Have you been wondering what the future of computer games is going to be like? Well, a lot of people are realizing that computer games might come back since more and more computers and computer games are being bought each day.
Club penguin is just one of the many examples of how computer games are dying out. For example, Club penguin has announced that it will be shutting down and this has come with a lot of distress, however, it is for the better. As stated by Perez in her article about club penguin “The company sold to Disney in 2007, in a deal that then valued the business at $700 million. At the time, it had over 12 million users. By 2013, that number had grown to 200 million, though there’s some indication that visitors have been on the decline. According to one traffic measurement source, SimilarWeb, the site saw 5.6 million visitors as of December, 2016 – and that figure was down from 7.4 million in July.” Online computer games dying out may be unpreventable as many websites as a whole are shutting down which is contributing to the drop of online computer game users.
This is a fair example of how computer games are dying out. However, Nick Statt thinks that computer games are coming back mainly thanks to Steam which is an online game library. Now, consoles haven’t always been the center of gaming, for example, in the late 80s and early 90s computer games were still the best way to game with the online abilities. But now, consoles have those as well and they have and they have proven to be cheaper and more consistent. But Steam is helping because it has the same games as consoles and it stores them online so you don’t have to worry about discs and it is free to use (Statt).
So, computer games as a whole might be coming back but there may be no hope for online computer games such as Club Penguin as they have been on a decline for a while. However, these types of games were screwed from the start, as there are not many ways that you can improve games like Club Penguin so they were bound to lose the interest of gamers because of they were restricted to what they could add. However, you could also do what Club Penguin is doing and and make a new website/app to recapture interest. The reason that consoles got so popular and will most likely continue to stay popular is because you can improve them and change them and their games to the likings of the users with a cheaper and more consistent experience. That is why people like steam since it has the same games as consoles and and it stores them and organizes them online.
Well, it looks like computers are becoming the better way to game. However, we do not yet know if they will overtake consoles.