in the year 2055 all gaming consols will be strapped to your > wrist and have pop up wide screen displays, killer built in speakers, > and can be attached to a docking station with a huge 65 inch wide screen > display. Lol! > > > > --- > Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] > If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at > http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. > All messages are archived and can be searched and read at > http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the > list, > please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
