We're Not Dead

[Scummbuddy]

And look how closely behind shooters we are.  They're going down man!1!

*Special Thanks to Popular Science for not sueing me for posting this picture from their current issue, November 2003.

[Rincewind]

Oh, hell yeah! Now we're cooking with charcoal!
Pfft, who said that adventure gaming was dead? No way!
It is merely a bit... Tired.  

[m0ds]

Cool! I'm interested to see what the figures are like after the release of Broken Sword 3. I think they'll shoot up even further.

But then, what is Half Life II? Shooter or action?


m0ds

[Renal Shutdown]

7.6% playing edu-tainment?
wtf?

sorry, custard.

[Privateer Puddin']

7.6!!111oneone how could you get that wrong?

[Andail]

What a rotten world...
monkey island is beaten by "build your own dinosaur"

[Nellie]

How did they define 'Adventure'?

[m0ds]

Tomb Raider.

[remixor]

Actually, I have a feeling games like Tomb Raider ARE included in that adventure category.   They often are these days.  And I wonder how they differentiated action and shooter, because it seems to me shooters are still pretty much the most popular single genre.

[MrColossal]

i'm guessing action would also be platform games like mario and the such

[remixor]

Ah, ok.  I suppose that makes sense.  I still think the stats are totally fux0red, though.  I know there must be a lot of parents buying games and stuff, but it's almost impossible for me to believe that "edutainment" is more popular than shooters, fighting or roleplaying, and that RACING games of all things are the 3rd most popular genre and control 17% of the market.  I don't know, this just seems absurd.

[Las Naranjas]

Take into account the accumulated buying power of educational institutions. They have a need for edutainment material, plus they would buy a copy for every computer they install on, since they have to be legitimate in the fashion. The stats don't differentiate between sales and sales to consumers.

[Renal Shutdown]

There's 6.8% missing..
Are we included in that section?
The "obsolete" games?
Or is the 6.8% just Minesweeper and Solitaire?

Hugs
Iqu

Sorry again, Custard..

[Privateer Puddin']

hah np

[Migs]

I don't buy any of this.  I'd like to see the methodology they used for collecting this data, especially how they define this enormously broad category of "Action."

[HaddasDadsPC]

Edutainment=Sim Games=Postal 2  

[Domino]

I believe that more adventure games are needed on todays consoles!! I have Escape from Monkey Island for the PS2, and i would rather play adventure games on a console (even though i still have a ton on my computer). There is just something about playing Monkey Island on a 27 inch TV than a 17 inch monitor.  Its sad that almost every game coming out now is a shooter, and i wish this would change.  I also have Myst III: Exile for the PS2, but does that count as an adventure game?

Game Publishers (for PC's) should start crossing over more adventure games (to consoles) to a market that is flooded with to many puzzle, RPG's, fighters, shooters, sports games, etc.

Adventure Games will never die. I will always buy adventure games over everything else, but nowadays, there are not many left.

Shawn

[InCreator]

Oh deem. Excactly how many games are on this site? How many demos have been released? How much test-playing (which IS actually playing) does a creation of a one adventure game include? Did they count us?   I don't think so. It's more based on sales or something and that's true, shops are empty if it comes to adventure games... (but who the hell BUYS anything, anyway? ). It could be a waste of Internet