Warren Spector, l’homme qui créa/ruina les licences Thief et Deus Ex, écrit dans The Escapist ses reflexions sur l’avenir du jeu vidéo. En résumé : peut-être que ce sera cool et que l’industrie se portera bien, ou peut-être pas… Extraits :
Frighteningly, despite the increasing emphasis on the safe, the tried and the true, despite all that « pre-sold property » cluttering the shelves, despite big marketing spends, sales are not keeping pace with costs – gamers simply aren’t buying in numbers sufficient to justify what we’re spending.
It’s relatively easy for me to imagine scenarios where mainstream audiences get sick of us, sick of the product we offer them, sick of repetitive, seemingly-but-not-really interactive, emotion-free, slam-bang, U.S.-centric, urban, hip hop action games and alien invasion scenarios.
