What's the absolute worst case scenario for video games in 2030?
Nintendo becomes the last console manufacturer and all third party publishers move to Steam.
>>729178492Whatever actually happens irl is probably the worst case scenario.
>>729178492Consoles can ban you for saying a bad word. All games are ai generated and require a $150 monthly sub to play lol.
>>729178492AI will bring a second video games crash by then
We get more of the same shit that we are getting now. I was considering that the worst case scenario might be that we just start moving backwards due to shortages of components, making it so that we all have to play older games/consoles that start getting manufactured again, but that actually sounds surprisingly better than what is happening now.>>729178784Nintendo becoming the de facto console manufacturer means they no longer need to be novel or innovative in any way, which leads to the worst of the worst of their consoles.
>>729178492>Gabe dies, Steam goes public and devolves into utter dogshit.>VisaMastercard please save me, but US government edition.>Sony quintuples down on Sonyslop.>Nintendo continues its degeneration into Sony.>Somehow Microsoft returned.>AI bubble only further expands as the recession becomes a depression, displacing about 90% of game jobs, nothing of any remote quality gets made. Said developers flood the market with AI sloppa, leading to a total and complete industry collapse.
Personal computer are made illegal
>>729178492Gaming in general becoming mobile only.And it's already in progress, thanks to the whole game industry shunning kids (other than nintendo), half of the kids no longer know how to use keyboards or mice or joysticks.And it will only get worse from here.
>>729178492Timmy Tencent and Tencent convince US Congress that Steam is a neo nazi antisemitism hotspot, and they ban it, and they make EGS the only legal game store in the country, and thus world.
>>729178492Due to a lack of monetary interest majority of driver support dies.Enjoy steam or other apps only supporting one version of a very shitty version of windows.
>>729178995>Nintendo becoming the de facto console manufacturer means they no longer need to be novel or innovative in any way,So, something that's already happening. Got it.
>>729178784>>729178928>>729178995>>729179087All of this is already happening you guys... you were supposed to use critical thinking and pattern recognition to extrapolate events five years ahead like OP asked. He even used a funny cat picture. This is like one rung above the breakfast test. What are you doing?
>>729178492They'll just make it illegal to own a computer to force the last few holdouts that can still afford them into gaming on the cloud. Steam machine will also be the last console with actual hardware in it to ever release, which is what lit a fire under Gabe's ass to push it out. All of this is planned. If you loved clownworld and demonworld, wait'll you see whats next. You're gonna cum in your little sissy panties.
>>729180009This but unironicallymay god have mercy
>>729178492>hardware becomes so much more expensive even consoles give up>eventually all computer hardware is no longer sold to costumers but in bulk to huge tech giants>cloud gaming slowly becomes cloud everything because its not just gamers but schools, offices and anyone that isn't 1% to a point that a subscription of a shitty dell computer from 2018 will cost you 100$+ a month due to huge demand>devs have no choice but move to mobile market or else they starve, literally>the mobile market becomes saturated with devs looking for a job>chink gacha shit gives every dev an indentured servitude level of contract that will put in jail for years if you break it>gacha becomes extremely predatory as it has no more competition anymore >all new games are mobile only as most people are too poor to play anything else. Destroying any demand for non mobile gaming>since PC hardware is no longer sold to individual costumers it becomes more and more desirable, especially considering that every year there is less and less of it that is available to normal people due to wear and tear. >a black market forms around diminishing personal computers, thieves are more likely to steal anything bigger than phone than gold, cash and jewellery>due to black market and diminishing demand for non private PC OS all of operating systems eventually get bombarded with viruses on every corner as means to take your hardware hostage, be it a ransomware or IP tracker that will reveal your location so a goon from an organized crime can break in and steal it. TOR becomes the only usable browser cause of this and internet is split in two, mobile and dark.>since everybody is streamlined into same corporate system on phones that you carry everywhere the idea of privacy is erased>the big brother sees and hears everything, everywhere>you will own nothing and be happy or else...
>>729178492Cloud gaming only. As a result of hardware becoming too expensive for consumers due to AI-caused shortages, and in order to combat anti-government hate speech, computing and gaming will be reserved for simple mobile-like devices that can't do anything on their own other than to connect to the cloud. After Gabe Newell's death the company will go public and Steam will become a subscription service.
>>729178492I gain complete and total control of the industry, reigning over it with an iron fist and killing anyone who brings me the concept of a game that I don't want to play.For everyone that isn't me, of course.
>>729180009>normalfags don't even care>they just accept their lives getting steadily worse while being pushed further and further into debt slavery while being replaced
>>729178492>consoles cost over 1000, PC's over 5k, Steam goes public and get 10 times worse, more slop from Nintendo/Sony and Microsoft, you will own nothing and you will be Happy aka the return of Stadia duo to extreme high prices for consoles and pc's, AI slop in everything but the games will keep getting worse and prices will rising, more remakes-remakesOverall a never ending Nightmare
>>729180226I said this over ten years ago when cloud servers started becoming a thing and was called a retard schizo that should be locked up and no one remembered it to apologize. Nothing about cloud computing makes any sense, its better to have decentralized networks of smaller units like home computers in every conceivably way. The only reasons to want to do it like this are all uniformly completely evil without exception.
