Urban-Themed Video Games 'Basically Dead'?

simoniker writes "Midway CMO Steve Allison has been talking about why he thinks the urban game genre isn't worth entering, suggesting of the cancelled Snoop Dogg/John Singleton collaboration Fear & Respect, which was in development at Midway: 'We killed Fear and Respect... because we have enough data-points to know the hood thing is basically dead. It would be dead before it came out. And you don't want to come out on a dead vibe.' Do people really not care about GTA-style urban shooters any more?"

Comments

Re:Urban-themed?

[Marc2k]

Eureka, you've got it. Suck it up. Side with the Man. The Man would never use a benign word like 'Urban' to describe a Black/Of African Descent culture in marketing. In fact, the Man's market demographics don't even take colour into account, because the Man knows the real truth that race doesn't have any correlation to environment, culture, or income bracket here in the United States of Git'R'Done. Outstanding work, gumshoe.

Re:New Ideas

[sesshomaru]

Well, there is always the possibility that after too many incompetently run wars the military decides that the whole caring about free elections and listening to whatever idiot the clueless masses decide to throw up as maximum leader is a sucker's game. They figure General Strang cares about them and has fought for their pay raises and pensions, so why not just put General Strang in charge. All Hail Strang!

See Roman history for an example of an unstoppable juggernaut of a country suffering from incompetant leadership.

Idea stolen from Chalmers Johnson....