According to this article quoting the PriceWaterhouseCoopers report we will start spending more on video games than music.
Now I know that this is not exactly the freshest headline on the planet, but I just had to write about it here to draw attention to it.
Yes it’s true, we will spend more on games. This is monumental, and I think indicative of several things that are happening in the world. First of all, we like our entertainment to be interactive. Listening “passively” to things will have it’s place for a long time in my life at least, but I want more than that. Chilling out listening to music generally won’t distract me from that looming deadline, or project, and buy me a few minutes of blissfully unaware casual gaming mania. Neither will it envelope me in a whole new world for me to explore for hours on end.
Music dead? no way, just as I said in yesterday’s post about loving the music in games I’ve played, I love listening to music, especially music from games while I work. I think that music from games will become increasingly important, and we will certainly start seeing some more crossover into mainstream music from game music. I will probably also post sometime soon an interview I had with a lead sound designer for a major upcoming MMO, that will talk about how music and sound is evolving rapidly in games.
Thanks to Tyler Pace who sent me a link to the original post a while back.