I must not have made this point clear in the previous post, so I'll give it another go.

Several people keep mentioning the "majority of gamers" and "current market trends" behind their reasoning.

Of the people you know in school/work/whatever, how many would you say are "gamers"? I would estimate a lot less, but we'll be generous and say 5%.

Given: 5% of the population play games regularly.

Given: 95% of the games on the market are first person shooters.

We can draw one of two conclusions from this information.

Idiot's Conclusion (i.e. Popular Belief): Only 5% of the people in the world enjoy playing any type of game. Only 5% of those people enjoy playing anything other than first person shooters.

Apparently Not So Obvious Truth: Only 5% of the world enjoys playing games because only first person shooters are available to them. If more games are made available, more people will play games.

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Just think about it for a bit. And don't argue numbers. I'm not interested in debating. All I'm saying is that there is a much greater potential for the games industry if publishers would take a minute to think.

-Nag