The fate of shoot em up genre

[Artwark]

So Shoot em up games are a bit of a problem in terms of sales. There's not that many people out there that want these types of games anymore and I'm a bit upset about that because well....you have Star Fox and then you have classics like Life Force, Galaga etc.

So what can devs do or what can be done to make them global than them being near dead right now?

 

[Segata]

They are still very much around. Getting new ones on Dreamcast all the time. A bunch on Steam that are recent. Cave is still around. Some indie stuff on consoles. In fact the latest game from Cave was this year on PS4. They still very much exist in Japan. The west not as high profile but they are still kicking.