the fuck?
i bet so
FOH
the point im tryna make it i hate when ppl say why go to arcade when i can play at home but back in the day we had the same games as the arcades but still put our money in them is all im saying
I think you guys are forgetting the glaring omission in the ops ppst.
A few things… first off once apon a time… arcades housed the most modern state of the art technologies when it came to video games… and over time as consoles and computers became more soficticated, the " arcade" experience slowly started becoming obsolete. This of course is in the braod sense, and is only relevent to the FGC since fighting games themselves were technicallly a bystander of the greater motion.
The other piece is that with the rapid population of internent and social networks, people over value there personal time in this generation… they save the mingling to checking there “walls” or comments ect… people have become lazy and you allocate that with the interconnectivity of current video game consoles and there abilty to support anonymous online matchmaking, well its just natural selection at that point.
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Point I’m trying to make is that if you want to get your point across, how about trying to write a proper, well written argument. Preferably one with a thesis statement, and then arguments and references to back it up. What’s the point of claiming to be 26 if you can’t even write something that would at the very least past muster in high school.
Aracades might not be quite as dead if new units weren’t so ridiculously expensive to purchase and operate.
foh professor
Tournaments are our new arcades. Seems to work just fine, pay the venue fee, pay for the game you play, get 0-2’d and play casuals all night? Arcade???
Wait, on SRK? No one would read it.
“Console is not the death of Arcades… here is why”
thread title states that consoles ARE NOT the “death” of arcades but OP has yet to provide any reference of such [just a link to a video] or a valid argument as to why said thread is even in existence.
OP then goes on to state that he “supports” arcade by hating on peeps who would rather stay home and play on console [just like he does]. couple that with the petty and juvenile responses OP makes to most of the replies on the thread, it’s clear enough that this is a dead end topic.
flawed is your argument OP. closed this thread will be, hmm?
8P
my shit not getting closed… im not hating on people who stay home on console… i go to both arcade and stay home. when i go to the putt putt and see some new jack on mvc2 im quick to buss his ass. 50cent well spent no problem.
again who the fuck want it?
“Consoles” did not kill the arcade, XBL/PSN killed the arcade; or at the very least drove the final nail in the coffin. I’m in the greater Seattle area. The last “true” arcade around here closed down because of a snowstorm where they lost a bunch of money. The arcade games were loss leaders. The cab’s were there only because the investment was made years prior, but the “arcade” made most of it’s money (broke even at the least) from birthday parties, events, etc.
Gameworks in downtown Seattle? A ghost town with antiquated games; IN SEATTLE. You’d be hard pressed to find a more video-game-centric population in the entire United States, and it can’t even survive here. Arcade games aren’t being “made” anymore outside of Japan where geography and population density is the only thing that is making them viable in that market; not to mention most of them being supplemented with gambling.
I’m not usually one to come in and say “what’s the point of this thread?” as those type of posts kind of annoy me… but… damn. This post is the equivalent of “OMG Elvis is totes still alive ppls! I js herd him on my AM radio!”
That being said, I MISS arcades… even the coin-slot business model. I’m going to be 30 this year and I’m trying to slowly rebuild the experience in my own living space (it’s why I use American sticks/buttons) but I know my dream chasing is futile. It will never be what it was.
To the OP: Just stop trying to argue with people/troll them. It is only making you look bad.
i dont look bad. i clearly made my point… yall not understanding it for some odd reason
If “all of us” aren’t understanding your point… did you really make it? /treefallinginthewoods
Oh shit I just got trolled…
foh
You’ve made a coherent argument and a quality thread that right off the bat was composed of intelligent and open-minded discussion.
It’s an okay topic, the setup was just horrible and misguided. I think arcades should come back, but they can’t/won’t. You’ll find your one-off’s run by locals who miss it themselves (like the guy running one out of his garage who’s name escapes me featured here on SRK), but the business model itself isn’t sound.
That being said, the only way to make them viable is to offer something that can’t be replicated at home (like they used to be); but with devices like Kinect and the Wii, even mo-cap style games are being developed for the home market first where as they used to be developed for the arcade first. I have a feeling even as tech evolves and we get things like projected holographic 3D imagery with haptic feedback and synaptic input, it will still be developed for the home market first. Why? Because from a business standpoint, do you want to sell one unit to an arcade or one unit to every person who wants to play it period?
This goes back to the original (counter)point to the post itself, in that consoles can’t kill something that’s already dead; and they are… they are dead. This isn’t an arguable point; just because you live next to one of the hold-outs that happens to still exist playing 10+ year old games does not prove the point that they aren’t already dead as a viable business model. Every hold-out has something else making them money; mini-golf, bowling, etc. The arcade games in those places are usually poorly maintained, old, and just depressing overall.
I think the other poster who said that “tournaments are the new arcades” is probably closest to the truth as you can get; but even that caters to only one type of game (fighting games) and are very hard to find unless you live in a central point to the fighting game community.
This is the most ironic post on SRK. Congratulations d3v. You win the prize.
Wait, what exactly is your point again? You mean consoles are not the death of the arcades but something else is the death of arcades? What is this other thing that killed the arcades than? Cause last time I checked arcades are pretty much death in the US and it’s because everybody is playing at home or at console events.
Arcades are the death of arcades. Nothing is quite a zero sum game.
Some of the people who now play on console would have never given two fucks about arcades even if there were no consoles.
I see more of a issue of oversaturization and arcades filling a niche in the market that would never really grow. (Are the parts cheap? Are the new Machines cheap? Of course not.)
Just like you see a few sports cars driving around is why you see a few arcades around, they ain’t cheap and are not sustainable unless you have that shit worked out or are very lucky.
Sure some people walked out on the arcades when consoles came (Me rarely put my quarters up because I am ass and the skill gain would not equalize with the money gain) But much more people who play the games now would have never went to the arcades regardless.
Yet I’m the one whose articles are getting passed around on other FG community sites where folks are taking it as a wake up call on how to get their games/scenes recognized as legit.
You are? Links please!