The game companies need to go back to having arcades be the power and conceptual examples to help properly feed into the console side. Reciprocity so to speak.

I wake up this morning and we are now up to four web sites running the Reuters story as if gospel and also adding their own incorrect observations to boot!

Why cant our trade stop this – or at least come out with a alternative view!

The Reuters feature is very worrying – such a obvious poor bit of journo-work and no one in our industry says zip! This work will now be used by every website as a reason to write a ‘arcade is dead’ feature!

Relying solely on operators or distributors to push their games is a silly idea, these companies have a hard enough time to get the message out just about their business with limited budgets, much less focusing on single games. Of course development companies have their own budgets too but it is not that difficult to offer a sneak peek at upcoming games. I’ve had to beg for info on some games at times and I get very little even then, not enough to make a worthy post about it. If some people won’t even work with an arcade friendly site like us then it shows you how they’ll treat other media sources (I should mention that there are a few who have worked really well with the site and that is something we greatly appreciate and would like to see more of – we don’t mean to scare them off with talk like this so I hope they understand our intention here and we’re not biting the hand that feeds us – we just want to see the industry grow and get beyond the perception that it’s dead). I do applaud recent efforts by companies to revamp their websites and offer a better look at each game and hold media events about their games but the more that can be done, the better.

The constant doom-mongering is very tedious indeed, and frankly ridiculous when you take into account the earnings the more successful games have been managing.