A term that unifies “casualization” (from
casual), with “consoles”. While in videogames “casualization” means a tendency to make things less complex and accessible to the masses, “consolization” means the “casualization” applied to games that weren’t
casual before. It applies to all kind of games who become less complex because of the necessity of convert
mouse to
pad controls, lower on memory or graphics requeriments, or downgrade any kind of management (losses the x,y axis, big menus, scrolling inventories, auto aim, auto stats, lack of editor or mod support, etc).
Many
games have
lost plenty of quality due to their consolization, their predecessors were
richer and deeper in each aspect but these multiplatform versions were designed limited by inferior platforms...