The game industry crash is here /v/. Expect more closures over the next couple of weeks.Make your predictions here.
Don't care. Kill off the consoles already and take AAA with them.
Stop Killing Games is going to flop so the crash isn't happening yet
>>741193947Like I said back in 2018<, I'll believe it when I see it
thanks, scatman
Agenda 2030 still looking well on trackCongrats, lads
only studios I care about are japanese and random indie devs so i do not carenot a single AAA game that came out in the past like 15 years has been worth playing
I have more games in my library than I can ever play, so I'll be ok
>>741194130You don't understand, anon. When all these AAA studios start collapsing, we're gonna see a bunch of well-funded former AAA devs in the indie space pretending to be indie. We're entering the age of corporate indie.
>>741193947My prediction is less garbage games, better optimization, and smaller games (thank fuck)all good thingsMy hope is more low poly 3d games come out of this
>>741193947Scat man fat manBlack and white and brown manTell me about the color of your soul
>>741193947>CrashNot when Nintendo is still in charge
>>741193947christopher walken will be the next celebrity ;-;
>>741193947Mario 64 remake with optional full scatman john soundtrack
>>741194314>christopher walkenDidn't he kill himself via autoerotic asyphyxiation?
>>741194349that was robin wliiams
>>741193947Is that the Scatman?
Nintendo will survive cause retards willingly pay 80 shekels for games, consume those shitty key cards and accept the same reheated shit. I actually really respect everything i wrote above and i got a switch 2 so i can play jrpgs.
I'M THE SCATMAN*POP*
>>741193947Sadly it won't crash nearly hard enough. We aren't going to get a new NES and gaming renaissance out of it like what happened in the 80s...
>>741194395*David Carradine
>>741193947I will be making a decent amount of purchases on GOG during this upcoming summer sale. I want to own my games
>>741193947It probably won’t but I hope it does, the catharsis and renewal will be great. Not to mention games will probably be seen as less financially viable so all the malignant retards will stop pumping infinite money into it.
>>741193947john paul larkin is the goat, I was just listening to him today at the gymSign Now is underrated
>>741194346>>741193947I remember some ancient youtube videos with mario64 and wind waker using this guy's musicgood times
Damn, what a travesty. I guess developers will actually have to try now.
>>741196109https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vwql6OCfIVI
>>741196282>19 years agoough... fffuck
>>741196109Not one of yours, but this is the thing that comes into my mind every time I see this guy or hear the songhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfS3jdGLdys>>741193947Hope the whole industry burns. Destroy them all, Bethesda, Blizzard, anything, let it all die.
>>741196489WoW used to be so fun, I'd hate to see what it's like now
>>741193947The industry crash was in 2012. We are just seeing the dominoes finish their collapse as the industry consolidates into a handful of retards left holding the bag and trying to auction off their assets.>>741194239AAA hasn't existed in 15 years.>>741196489They're already dead.
>>741196282fuck that takes me back...
>>741193947New forever war soon
>>741196109I miss Megaman765.
>>741193947Never doubted the Don.
bethesda DEADblizzard DEADsquare enix DEADbioware DEADubisoft DEADrockstar DEADnintendo DEADfromsoft DEADcd projekt red DEADlarian DEADblack isle studios REBORN FROM THE ASHES TO DELIVER US KINO ONCE MORE
we live in a good times, anonsTOTAL trannie death!
>>741194239Corporate professionalism without the market power to rip us off is probably a great outcome
>>741196781holy basedwhere did he go
>>741196569qrd? I just woke up
>>741197474All Amerishart devs are being shut downAlmost every Amerishart game announced at TGA,SGF, whatever, is being cancelledSony + Microsoft are trying to cut their losses finally after a whole console generation of flopsJapanese and European game devs are untouched
>>741193947China will probably take over the western industry. They already knocked out the japanese one, so the only thing left is looking at the west. No directly but just funding games and reaping the gains.
>>741193947Vidya industry is crashing because of the woke leftists and SKG shit.But people will manage to blame "le greedy rich millionaires" even when they are the fucking reason why you have vidya in the first place.
>>741197627Tencent will probably buy more stakes on companies whose worth is circling down the drain and maybe get some IPs with them.
>>741193947PAPOPE
>>741197602Sounds like a rather inconsequential crash for the enthusiast gaymer (maybe the casual one). Those studios had their glory days long ago and now they have become too bloated or talent has retired, on top of being poorly managed. Sad if you were a fan of them but times have changed and they didn't keep up.
>>741197853Yep the only people who will be affected by this are normgroids that only play what is new and popular on gaypass or buy whatever has the biggest marketing budget.
>>741197602JAPANTOOOOOOOOOOSAmericasura...
>>741197252>Corporate professionalismAsk me how I know you've never had a job kek.
>>741193947>Ubislop shutdown.>Activision layoffs.>EA damage control mode. (Over BF6.)>Sony cancelling more games.>Bungie getting shat and memed on for Marathon mega-flop.
>Make your predictionsI will laugh very hard
>>741197740Tencent probably learned from Jews how to run a company.
>>741197602>All Amerishart devs are being shut downSource: I made it the fuck up
>>741193947>gamindustry in shamblesnep...
