The Atari and it's ilk rose and fell turning into a swirling dust of the past. Never becoming mainstream or widely successful. But, it didn't end there for American game consoles fortunately.
A new American game console was produced(XBOX 360), and it has broken into the previously Japanese dominated games market to become a great success. 20+ million game consoles sold so far. So does it get support from Americans after accomplishing such a great feat? Not as much as you might think.
Patriotism is almost dead in the U.S. it seems. You'd think people would support their own country where they were born, where their families were born, the place they love, the land of many freedoms, where they live and their ancestors before them lived, rather than become lapdogs for another country while belittling themselves in the process. The revolutionaries and freedom fighters that died for the U.S. are probably all rolling in their graves.
If you don't support your own country who will exactly? Japanese companies have effectively turned Americans against other Americans. Americans are belittling themselves in this sense.
It's like an American waving a Japanese flag that says Americans are idiots. It's beyond sad and embarassing. What has happened to this once great nation?
You can support foreign products, but if their is an American version of that product at least have respect enough for yourself not to bash it. You're only bashing yourself if you do.
I can see it now, Americans at the Olympics cheering on the Chinese team and booing the American althletes while the world collectively sighs at how pathetic America must be as a nation.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but shouldn't putting advertising in games make those games cheaper to buy for consumers?
Take commercials on television for example. The sponsers pay for the content and airing costs. If the advertisers are paying to put their ads in video games, they are thus paying for a lot of the production costs from making said game.
Considering this fact shouldn't games be cheaper for us to buy? If this is not the case it would be like us paying for pay-per-view movies on T.V. which also have commercials throughout the showing.
That's idiotic is it not?
Maybe every publisher will start making Prologues of games, so they can sell the same game twice and drain people's wallets.
Call of Duty 5 Prologue comes with three maps and 8 guns 2 single player missions, Halo 4 Prologue 2 vehicles 8 guns 2 maps, Lost Odyssey 2 Prologue 2 chapters, 2 characters, 3 spells.
MGS4 Prologue 1 stealth suit, 2 maps, 3 guns. They'll make a killing right? Why sell a game once when you can do so twice, effectively having consumers pay $100 for a single game.
