Sony's Concord might be the biggest entertainment failure of all time, so why wasn't it news?

Not to continue beating a dead horse, this article is really about mainstream media’s relationship with video games, or the lack thereof. For the first time in my life, I pay for a subscription to news, because the same problems that crop up from getting news from reddit happen just as easily here in the fediverse. There are actually really great pieces written about video games and their creators in the New York Times, but they’ve only got a couple of bylines between them, and a frequency that matches how many people they’ve got working on it. Meanwhile, they do have a section under Arts dedicated to Dance, which I somehow doubt has anywhere near as many readers interested in the subject.

  • RonnieB@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    A game no one heard of until it shut down isn’t that interesting of a story. It’s not that deep.

    • ampersandrew@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      2 months ago

      I think it’s a story when it’s perhaps the largest flop in the medium, much like John Carter. It’s somehow worth writing five articles about the Joker sequel flopping.

      • RonnieB@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 months ago

        I’m not saying it’s not a story, just not one most people care about. Avid gamers had barely heard of the game before it flopped, average non-gamer wouldn’t care.

        Joker sequel flopping is a bigger story because the first one was well recieved, also celebrities are involved.

        If the next call of duty sells 14 copies and shuts down in two weeks it would be a big story.

        • ampersandrew@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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          2 months ago

          Do you think more people care about the average video game story or the average story about the theater? Live performances, not movies. Theater, Dance, and Visual Arts all get their own sections in the NYTimes, for instance, but video games are demonstrably bigger and don’t get the same attention. There’s rarely even a mention of the likes of Call of Duty in mainstream media when they do exceptionally well, let alone exceptionally poorly, and that’s really the crux of the article.