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Video games used to be everywhere. In magazines unrelated to gaming, on TV, ads on the subway, movie tie-in games, movies released for PSP on UMD. They were a pillar of pop culture in 2006.

A random 7/10 weekend rental for your PS2 would have Christopher Walken and Gary Oldman in the cast. It wasn't an uncommon belief back then that video games would replace Hollywood.

20 years later and Sony no longer makes discs. GTA 6 will be all digital. You go into a Walmart or Best Buy today and they don't advertise that they sell video games. The electronics section is all laptops, phones and accessories, and a corner section with a pathetic selection of games.

Did us millenals just vastly overrate the potential of video games? Was it always destined to become the Fortnite box for kids that is irrelevant to the adult world?
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>>539114552
playing games is for incels
touch grass
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>>539114552
>20 years later and Sony no longer makes discs. GTA 6 will be all digital. You go into a Walmart or Best Buy today and they don't advertise that they sell video games. The electronics section is all laptops, phones and accessories, and a corner section with a pathetic selection of games.
How the fuck is this degradation? The delivery format has just evolved you 1 post by this id retard
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>>539114552
I only play competitive multiplayer games so I can terrorize shitskins and faggots.
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>>539114552
Video games a more prolific then ever but nobody needs to leave their house to get into them now.
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>>539114552
wtf did I just read OP are you retarded
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>>539114552
>video games used to be everywhere
because it was the only way to buy them
now you can just download your game

>>539115211
yes
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>>539114552
>video games used to be everywhere now they will be more everywhere by being exclusively digital, and gta 6 will outsell the most profitable film 10x over
>bros why are games dying

fool, i WISH they were dying, then we'd go back to teams of 8 white guys and like 2 asian guys making the coolest shit you've ever seen that runs on a toaster
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>>539114552
Remember when they used to have consoles attached to TVs with demos running so you could stop and play the first level of a game before deciding to buy it?

>>539114927
No physical ownership, no purchase from me
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>>539114552
It's not like video games are the only thing that has moved from physical to digital. Chances are it will be the last hold outs. Less and less movies will be coming out on Blu-ray if they can't even sell 500 units
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>>539114552
would
didn't read your post because it's irrelevant.
holes' only value is sex. Nothing they say or do beyond that is interesting or important.
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>>539116027
based and for me it was always Candace Bailey on attack of the show. Good little former gymnast spinner. Here she is with Sara Underwood who is now an onlyfans whore with some nice explicit content.
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>>539114552
What's popular is not what's good. Pop is naturally the realm of goysop, because it takes a tremendous amount of money to reach a national or global audience. So for every good thing that achieves popular success there are a hundred slop things competing with it. There are good games, maybe six or seven total if I'm being generous, but that's it so don't lament Sony fucking up the PS6 or whatever.
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Gaming right now is bigger than ever, but also more online now than ever. The internet reduced the need for stores to have big stocks of games and advertising is now targeted instead of videogames in some random magazine. Even people who primarily play single player games get their single player game information and buy things online.

There are celebrities in games currently. Some ones I can immediately think of are Matthew McConaughey in Exodus, Ellie Fanning in a Kojima game, the guy from The Walking Dead in another Kojima game, the new GOW will have Deborah Ann Woll. But Fortnite does have a lot of celebrities.
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>>539114552
Niggerball and gacha video games are more profitable than any other entertainment industry. Video games are still here, they have just been enshitified.
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>>539114552
The industry sucks balls now bro. Video games used to be good actually until bankers started taking control over companies and buying everyone out just to then make bullshit for idiots. Something happened during 2012 and developers dropped the ball right when video games were becoming high art and the pinnacle of culture
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>>539115574
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fool, i WISH they were dying, then we'd go back to teams of 8 white guys and like 2 asian guys making the coolest shit you've ever seen that runs on a toaster


This guy fucking gets it. I was excited Nintendo's stock was plummeting because it means they might actually make good games again
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>>539114552
No jews and jeets ruined vidya
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>>539114552
movies are far worse than video games nowadays and video games for the most part are horrid already
idk what you on about
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>>539114552
the interactive nature of videogames makes them unappealing for normies, mashing buttons is like a 2nd job for them. There's nothing wrong if normies will stay in their social and movie slop rather than attracting them which kills franchises like souls or zelda.
>>539114979
I prefer comfy japanese rpgs or action games to escape from a world full of niggers, jews, leftist activists and other browns.
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>>539114552
Actual answer: GamerGate

The goal of the "Gamers are dead" line that all of the mainstream media towed was to kill gaming and "gamers" as a group. Once this was done, video games could be marketed to children as educational, but it was really about corporate control.
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>>539114552
remember when there always was a game for a movie. good times. lord of the rings games.



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