Originally Posted by
Skyblade
It will hit a point anyway.
This is not the first mass customer rebellion against the gaming industry.
Remember E.T. for the Atari 2600. The game itself wasn't absolutely terrible, for the time. But it was just a result of having so many shovelware games thrust out that consumers didn't care anymore. They just quit buying.
Wouldn't really call that a
rebellion. People just found it more difficult and strenuous to attempt to work back then what could possibly be a polished video game back then, as there was no internet to show them what was bad and what to avoid. There was video game magazines, but even back then you couldn't always trust what video game journalists said. So buying a new video game back then was like playing Russian Roulette.
Imagine the risk you would have with video gaming back then. Only to find out it was a rushed, glitch-y mess and a waste of your hard earned cash. The wife is fuming. Your son is letdown. You wasted $50. Money that could've gone to pay those bills, fix up the car or the kitchen etc. Money that could've gone to a new bike instead. Yikes.
So when something seemed like a wise choice for a new game and Christmas gift; Americans just didn't know what to buy or trust anymore when it came that entertainment. American media also assumed that video game/s was just a fad that would die out within a few years too.
I say Americans, because there was supposedly no Video Games Crash in UK/ Europe. They survived on PC Gaming and The Sega Master System.
There is a rebellion happening with EA today though, which, fair enough. They are one of the worst companies ever.