When Videogames Publishers Go 'Street'

Thanks to 1UP/OPM for its article discussing what they describe as the 'thugging' of the videogame industry, referencing games such as Def Jam Fight for NY and Midnight Club 3: Dub Edition. The piece suggests: "Whether it was established franchises morphing into more streetwise versions of their former selves or new franchises emerging wearing their hip-hop influences on their sleeves, it was clear that the urban lifestyle is being embraced by developers and publishers alike." Marc Ecko argues "I think the problem is that the games industry is generationally nostalgic", and Steve Allison of Midway charges: "The guys bitching about this new trend are inching up on 35 years old, and they grew up on old-school gameplay. They're a very vocal bunch, but they're just not the market anymore."

Comments

HEY! 35!? FUCK OFF!

[Turn-X Alphonse]

I'm 18, I was playing the old games,I remember pacman on my first console, I remember mario and I remember Sonic.

I'am the key market and I can't stand this "ghetto" crap. Give me greenhill Zone music over some crappy new rapper who acts like he grew up in Iraq rather then got mass produced by a record company.

Games are becomingtoo mainstream so they are dumbing them down and aiming them at people who may as well just buy a CD player and stop butchering something us real gamers adore.

Most successful criminals are not thugs.

[Adolph_Hitler]

Most successful criminals are geeks. Most thugs go do jail. The goal is to be a successful criminal. There is no right and wrong as long as you don't get caught.