>Xbox Dead >PS5 Dying >Switch Flopping It's over for consoles.>With six months in the market, it remains the fastest-selling video game hardware in U.S. history. However, part of what was driving that was its availability to be bought during its launch window. It's been extremely rare to have such a successful new device not suffer supply constraints going into its first holiday sales period. Unit sales of Switch 2 were lower than those of Switch 1 during each console's first November, but the price points are also quite different. The average price paid for a new Nintendo Switch in November 2017 was $309 (which, if adjusted for inflation, is approximately $405 in November 2025 dollars), compared to the $486 for Switch 2 in November 2025. Perhaps it is a case of demand having been pulled forward earlier in the year because people could find them. Or perhaps the mass market is not as quickly adopting Switch 2 as it did Switch. Or perhaps consumers are looking elsewhere for holiday gifting as the prices continue to rise in video game hardware. Tough to say at the moment.https://www.ign.com/articles/video-game-physical-software-and-hardware-sales-just-had-the-worst-november-in-the-us-since-1995
Time to get another hobby or play you're massive backlog I suppose
>>728705357I have my insane theory that video games as we know them were a millennial fad. This only adds to it. The future of your franchise is in Roblox
>>728705357home consoles were never good
everybody owns a PS5 now. its peaked
In 20 years when you have to scan your ID and pay for a subscription fee to play games you bought digitally people will regret giving up on physical vidya.
>>728705357B-but this was THE BIGGEST black friday spending wise???
>>728707272No, they won't. Do you miss the time when people had to communicate through the physical written letter instead of via digital communications?
>>728707598What kind of comparison even is that?The only people who won't regret going full digital are pirates.
>>728707461yeah because microsoft and sony raised the prices of their consoles 3 times and the BF 'discount' was the console going back to the original price from 5 years ago
>>728707685The one based on the idea that the progression of time, technology and society will always favor the proceeding generations who adapt to the new environments to their benefit as the older generations pass on into history.
>>728707821Maybe.But for now most things point towards new technology making our lives worse when it comes to non-essential matters like gaming.
what happeneded in 1995
>Switch 2 dropped by 10%>NINTENDO IS FUCKED>PS5 dropped by 40%>nothing
>>728708047Okay, Amish. Why don't you get off the internet and your phone as well. That tech ain't helping you.
yeah but have you considered that stocks are up
So have Americans realised they have been thoroughly psyop'ed by russia into voting their own worst enemies into power to turn them into Neo India? or do they still keep telling themselves americas going to be "great again" any day now?
>>728708237weird limbo period where everybody was waiting for the n64 and the ps1 just came out but didn't have much success
Switch 2 and PS5 have no games, xbawks is dead while zoomies & alpha play video games on phones. Consoles also offer nothing over PCs in 2025 due to no exclusives.
>>728708326They're both fucked. Microsoft is doubly fucked. Valve is gonna be fucked. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N755jvOUCNI
>>728708429Nintendo is down almost 20% in the past month.
>>728708350If you paid 100 gamers to go fully offline for an entire year I'm sure the majority of them would say it was a positive experience.Couch coop and LAN parties being dead is a crime.
>I stop selling physical shit>customers stop buying the product I no longer provideWOOOOOW...
just wait for russia to invent a new console and it will become the most popular console in america
>>728708563this time for sure
>>728705357It was basically only the PS5 on sale, the good Switch 2 deal only started in December. Usually, there were always sales on Xbox and Switch 1.
>worst economy of our lives>highest priced video games & consoles of our livesgee I wonder why sales are down
>>728708707>>worst economy of our livesSo far.
>>728708585Yea, old gamers who post on 4chan via their smartphones using the internet instead of talking to people IRL face-to-face. Do you hear how hypocritical you sound? You're just a whiny old geezer.
>>728708476>thoroughly psyop'ed by russia>enemies into power to turn them into Neo Indiawho is this bait written to appeal to? is this chatgpt?
