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Where Have All The Sims Gone?
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Posted by Donster on: 2009-04-15 16:32:44 278
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By Matt Butrovich @ The Tech Report
Matt Butrovich shares his thoughts on why simulator games have gone MIA.
"Maybe simulators are just canaries in a coalmine, a genre representative of a much larger trend in video games: the move toward simplicity. Even before the days of Nintendo's Wii console, video games were becoming easier and more accessible, all for the sake of becoming more mainstream. There's no doubt it worked. Video games now generate $9.5 billion in revenue annually, but at the expense of the more niche genres. Sim fans like myself are a dying breed, it seems. All I have left to do is yearn for the glory days and start working on my 'back in my day' stories for all of you young whippersnappers."
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