I was sitting at home watching tv with my kids, when I see a commercial about middle earth: shadows of mordor. The commercial claims it to be 2014 game of the year. Now some sites and publications I've seen say it was Dragon age: inquisition. Either or makes no never mind to me but what I'm seeing more and more is since skyrim more and more game of the year titles being given to fantasy rpg games. All so sales for these titles is exceeding that of there cousins shooter rpg. Also more and more game makers are developing fantasy rpgs (witcher 3, batman: arkam nights). With more and more info saying Bethesda is realising fallout 4 at e3 are they walking into a sales mistake.

Also on an interesting side note the same data I seen suggest that gaming console are blowing away computers in sales. Is it time for game developers to focus more on them instead of the computer gamers who are obviously dwindling in numbers.

Meh. From what I heard, those sales anolysis tend to only count the physical units sold on PC while ignoring the digital sales, making the whole comparison pretty worthless in my opinion. I have no doubt the consoles sales are still bigger, but I don't think it's as overwhelmingly big of a difference as what we see in those figures.

It's true those sale numbers completely ignore digital sales since they are virtually impossible to count.

Also consoles as a whole are bigger than PC but if individualy measured, PC is biggest platform.

Maybe you haven't looked at the gaming culture for the last 40 years, but fantasy games have always been popular.
The market is always full of all sorts of RPGs and fantasy games.

I love fantasy rpg's there ...there....fantastic!

I do not think it is rpg but open world. Gamers like the freedom to roam like in real life rather than to be put on rails.

It doesn't even have to be fantasy. Games such as GTA and Assassins Creed prove this.

Bethesda has a massive audience that has grown progressively over the past decade thanks to Oblivion, Fallout 3, New Vegas, and Skyrim. At this point, anything they release is all but guaranteed to be a smash hit. Ditto for Bioware; regardless if they were to release a new Dragon Age or Mass Effect, you can bet your left ass cheek it'll sell millions of units before the door is even open.

Fantasy games are hardly taking over the market; they've always held a considerable niceh. Nor is fantasy taking over the RPG genre; it's always been the prominent setting for both electronic and tabletop RPGs. Shooter RPGs, on the other hand, are a relatively more recent phenomenon, which is in part why they're not quite as common. But they can still sell remarkably well. The only reason we haven't seen them outselling the fantasy RPG is because, well...the most prominent RPG developers have been busy pushing out their fantasy RPGs, as we've seen with Skyrim, Dragon Age: Inquisition, and The Witcher III. It's not hard to outsell something that doesn't exist. But that's going to change soon; Bethesda will likely release the next Fallout, while CDPR will start working on Cyberpunk 2077. And when they do, some people will then start to say that fantasy RPGs are going out of style. I've seen it happen back when FO3 and ME were in production, and those claims were just as laughable then.

No. It's been a while since the focus is on consoles, and that hurts the technological side of progress. I think the focus should be on PC (the most perforrmant platform) and then, after they make the best looking build of the game, scale some settings down for the consoles. What the devs of Witcher 3 are doing with the downgrade is lame and it shows what happens when a pc-centric studio discovers the guilty pleasures of Microsoft money.

Very good point. I personally can't wait for a new open world fantasy game like elder scrolls for ps4. Hell I'd even take a remastered skyrim at this point. Guess I'll have to settle for es online though I'm not a fan of having to play with other online players. From my past experience with online games like world of warcraft there are a lot of hackers out there that make games like that less enjoyable to me.