>>728708868so true bestie I gotta buy a gun as soon as the tax returns hit
>>728705747That’s not really true. Gen Z likes retro gaming (though their definition also includes like the PS3). They play shit like Roblox and Fortnite because they are free, and a lot of them are really there for the social aspect more than the game.> https://manigi.io.vn/article/why-gen-z-is-embracing-retro-tech-a-look-at-the-nostalgia-trend/12286
>>728708707>highest priced video games & consoles of our livesI want to live in the alternate reality where you can currently buy a Switch Lite + Smash for $100 brand new and Sony offered a PS5 Black Friday bundle for $350 that comes with 3 games and a year of PS+
>>728705357sucks being poor. also, the u.s. and european financial systems are literally designed to continue creating more debt endlessly for all eternity until everything finally collapses. elon musk even admitted as much on toe rogain. what does this all mean? it means that weimar era is inevitable and we'll eventually get to the point where a loaf of bread costs a million dollars/eurobuxx and where half of us will be perma-unemployed. so why don't you guys knock your heads together and try and do something about this, before we all reach this point? wouldn't that be in your best interests, or something? also, democracy is a lie, people don't actually vote for things that are in their best interests, if they did, we wouldn't be in this situation right now, to begin with.
>>728709058>(though their definition also includes like the PS3)It came out almost 20 years ago. Get with the times unc
>>728708971>Gun>not craftable Bow and ArrowHaven't survival games taught you anything?
>>728708237That was the year Circana started collecting this data. So essentially, this is the worst year they've recorded.
>>728709203NOOOO YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND RETRO IS ONLY WHAT'S OLD TO M- I MEAN IT'S ALL BASED ON GAME DESIGN REEEEEE
Why do companies like Sony and MS refuse to make products worth buying?
>>728708873That's true.None of that mean people won't regret having spent hundreds if not thousands on digital libraries once things inevitably get even worse than they currently are.Hopefully people will just stop spending and be resilient so that consoles either die or go back to being good.PC should be fine for the most part.
>>728709468Retro is a specific period of time. It cannot apply to future time periods just because it became old. Games released in 1990 were retro in 2000. They're retro today too. Games released in 2007 can never be retro. They can be old, classic even, but never retro.
>durrrr people only buyin da swich cuz derz enuf 2 buyDamn, that's crazy. You'd think literally anyone else would've figured that out in the last thirty fucking years.
>>728709576https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwcJNsoY50E
>>728709058>>728709468>People who just left their parents house for the first time and have to pay for their own things are getting into older, cheaper stuff Tale as old as time
>>728709710>Retro is a specific period of time
>>728709657>None of that mean people won't regret having spent hundreds if not thousands on digital libraries once things inevitably get even worse than they currently are.>PC should be fine for the most part.How are you this stupid?
>>728707598SAAAAR YOU ARE LUDDITE!!! MY AI IS VALID AND INDIA IS A SUPA POWA!!
CEX had a ton of PS5s stacked when I went in there.
>>728709892I dunno man. Maybe I just don't understand.Either way, please always be a mindful client. Gaming companies should have to work hard for your patronage.Never become a mindless consumer.
>>728705357We're in the most obvious recession ever but "economists" keep pretending that everything is fine because NVIDIA, Google, Microsoft, AMD and OpenAI keep moving the same money between each other inflating the GPD
>>728708617The MobikCube
>>728710152Pretty fucking stupid if you're championing the platform that pioneered and is dominated by digital game licensing.
>>728708873kill yourself you retarded zoomer
>>728709468It is based on game design. But the PS360 era still had big budget AAA releases with either 4:3 default aspect ratio, fixed camera angles and/or tank controls, which would be totally unthinkable today. The Wii, which was a contemporary console managed to be massively successful despite a max resolution of 480p.
>>728705357>They made physical media worse (digital only consoles, expensive accesories, low quality controllers...)> Sales got worseStop the fucking presses.
>>728709760Isn't this almost solely due to them squeezing the goy cattles with their constant subscription fees increases? MS had an absolute disaster of a generation but Xbox revenue is probably also the highest it's ever been.
>>728712890Oh, yea. Everyone's going after the whales these days. Why appeal to poorfags when rich people will cover the cost of thousands of players?
Are (((anal ysts))) still saying GTA 6 will turn this around?
Hard, cold days ahead...If only I had a femanon to warm my bed...
>>728705357>Nintendo Switch in November 2017 was $309 (which, if adjusted for inflation, is approximately $405 in November 2025 dollars),End the Fed
I can't even afford a Switch 2.Why didn't I just listen? What the fuck was I thinking...
