Re:New games that'll become classics (Score 1)

But... they'll all be gone from the arcade in a couple of months, replaced by bigger, louder, fx-ier games that are supposedly better. Very few current games will ever be driven to the ranks of "classic" simply because they won't be playable (meaning that the average person won't have access to them) for a very long time at all. Today Beatmania might be cool, next week it'll probably be passe, and after that it'll be Beat-what-was-it-again?

But what is the real reason behind this? There are simply way more games coming out today then there were in years past. With a glut in the market, arcades are apt to change their content on a virtually continuous basis. Because newer games won't be around long enough to enjoy meme-like status (or, at least wide-spread meme-like status) they will eventually just fade from our collective conscience.

The same argument may be made to concole/PC games, with very few changes.

I am not saying that no current games will ever become classic, but that the entire meaning of classic has a hint of long-lasting, and so speaking up and saying that [game that was released five weeks ago] will become classic has little/no substance. If it's still around in 6-12 months, maybe something could be said then.