Seventh Console Generation: Top 5 Lessons
The Twilight of the Seventh Console Generation: Top 5 Lessons Learned The 7th console generation of 2005-2013 is slowly coming to a close with the release of the Wii U and the imminent Fall launch of the PS3. For gamers, developers, and publishers now would be a great time to do some introspective thinking and learn from the past mistakes while keeping the great innovations. Here are the top 5 things we’ve learned from the 7th Generation of the Wii, Xbox360, and PS3: Number 5 Recognize Fads and Don’t create new ones Everyone knows fads sell and that they work. Looking at the views of viral videos alone shows that a fad can be an extremely powerful device. The problem with fads are they aren’t sustainable. All the great fad products of the 80’s, 90’s, and 00’s are gone because the hype is over. People are done with it. It’s like the Chia Pet or the Sham wow; once you see it and it looses the wow factor, why invest more