>>728705357Nintendo's winning hard right now. Xbox players aren't buying Playstations, the AI prices will kill PS6
>Nintendo's winning hard right now. Xbox players aren't buying Playstations, the AI prices will kill PS6
>>728708707Wouldn't people worrying about the price of video games and not more important things like food be a good sign of the economy?
>Xbox sales effectively 0 (even lower than OG Xbox post 360 release)>PS5 sales still severely downBased Xbros just quitting this industry to find better hobbies
put $1.00 and Jan 2021 in this https://www.bls.gov/data/inflation_calculator.htm24% inflation since Jan 2021
>>728714291Don't look up the USD / EURO exchange rate.
>>728705357Everyone has been moving to PC and there are no physical releases for PC
due note, this absolute state of the economy is BEFORE the ai bubble popscan you imagine what it will look like after?
>>728714526>Everyone has been moving to PC
>>728714672Probably the same because media before was still shit.AI didn't create Concord, that was made by humans. Sadly.
The economy is in the toilet and games raised prices this year.No shit people were reluctant.
This reminds me of the Japanese video game market and how Playstation's death was the death of the market there.
>>7287146722 more weeks nigga
>>728713264>why appeal to poorfags whenBecause there's only so many richfags and there's getting fewer and fewer of them. Most "richfags" are actually just middle class and choose to spend their disposable income on this shit. And you know what's happening with the middle class.
>>728715420>Playstation's death was the death of the market there.switch 1 and 2 are selling like hotcakes in japan
>>728705643To be honest, in these economic times, playing my backlog is the strategy. I don't know if I'll get another game until GTA6. And 2026 doesn't look like a shit year. It's just rent comes first.
>>728714214The fact that people have to start chipping away at luxuries like video games just to afford food is a bad sign, actually. In a good economy, people wouldn't worry so much about the price and how it might conflict with their basic needs.
>>728715624If I were a business, I'd take one rich fag over 1 100 poorfags.
>>728715649That's the point. Think about it, Microsoft is pretty much exiting the console business and Sony's lagging hard plus a shit economy. No shit the video game market is contracting.
>>728715759>2021The 1% has like 70% of the wealth now
>>728714526The RAM bubble is gonna hit that market hard, especially if developers don't (re)learn to optimize for underpowered, affordable hardware (they won't, outsourcing to jeets and the overall competency crisis caused by DEI policies is too normalized now).
>>728705357Where’s the faggot who kept claiming PS5 is going to pass PS4 for sure this time because people jumped to buy one in September before the price hike?
>>728715759Again retard it's not the 1% you're getting but the 11% that are whales and they're going down too. Most of that 1% is also really old and don't play videogames.
>>728715759This chart is kinda inaccurate though because 80%+ of console sales happen in US + Canada + Europe + Japan + South Korea + Australia + New Zealand which is only about 15% of the world
>>728715420>>728715887The only “death of the Japanese market” was 3rd parties falling for Sony’s lie and supporting PS4 over 3DS. Once the gave Sony a middle finger the market recovered
>>728716082>Most of that 1% is also really old and don't play videogames.Don't be so sure.
>>728716018Most PCs bought in the past 5 years are good enough to play modern games and a lot of people bought new PCs around covid. Most people can just wait out the ram pricing and I bet the good devs will actually care about optimizing a lot more in the coming years. No point making a game people can't actually run
>>728708563>demand in free fall>still trying to raise the price as if supply is in shortage
>>728716160Yea
>>728708476бeз apeнднoй плaты
>>7287053571995 but not 1996, since that's when resident evil came out and EVERYBODY was buying a PlayStation then. 1995 was just a console generation gap year.
>>728710351As long as Steam stays private PC players are alrightWe also have alternatives like GOG and Itch.io
It's over
>>728714526retard
>>728705357Why upgrade? We're at a point where all we're doing is playing the same thing we did last gen, but with better graphics. Like I said before, that's boring. It's also why I'm not buying a console this generation and I'm just sticking with what I already have + PC . Until someone makes a console that's actually doing something unique and innovative again I'm fine.
>>728719762We're witnessing the last real console generationIt really is over
>and so, vidya retvrned to the indie hobbiest and I played modded Minecraft and emulated monster hunter happily ever after
>>728705357>hear about the Nintendo black friday deals>go to Walmart to buy them>get told they're online only>get told they wont price match their own website>go home empty handedCan't blame me.
