I don’t think he’s discounting the traditional games market, nor even traditional (old school) controllers. I think he just realizes that gamers have advanced beyond the overly complex controls as a means to “advance” games and have come back to what initially made gaming go mainstream in the 80s: Simply Fun games. Sure, there will always be complex games that require dozens of button combinations, but the days where gaming is dominated by a few hardcore teens who want dozens of shooters/gta clones every year are wearing thin.

I’m fine with that. The space marine/drug lord fantasies of 14 year old boys were getting a bit tiresome to be honest. I’m long since no longer a teen and my imagination doesn’t dwell solely on blowing things/people up anymore.

I find a game like Lost Winds far more imaginative and rewarding than a dozen FPS’s that are nearly impossible to tell apart even for someone who used to play a lot of shooters.

The nice part is, Sony and MS don’t seem to be going anywhere soon, and they’re clearing targeting the teenage-male-hardcore-I-have-hours-a-day-to-play-games market, so everyone can be happy.