What are the biggest historical mistakes committed by the video game industry?

[Andrew NDB]

Originally Posted by CyberCubed

The funny thing is despite Nintendo losing ground to Sony with N64, and then the Gamecube, they bounced back considerably with the Wii, Switch, and Switch 2. Not to mention at the same time in the early 2000's, they had the Gameboy Color, Gameboy Advance, DS and 3DS all selling like hotcakes too.

Yeah, they kind of innovated their way out of the hole they'd dug for themselves with the Wii. All that motion stuff was cool and new, and seemed like they were trailblazing for the first time in a decade. And obviously the Switch is popular. But I'm not sure Nintendo ever fully recovered from the CD SNAFU.

Originally Posted by Prowler

What genre? Adventure games are dead? Eh, Zelda and its clones? Also adventure game is rather vague, so what do you mean exactly?

Adventure games as we knew them in the 80s and 90s. Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, King's Quest, Leisure Suit Larry, Secret of Monkey Island, etc..

USA? Not just there. FF II, III and V were Japan exclusives!

Mortal Kombat 9 and X were great games. 11 was pretty good too. Anyway, MK9 (2011) was then the Netherealm Studios took over the series, wasn't it?

I guess so, right after Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe.

Lightgun games? Virtua Cop 2 was the **** on the Saturn. I still have the blue gun somewhere.

Even going back to the SNES days. They had that cool Super Scope 6... but then they only put out like 1 game for it. But I think it would still be perfectly popular now. If you have some buddies over and don't want to re-learn how to do 30 hit combos on a fighting game, bust out the lightguns and start shooting sh**.

I was just thinking how cool it would be if Robocop: Rogue City had a lightgun mode. That would be amazing. And modern lightguns could have all sorts of cool haptic feedback and built-in speakers.