Oh no, muh heccin' capitalism. Where are the fucking VIDEO GAMES?
>>728705357Same with PCs too. Nobody is paying $600 for Ram.
>>728708476Shut the fuck up you utter troglodyte
>arbitrarily raise prices>people don't buy your shitOh wow who could have seen this coming
Ok
>>728723921It should be interesting to see what happens when all these companies, who exist to sell products, suddenly have nobody buying their products because the consumers cannot afford their prices and have no money. The weird ass money cheat going on in Tech is just going to explode in their faces at some point.
>>728715104Biden ruined the economy on purpose in 2020 with fake COVID and sold us down the river to Jews
>>728724031This is the first generation where priced went up instead of down after five fucking years of being on the market
>>728705643>All those molesWhat an ugly creature.
PC Cucks continue their crusade to destroy gaming
>>728708873>imageboard-type site that reuses formats of interaction that have existed since the 90s that facilitate a raw form of discussion>hyperconnected social medial sites that have perfect integration with most file types and phones which have algorithms that keep you engaged on those platforms>and live chat services that are usually moderated decentralized, making it so that different places have different rules and you can kick wrongthink out easily>"these things are exactly the same"Fuuuuuuuuuuuuck that and fuck you for even implying that
>>728709760most of that revenue is from PS+ subscriptions
>>728708476I hope this is true, burgerland is a morally corrupt shithole with only degenerate subhumans living in it so it makes sense that it has to match the other subhuman infested shithole that is India.
>>728722226not american but I didn't know america had online only deals for physical items
>>728708476So, have third worlders shot themselves in the head yet over the fact that got banned from ever coming to America again? Maybe your bot ass should worry about your own failing country instead of dreaming about becoming American every day. Why the hell did we nuke Japan and not the rest of you shitters? We should have made the third world extinct. You're annoying and don't even understand that there is no two parties here in the US, just one uniparty, dumbass
>>728708707>worst economy of our livesThat was 2022
>"Physical Software"
>>728705357>physicalI sleep
>>728724865>and hardwareReading is hard
>>728724964Irrelevant.
>>728725062>console sales are also down massively>irrelevant You are a colossal retard
>>728725179Yes that's completely irrelevant to the assertion that there's such a thing as physical software you troglodyte fuck
>>728725384Yep, you're retarded.
>>728716435black myth wukong can run on 16gb of ram with a web browser open. the ram shit is VERY overblown unless you're a schizo with 1000 tabs.
>>728725481but what if he isn't? what if it's some kind of trick? maybe he's just pretending to be.... retarded?
GTA 6 will cause a big spike next year it's only launching on PS5 and Xbox
>>728725568Yes anon, what was said definitely didn't make him left stupid and it has to be bait because he didn't understand the premise of the post he was initially replying to.Hooway!
>>728705357So, gaming crash coming next year already?Fucking finally, took them long enough
>>728725703>uncompelling aaa softwareI despise this zoomer trendJust say ass, why go out of your way to self censor and say aah?
>>728725682It's going to get delayed again because of the UK government and then it releases in 2027, it's going to be a Concord-level failure to the point it collapses the AAA industry in one go. Valve will release Half-Life 3 before and completely change the American video game industry, again.
>>728705357>Or perhaps the mass market is not as quickly adopting Switch 2 as it did Switch. Or perhaps consumers are looking elsewhere for holiday gifting as the prices continue to rise in video game hardware. Tough to say at the moment.That's because the jump from Wii (U) to Switch was much greater than Switch to Switch 2. What does the Switch 2 even offer to somebody with the old console?
I mean, can you blame gamers?In the past, holiday period usually always had bangers releasing. Nvm even holiday period, this year has been dogshit in general with only a few good AA games.
>>728708237Sega Saturn. The reality is we kept playing Genesis until it 97 at least.
>>728705357>Xbox DeadLike their mascot Halo, it's fucking tragic that caseJust look at this general >>>/vg/550345348It’s kept alive by just 5 guys
Good. Should've happened 20 years ago when the 7th gen premiered and was just shitty locked down PC's. Hopefully the industry is collapsing and normalfags will leave with it.
>we just can't figure out why people aren't buying games anymore
