What, exactly, killed arcades? Power of the home console? Online?

What, exactly, killed arcades? Power of the home console? Online?

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>meme aids

Moba's.

It evolved into facebook f2p match-3 games. Basically same business model.

Consoles hit their knees with a lead pipe
Online came and hit them in the back of the head while they were down

Arcades lack comfort, in depth games, requires traveling, and promotes unnecessary spending

>meme aids
What did they mean by this?

>deep fried twinkies
Fucking americans!

>35c
Fuck that shit. Where is this place?

i bet they're good

i thought deep fried oreos were going to be disgusting until I tried one

but damn, can't eat anymore than like one or two though, shits delicious but dat oil soakage.

Arcades aren't meant to be comfy, you go to a higher floor in a casino for that.

Arcades are meant to be lively and buzz with energy.

Free nightly concerts and door girls dressed like mexican dancers?

I bet Vegas.

>Taking your kid to Fremont

It's like they don't know he really IS a furry pedophile.

Consoles didn't immediately kill arcades in Japan, but in america it heavily dampened the culture to the point where they only show up as standalone machines in movie theatres or the odd arcade bar

Difference is, arcade games are more like "real" games compared to most mobile titles. There are some really good ones out there if you look hard enough, but most are gabage. But the fact that those f2p games are with you all the time changes things.

Arcades are definitely still alive and well. Thing is, they're mostly filled with the following:

Fighting games
Games that require a hardware gimmick like Gunslinger Stratos
Rhythm games
Cardass games like Dragon Ball Heroes
UFO catchers

If you're not into any of those, you'd have to look a lot harder.

The only place arcades are still a thing is shit like Dave and Busters

Tastes in how money gets spent. If instead of quarters, an arcade just charged people $20/mo memberships for unlimited play, they could work again. It's that "INSERT COIN" vibe, kinda like DLC except you need to pay to continue.

I meant to say "arcades in japan"

No point. The primary selling point of arcades was
>more powerful hardware
>more social than home consoles
Consoles kept getting better and better graphics, and multiplayer being more common meant that you no longer had to go to the arcades to play with friends.

To normal people, playing a video game is all about the video part. Theyre there to see the ending. If they have to spend $5 over 45 minutes, its a wash to them. The home console FEELS like a better deal, so Americans went with that

>have to pay more money if you die to keep playing

WOW. And people are complaining about DLC that actually adds content.

People will say online, consoles, etc., and they're not entirely wrong, but they're not right either.

The thing that killed arcades in america is population density.

Arcade machines are relatively expensive to purchase and maintain, and while they can make a lot of money if the venue is constantly full they can also drain money if you're having trouble bringing people in.

In places like Japan where cities are wall-to-wall people arcades could afford to expand and grow.

In America we're just too spread out for there to be a really great location for an arcade in most areas.

>theyre there to see the ending
Not really.
edition.cnn.com/2011/TECH/gaming.gadgets/08/17/finishing.videogames.snow/
I get what you're saying with the video part but I'd bet the average person wouldn't be content with seeing a movie only half-way through while they seem to be OK with playing their games only partially.

>The thing that killed arcades in america is population density.

This is absolutely true, and why I fucking love living in a city with a Round 1 nearby

Normies indirectly keep the weebshit games alive in the US

>in depth games
Explain.

What's to explain? Arcade machines need to have "pick up and play" controls and people need to feel like they got a "full" experience out of one or two rounds of quarter-eating.

Consoles can still be explaining their mechanics and setting up their story in the time it takes to COMPLETE an entire arcade game.

Japan has a more "outside the house" culture. Since Japanese homes are so small they go out more for entertainment and to hang out with friends. Also since everything is either walking distance, or a train ride away, it's easier to hit the town.

Nigga, there's a difference between paying 25 cents for games and paying a PC/console game fullprice with DLCs on top.

>Consoles can still be explaining their mechanics and setting up their story in the time it takes to COMPLETE an entire arcade game.
This is sad for console games, but true.

Wait, what? This is not a GTAV mod then? It's an actual picture?

Because it sure looked like shit graphics. Just look at the absent shadows. This must be a bug in the Matrix.

This is detrimental to the culture, though. If you pay a 20 buck membership for unlimited play you won't get the feeling that you must make your money count, and it will simply become a place were faggots and dudebros go to smoke and do anything but play the games, and they wont even let you play.

Arcades being dead have more to do with culture, how the large of society looks at playing games as childish, and that if youre going to pay for anything outside, it should better be either a beer, a bet, or something to have a girl fuck you.

I live in El Salvador, and there are only a couple of arcades around, owned by some shady stoners. They're almost always empty, however you can hear people making plans to hit the club on friday or get wasted in any other way. People need to feel special, they need to do "adult" things so others see them as "adults". Its pitiful, and the worst of it is that im the one ostracized for not buying into that shit. The Matrix is a horrible place.

People who genuinely enjoy video games enough to go to an arcade in 2017 are too awkward to go to an arcade in 2017.

Arcades don't have much to offer today's audiences who prefer to play games on their phones.