>>729178492>120 bucks for a game>AMD is the new nvidia and intel is the new AMD>multiplayer games now have ai-admins roaming the servers, which also use up one of the available slots>singleplayer games become unmodable due to the increased security mechanism in place to secure the implemented ai from being copyright infringed>gabeN dies>Microsoft (xbox, Activision and co.) is bought either by MBS or China>Elon's ai-game factory went life>even more ram and electricity is used up>Personal Computers are now only available as pre-builds>CIA introduced microLSD
>>729180523normalfags are too afraid to stand out and be called racist or whateversuch heavy indoctrination everywhere in every stage of their lives "just be a good goy and turn the other cheek!"makes me sick to my core
you grow up and actually get a wife and start a family
>>729179961The phone scenario is a complete game over for gaming, there's nothing more to be predicted.
>>729181476Brownoid moment
Lonely toxotranny thread >>729184001Toxotranny melty
>>729178492Why do you do this? What's the point of tormenting yourself by imagining nightmare scenarios? Go play a fucking video game.
>>729178492>google stadia enforced upon the gamerkind>endless AI generated slops for 160$/month>you will asume you will have a pc but eventually corporate funded pc brickers will be launched without saving grace>internet unusable apart from set corporate approved LANs>and at last you shall own nothing>they will assure you that you are indeed happy about it though
>>729178492full of ai from sound to art to coding causing performance to take a huge dump while increasing file sizes even morecoupled with ai shit making pc parts more expensive overall performances will tank drastically
>>729184195I don't wanna play games, you fucking retard. I wanna be UPSET!
Bruh five years ago everyone in this thread thought we'd be eating mosquito burgers in the metaverse by 2030 don't take any of them seriously
>>729178492>ai slop now the norm>every game is just using jeets for non AI code>indie games stop being created or stagnate at pixelshit 2D slop>10 million dollar paper mario clone considered low entry point "indie"
>>729178492Ugly women continue to exisf
>>729178492>Paying +$1000 for an always online box that you won't own with no owning options for your games, and games will be failed graphicwhory crap that don't even look good let alone play good>On the other corner PC will be $500 at least each part and their OS a subscription service to use their own porn media player>All software will be twice expensive despite being cheaply made in cost and quality alikeBasically the endgame you tied yourself as a consumer for enabling graphicwhoring in the 7th generation. Enjoy!
>>729178784I see third party hacks doing this tbqh.
>>729179058>Gabe dies, Steam goes public and devolves into utter dogshit.>Sony quintuples down on Sonyslop.>Somehow Microsoft returned.All these ae happening.
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>>729179058This cursed post has the whiff of truth. I triple-checked my trousers; it is not me.
Living costs and hardware costs are so bad that big corpo gaming completely dies, and the only way normalfags can access games are through cloud gaming (Netflix is the biggest gaming company now). Indie devs still mass release shit on Steam, the last bastion for gaming.
>>729178492China has an internal political crisis, and decides to try to unify the country with a naval blockade against Taiwan, ramping up for a full invastion, with subs threatening Japanese ports, with proxy attacks in the middle east, the mediteranian, and the internet, as well as saberrattling a nuclear response with india..This results in all computing and gaming hardware being disrupted. Virtually all computer parts pipelines will be toast. Some minor manufacturing in goddam idaho, is pretty much the only thing not threatened by short range missiles.
>>729187102Why can't we get games with cool scenarios like that?
>>729187180Because China already has enough influence to derail anything at the high AA budget or higher.Pic related was made years ago, and had a hypothetical conflict between Ghost Recon and the goddam european branch of Team Rainbow, with the russian operators breaking returning to Spetznav. They left out china ENTIRELY. See also homefront, where they just slap in the DPRK.Last serious games with anything china was what, C+C generals over 20 years ago, and the alt future Wargames Red dragon, which was low budget.
>>729187180Because Tom Clancy is DEAD. Ubisoft sucks ASS, and is now 25 percent owned by literally China.
>>729187102Haven't you been paying attention retard? Ain't gon be no WW3 lil niggo, that's the point of the planned economy experiment. The only real war is on you and people like you, for being such dangerously stupid retards they gave up on space and want to turn the entire planet into a free range tardranch where you own nothing. And you know what? You deserve it.
>>729188960>Ubisoft sucks ASS, and is now 25 percent owned by literally ChinaBut this is a good thing. Even if itcould be better
>>729188970Who's saying it goes hot? This is more like cold war 2. Are YOU going to try to claim china will never play hardball? The same china that will cancel your ass if you don't include the seven dash map that accepts the artificial islands with mililtary bases they put up in the goodam ocean? Are you going to try to claim that the China that had 3 major political upheavals in the past hundred or so years, and has had huge upheavals all throughout it's history that killed loads of chinese? We still play games about them today?Get the fuck out. You're chasing lu bu with that shit. Now the interesting thing is that we are starting to see CCP media be willing to produce video games that aren't just a repeat of the 3 kingdoms.
>>729178492All games only made for the modern audience
>>729189587>Are YOU going to try to claim china will never play hardball?Yes. You're living in a fantasy world where china isn't invaluable and this is by design. Like I said, you are living in a world of planned economies carefully made to create interdependence between nations. This is why america has no meaningful industry but tech, this is why russia has no meaningful industry but fuel, this is why china has no meaningful industry but manufacturing, this is why europe serves no purpose but being consumer serf states with no social mobility, no freedom. Unless you count making artisanal olive oil and bread or some stupid shit like that. Haven't you ever wondered why its like this? Why america and russia both have been almost completely de-industrialized after the cold war? Even though it would absolutely ten thousand percent be in both countries best interests to re-industrialize on a massive scale, green policy be damned?
