{"id":466,"date":"2008-06-24T18:08:56","date_gmt":"2008-06-24T22:08:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/?p=466"},"modified":"2008-06-24T18:10:33","modified_gmt":"2008-06-24T22:10:33","slug":"game-consoles-the-lost-generation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2008\/06\/24\/game-consoles-the-lost-generation\/","title":{"rendered":"Game Consoles: The Lost Generation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wagner James Au has one of the more interesting speculations right now:\u00a0 The disappointing sales of GTA IV in combination with the fact that it <a href=\"http:\/\/bits.blogs.nytimes.com\/2008\/06\/12\/grand-theft-auto-iv-didnt-boost-console-sales\/?scp=1&amp;sq=grand%20theft&amp;st=cse\">surprisingly didn&#8217;t help sell more PS3 and 360s<\/a> &#8230; means that <a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/2008\/06\/18\/why-gta-iv-was-the-beginning-of-the-end\/\">&#8220;next gen&#8221; games as in &#8220;great graphics&#8221; have stopped driving console sales and are ceasing to be economically viable<\/a>. Au further predicts that it will be a long time before the PS3 and 360 will be followed up.<\/p>\n<p>I like historical moments. This also comes on the heels of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/?p=365\">Wii outselling the 360<\/a> quite quickly after launch. Perhaps things are changing permanently, &#8220;better&#8221; graphics give <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/?p=442\">diminishing returns<\/a>, video games will never be the same again?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wagner James Au has one of the more interesting speculations right now:\u00a0 The disappointing sales of GTA IV in combination with the fact that it surprisingly didn&#8217;t help sell more PS3 and 360s &#8230; means that &#8220;next gen&#8221; games as in &#8220;great graphics&#8221; have stopped driving console sales and are ceasing to be economically viable. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2008\/06\/24\/game-consoles-the-lost-generation\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Game Consoles: The Lost Generation&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}