well, i guess we wouldnt' have pop culture prophets if people didn't come up with wild speculations and then announce them. As many of those people as there are, ONE of them has to be right, even if they are all unsubstantial.
some of the points he failed to make: most of the people I met in real life who game also game online. Many of them insist that gamnig online is better than gaming not online.
Also, yes, the customer base cycles, but it hardly shrinks. More kids I know that are Onion and Gorgon's age (you guys are about 15, right?) play games than did when I was that age. Their gaming is also more prominant than the people I knew who played. in addition, on the whole, the appear to have more disposable income than my friends did.
I *am* 30, and I've played games more in the last 5 years than I did when I was a teen. I wouldn't justify the expense wehn I was a teen. I'd rather buy records or go to movies with what I reckoned was an exorbinant cost to video games. I'm not the most fanatical gamer, but I play MORE than I used to. Anyone like me gives mroe money now than before.
Also, what does he mean by "crash?" that the game industry will disappear? Is that why there are new communities that are making money on it at this late stage? Did the Internet crash END the Internet? (I hope not, or else where am I typing this?) Sure, it hit some hard times, and I'm sure the game industry may. But that will just cause them to re-vamp. Perhaps game prices will drop. But Internet business didn't die. Sites like ebay and Amazon are doing MORE business now, and no company lacks a web site to for a contact with customers. A crash does not mean the end of the industry, or even an end to it as a major player.
Rolls eyes. Ok, enough of the would-be Timothy Leary.