Console gamers literally are too dumb to play this kind of game

[Zeven]

"It's like pitching a flight sim," Allen says. And the publishers rattle off the excuses: 'It's a super-vocal audience.' 'They don't buy a lot of games.' 'They buy one game a year.' 'Console gamers are too impatient; they won't play this kind of game.' Console gamers literally are too dumb to play this kind of game.'

Wait… did you catch that one?

"Console gamers literally are too dumb to play this kind of game."

Really?

The above is only an excerpt, folks. Here's the source.

My, oh, my.

I suggest you click the link and read a bit before making snap comments.

[MadduckUK]

If console gamers are not too dumb to play this game, then the game will have failed in one of its key objectives. It is imperative that this game is too much for console gamers.

[Knoxville]

Most of the hardcore console FPS players I know do buy several games a year to be fair, COD, Medal of Honour, Operation Flashpoint, Battlefield, usually they're looking for something a little more hardcore in my experience too but perhaps that's just the people I play online with.

If they could get around the limitations of console peripherals and make the game stand apart from the other shooters enough I think people would play it, I'd certainly pay for a console version of something like SWAT 4 or an un-Vegasised version of Rainbow 6. Not all console owners are 12 year old Cheeto eating MW3 addicts...

[kalniel]

So it's all one big april fools joke?

[Pob255]

First thing is to define what you mean by "console gamers" also what you mean by FPS
Most are shooter game of consoles are not really tatical, they are spectacle. things like the old rainbow six games are more of a tatical simulator than a shooter and I can see the publishers view that the largest demographic of people don't want that.
They look action games not ones where you need to spend more time planning than actually running around the mission, shooting stuff.
And from what I remember of rainbow six if you try to just run around and shoot stuff that's a garrantied "you lose mission over"

But I am sad that publishers are only chasing the biggest demographic, there doesn't seem to be many publishers that are willing to take risks on neach market games or the smaller publishers there used to be that specialised on them.

The comparasion to Tim Schafer is good and it's worth mentioning that the money he raised is for the same basic reasons, publishers had already turned down his idea for a new adventure game . . .

It also brings up the way many smaller developers are going the self publishing route.

[Boomstick777]

Console games and console gamers aren't what they used to be. Console games are just as adult and mature themed than any PC games these days.

In fact most PC games are console ports, so to say console gamers are dumb is to say PC gamers must be dumb also, maybe even more dumb for paying extra money to play ports

[GameGirl27]

There's just not enough coin-op arcades anymore, anyplace.

[PowerPie5000]

There's just not enough coin-op arcades anymore, anyplace.

There's a few where i live, although it's a scummy town and you're most likely to have your pockets picked by some junkie if you hang around the arcades

[Adam_101]

There's just not enough coin-op arcades anymore, anyplace.

Totally agree. There used to be one where I live up until some years ago. Now nada, you get the large commercial ones, but for me doesn't have the same affect! shame really.

[Golden Dragoon]

There's a few where i live, although it's a scummy town and you're most likely to have your pockets picked by some junkie if you hang around the arcades

It's not that bad, I mean it is bad, but not that bad
There is a run down arcade near where I work, a few hundred yards south of central pier called slots of fun I think, that has a fair few old retro games, I kinda like going in there now and again for the retro rush.

[Zeven]

After reading through this thread, I actually feel kind of bad for posting it. It certainly isn't my viewpoint (not to that extreme anyway).