Prices of arcades have gone up. When I was a kid, it was one or two quarters per play. Now the average game is more than a dollar per play. There's an arcade near the beach that still had some old machines last time I checked, and those were still set to one quarter. I don't know how long that will last, though. They might be gone already. They were all in a little room in the back. It was an "old-school" section of the arcade, and I thought it was pretty cool, but I got the sense that no one ever played them.

I don't see how a place called Meme Aids could possibly exist in America. Is the sign fake?

A mix of things.

Arcade games are by nature brief. Yes, they're often very intricate (specially japanese games), but most westerners really don't have the patience to put that much time in mastering a single game.

Compounded with that fact most arcade games were also unashamedly unfair with the express purpose of milking quarters out of you.

And then console games evolved to provide bigger, fairer, more player-oriented experiences. Nintendo is the perfect example of this, they went from having hit arcade games like Donkey Kong, to releasing the NES, to pretty much abandoning arcades altogether and making distinctly home-oriented games such as Zelda or Metroid. This is why they succeeded in reviving the console market.

Eventually home consoles evolved to the point where the gap wasn't big enough for people to be wowed by fancier arcade hardware. I think the 32-bit era was the turning point, 3D rendering was the last big breakthrough in terms of advancements that had an actual influence on gameplay, so from that point on everything you could do on an arcade machine you could do at home.

Maybe were reading it wrong

>Sup Forums opens a casino

I live in SoCal and there's a cool place in Pasadena called Neon Arcade. It's a fairly small facility and the owner has a huge collection of arcade games. This means that about every month they remove some games and add in new ones. Place charges $10/hr and all the machines are set to free play. The place is never not busy

>No FZero NX on Arcade machines yet
>No FZero NX at all
Fuck Nintendo, we were all waiting for this shit and Metroid Dread.

In Japan they're still alive.

Main reason is that you can't be loud as fuck screaming when you get killed or you're doing a competitive gaming afternoon with friends or online in the houses of Japan. They need the arcades for that.

We don't.

there was the point where consoles delivered graphics that matched arcades, so the biggest advantage they had was gone (this began in the mid 90s and was certain by 2000)
there was the point where console games began to be longer than arcade games (this was the early 90s)
there was the increasing casualization of the market -- arcade games had to be hard to keep everyone but the best from spending 1-2 hours on the cab every time, while console games just needed to make the player feel like they got their money's worth, resulting in longer and easier games (this was a long, slow trend)

things that survive in arcades now provide something physical you can't replicate at home, like weird controls or prizes or whatever

I can't imagine how hard is to be a Sup Forumsirgin in El Salvador and other Central American countries. Stay strong, fellow user.

Consoles killed it, like everything else.

Man, ive been suicidal a couple of times. A little backstory.

My parents were poor but succeeded, the country was torn by war and crime was rising. They had the great idea of spoiling me and being overprotective, i became autistic and have had a handful of friends my whole life. I got to believe in true love like in the fantasy tales, but never developed the skills to even talk with someone. I can't fit in this shithole of loud cunts, drunks and whores, yet thanks to the internet, i strive.

Good thing my parents buy me shit and i have this fucked up machine built from dead uncompatible parts. A 3.5Ghz FX6300, a GTX1060 with no DVI-I, 2x4GB+2GBDDR3 RAM sticks and a fucking VGA monitor with a HDMI to VGA adapter that barely gets to show you the screen and sometimes gets the screen turned off when you look at a random picture it cant process on Sup Forums.

At least i pirate whatever i want with my shitty 5mbps connection which almost never is up.

Soft light nigga. Look it up. Or just watch the X-Files episode.

But man, i really wish arcades were popular here. For starters the owners should not be fucking junkies like i said, theres a fucking load of soccer themed Pachinko machines and a few machines barely fit in the room. They have a Soul Calibur cabinet missing the fucking guard buttons for both players. They would benefit a lot if they started to include Touhou on it. I showed my friends bakaSTG and they were enjoying it, so i dont see how it could not become a thing.

But all in all, its this culture of drunkards and dickwads that never let arcades boom in the first place. On the other hand , normies enjoy shonenshit like Bleach and Naruto.

>GTX1060
What's that worth in your country? I bet that could buy a politician in El Salvador.

Lightgun games still hold up relatively well, and arcades should be about that.

It's Mermaids casino/hotel in Las Vegas.

>The thing that killed arcades in america is population density
lets be more specific

niggers killed the arcades
>born in long beach
>moved to granada hills in 93
>go with friends to local arcades in north hollywood
>gang bangers occupy the front of the arcades
>people are too scared to go near the area
>arcades start getting tagged and broken
>have to drive out to Anaheim to enjoy the arcades without fear of getting robbed

blacks have been getting ethnically cleansed by mexicans and latinos in general and gangs in general have died down tremendously over the years so arcades are starting to come back but feral nigs were a problem for arcades in the 90s and anyone living in socal during that time can attest to that


and most arcades are expensive as well

the 1070 is 500.

I had bought a 9604GB for $300 and after many hardware failures linked to my fx6100 turning the thing into an oven, the guys in the store coincidentially found the fan didnt work well and replaced it with a 1060 3GB. Had to buy the FX6300 for $230 and runs with no issues until now.

So i think its just a bit above 300.

Well, no issues except Jewvidia not adding fucking analog output in their cards anymore, so i have to bear with having my screen turn off when browsing a random pic on Sup Forums.