Good post.
I really hope it is the start of the industry moving away from producing fetish games for its established market. They've been scared to do that for a long time now and it's kiling them.
Such a move would be great for adventure games because there's a massive untapped market that would love them but think that computer games are all shooting and violence and explosions.
People go on and on about the 'problems' with AGs and what they should do to become more like the games the established market purchases. Well actually, the problem is not with the games at all, it's with the fact that they are not marketed to the audience that would buy them en masse. The industry just wants to plough its established furrow and sell the same kinds of games over and over to the same demographic. It's incredibly unambitious, perhaps more so than ever in the current economic climate.
It would be great if the Wii turns out to be a catalyst for big expansion and greater ambition. Adventure games are easilly the genre with the most untapped sales potential.
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