E3 09: Too Many Shooters?

Have Gun, Will make game about it?

There are probably two things immediately wrong with this article (yup, that's how I real 'em in).  First, the cry "there are too many shooters in the video game market" is not a novel one, nor by any stretch of the imagination, a new one.  Secondly, I love shooters.  So why dig up and beat a horse which has long since been given an earthy home six feet under "it sells" and "who cares?"  I don't quite know what it is, but despite this year being undeniably a great E3, it all at once seem to dawn on me that this oh-so-insistent sense of enthuse-less-ness might not be directed to quality of the the titles shown this year, but maybe this simple fact: there were too many shooters.  

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