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GBA - A Wasteland For Creativity?

Posted by simoniker on from the parents-like-buying-dem-licenses dept.

jvm writes "Having been intrigued by heated discussions over licensed games and stagnant creativity in the videogame market, I did some investigation into just how many original titles can be found in the library of games for Nintendo's GameBoy Advance. Depressingly, out of the hundreds of games catalogued, only 9% are not licensed, not sequels, and not remakes of older games. That's fewer than three dozen games, and most of those fall into well-known categories. Graphs and downloadable data are provided for interested readers to do their own examination."

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  1. Re:Reasons why the lack of creativity by SmallFurryCreature · · Score: 3, Interesting
    Original games become ever more impossible. There are after all only so many things a person can do that is still fun.

    The only thing left is to make hybrids, putting more then one game genre together, or to improve an existing genre.

    Is this bad? No. All my favorite games had been done before, just not as well as those games did it.

    As for sequels, well it is easy isn't it. Try selling a game to a company it is easier if you can say, hey the previous version did a X amount of sales rather then trying to convince them that yes people will love a fat italian plumber.

    So this research falls into the category, "Women buy more dresses then men" AKA the "No shit sherlock" category. Still nice to see someone taking the time to put it all in writing.

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  2. Re:Reasons why the lack of creativity by PainKilleR-CE · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I noticed the article also forgot to mention something else that was blatantly obvious:
    The top two original titles (Golden Sun and Advanced Wars) both have sequels now.

    Of course, he also ignored franchise titles with original gameplay, such as Wario Ware, Inc. which could be viewed as a commentary on the game industry very much in line with the article, if you follow the storyline. It's much easier to simply examine the titles and figure out which are sequels or franchise games than to figure out what titles actually have original gameplay.

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  3. Not a problem. by raygundan · · Score: 3, Interesting

    No matter how hard you tried when you were a kid (and believe me, I did) you just couldn't possibly have played ALL the good NES and SNES games out there. I am more than happy to play these "rehashed" games for the first time, and am even happier to see sequels to games I enjoyed.