Will piracy and emulation to be blame for the inevitable? Studies show most gamers play old games now and don't buy new releases like they used to.
>>736333165Maybe its because they isolate people who don’t have high end PCs or next gen consoles by making games with insanely demanding specs, I mean Senua 2 had the best graphics in gaming and it flopped. Most people don’t care about graphics or blackrock funded political agendas we just want good fun games.
>>736333165Zoomies just buy an NES Classic or whatever instead of downloading an emulator. The blame goes at the developers for spending so much money making shit nobody wants.
>>736333165I'm they'll try blaming it on that, but the simple facts are that people are fucking broke, games are becoming more and more expensive, hardware is reaching the point where they're cost prohibitive, and companies are spending way too much making gamesso fewer people can even afford gaming while companies are pissing away moneyof course that model is going to fail
I have never once spent more than $60 on a video game, and the last time I did that was 5 years ago. Since then I have never once spent more than 30. If these niggroids think I am going to spend $70 on a new release that is guaranteed to be a pozzed with garbage modern gameplay or minimally pozzed but still garbage modern gameplay, well idk what to say other than lolVideo games peaked 20 years ago, why would I play anything new?
New games cost too much to keep buying when you can get better old games on sale for almost nothing New hardware costs too much to only play new games that are mid
>>736333165no, an oversaturated market full of garbage shit games that cost nearly $100 will cause it
>>736333165>UE5>massively bloated budgets and shit optimization>out of touch AAA studios>increased prices for AAA gamesI dunno what could be to blame
>>736333265>New games are shit>They can't even be pirated because 30 layers of DRM and always online>Blame pirates for people not buying slop anyways
>crash?how can there be a crash in an informed global market with free choice?if one company goes belly-up another one will fill the space
>>736334325>if one company goes belly-up another one will fill the spaceWho's going to fill Xbox's space when their next jeetbox fails?
>>736334325when journalists and industry types talk about the crash, they're talking exclusively about the traditional western AAA industry
>>736334325AAA publishers will stop approving budgets of 500 million and some guy named Patel will insist video games as a medium are "crashing"
>>736334279It's definitely not the release broken game and patch it 6-12 months later strategy everyone had been doing
>>736334431True, it's those pesky anon's and their memes
>>736334387playstationgabecubexbox's niche is "couch gaming", which the latter two qualify for just fine>>736334391then they're retards who don't know the circumstances in history that enabled the crash to happenit was massive amounts of mass-produced, nigh-indistinguishable consoles with the same shite games preloaded on them that caused consumers to give up on video games because nobody knew what was good or not, causing those companies to burn outthe crash ended with the NES, with nintendo's seal of quality promising consumers that a given game was completable and worth purchasingnowadays we have youtubers, streamers, review sites, indie games, and AA games filling every kind of niche imaginable. people aren't uninformed, they know to avoid bad games and to buy good gamesif the current western AAA companies make bad games then it sucks to be them
>>736334565>gabecubeI dunno, man. I doubt it's going to do as well as the 'eck
>>736334742no doubt there, the deck fulfilled a relatively-untapped niche of portable powergaming. only the switch had any claim in that area and everyone knows the switch is an underpowered console that struggles with modern AAA gamesgabecube as a couch gaming model also competes with ps5 and xbone, trying to break ground in an already-established marketif microsoft and sony keep fucking up they'll lose out, and less expensive alternatives can thrive instead (gabecube), but at present it'll be difficult
>>736333165There will be no crash. Most of the AAA industry and GaaS slop might be gone before the end of the decade, but gaming as a whole will persist.
>>736333165It's the global economy, and nothing causal from the game industry. If it wasn't for the geopolitical crash games would've been bigger than ever right now, and workers wouldn't get laid off. All of that happens because there's an arms race with China which the MAGAs have taken on through what they ppl call "accelerationism" where you hyperaccelerate the previous 2030 goals for AI, surveillance, and warmongering, in order to knock China out of balance, and maybe, just maybe, it will have enough of a knock-on effect so that China makes bad political moves, and ends up disadvantaged by it.They're literally tanking the economy just in some weird 5D chess game to rebalance power to make China weaker. It's going in China's favor right now. And it just affects all workers.They're obviously shifting to a War Economy in the coming years, so no more time for fun and entertainment. In that sense the game crash is planned in order to get semiconductor production away from the consumer market and back into big arms production. That's why you gotta hoard your favorite games, and pray that the world starts being peaceful after 5 years or so. But if it's like the WW2 it'll probably be 2045 before we get out on the other side of this new phase of history. I don't think gaming will go away but there's unfortunately a chance it will, because plenty of countries are starting to make campaigns against screen-use, and calling to put limits on how much time we spend on social media, which eventually becomes games and computers in general. Treating it like the new Tobacco. If that goes too far, it ends with such a big disincentive to video games that it literally becomes taboo to play them, and if that's the case, you can't make them either, or the industry will be completely miniscule.