>>741197635Lmao go fuck yourself, shitface.
I don't think we're going to be even able to agree on what constitutes a 'crash'I think some people toss that word very casually
>>741198776Source:Microsoft and SonyGood riddance to the cancer that almost killed gaming.
>>741198858Japanese are not affected by this and especially not their indie-slop.
>>741193947However many studios shut down and game devs laid offIt isn't enoughMore
>>741198962I second this notion.MORE
>>741198893AAA is crashing, the videogame market in general is contracting due to their crash. Bloated monopolizing companies dangling the rotting corpse of once great IPs.
lol none of these devs made any games I was interested in
>>741198950>Nep>IndieYou absolute fucking retard
>>741198907Which ones?
I don't give a single fuck about any company but Fromsoft. Anything else good is made by one guy in his spare time.
>>741193947>publisher shuttering unprofitable studios>its a crash
>>741193947>game industry crash>it's just xbox being xboxlol
>>741199032Bethesda, id, double fine, santa monica studios, rockstar, ubisoft, rare etcCompletely untouched and still going to keep making AAAA 10/10 games because they are EU + JP>Capcom, Nintendo, Konami, CDPR, Rockstar, Treasure, Koei Tecmo, Nando Bamcai
>>741199309>>741199151It's a crash for gamepass renters. In a few weeks there's going to be no games on gamepass for them to pretend they play
>>741199364>rockstar, ubisoftBullshit.
>>741199394no one cares about gamepass
>>741193947Is Remedy dead yet?
>>741197474A lot of Microsoft's studios like Double Fine, Compulsion, Ninja Theory and other subsidiaries are shutting down or being sold. It's not as catastrophic as >>741197602/>>741198907/>>741199364 would have you believe but it is a pretty good indication that Microsoft and most of the AAA sphere is getting fucked sooner rather than later.
>>741199579I forgot to add layoffs too throughout Microsoft's corporate ecosystem but I suppose that is self-evident.
>>741199579Just the first ones out the door. 300 million dollar budgets with 8 year development cycles driven by bluehairs was doomed to fail. It's going to be a HUGE collapse of many big studios.
>>741199487Nobody on /v/ cares but goypass IS gaming for the gun and ball normalnig gamer
>>741194576WADUM POP
>>741199006its indie-tier with AA budget.
>if we just keep cutting off heads of the hydra, surely they'll stop growing out eventuallyAAA shit won't be going anywhere, at best it'll just rebrand. There will still be bloated studios producing overpriced shovelware and hailing it as the next coming of Jesus. Because the incentives are still there, and so are people willing to seize the opportunity.
You know what's sad? There's no way to save these dying studios. They're all infected with these kinds of people, from the bottom up. Karen from HR won't fire her DEI-hire friend. They'll bleed the company dry until the last paycheck, and after that, Karen will move on to a new job and rehire her besties. This shit is way to pozzed to be saved.
>>741199767I don't think so. What you're describing is the last decade. That party is over now - the numbers just don't work because the "modern audience" doesn't exist. Whites and asians play a wide variety of game types. All the others do not, and you can only make so many basketball games.
Valve and Nintendo are fine, I don't care if Sony and Microsoft are failing
>>741199646Of course. There is no way that the American/Canadian gaming industry isn't going to collapse wholesale soon just due to how expensive and time-consuming it is to make a 5-7 hour long movie game or a shitty always online multiplayer game that will either miss its intended target population or die off after 2 weeks. I'm just talking about what happened today.
>>741199819>Whites and asians play a wide variety of game types.Most white dudes are ball and gun gamers and most Asians are gacha addicts. I do not know why you think most people give the slightest shit about gaming outside of whether they can play as their favorite sportsball player of Zog-adjacent military (which is cringe and gay) or big breasted anime girls in softcore porn (which is based and straight), all while gambling (which is very cringe and gay).
>>741193947Good.Indie developers are the future.
>A couple more heads got lopped off the hydra guys, lets all start celebrating! Surely it won't just regrow them or anything.Two more weeks.
>>741199926Asians and whites used to play:>Fighting Games, Arcade Games, JRPGs, Dungeon Crawlers, Racing Games, Milsims and HC-FPS games.Gun and Ball gamers were mostly niggers and spics back in my generation.
>>741194239Yeah, expedition 33 being one of those
>>741201113>Fighting Games, That's blacks, Asians and Hispanics as shown by the historical and pretty much current ethnic makeup of the FGC.>Arcade GamesThat's a very broad terms and a lot of fighting games are/were arcade games. You aren't entirely wrong but not entirely right either.>JRPGsAsians and weaboos>Dungeon Crawlers, True.>Racing GamesTrue.>Milsims and HC-FPS games.True for milsims, depending on how realistic they aim to be. If it's a very realistic game like the erlier Tom Clancy games or Medal of Honor, then yes. If you're talking CoD, Battlefield, Rainbow Six or other similar games hell no. Even some women play those nowadays nigga. That shit is normalfagcore and has been for a while. HC FPS games are full of actual favela monkeys and various breeds of Easter Europeans, some of which straight up aren't white or Asian.>Gun and Ball gamers were mostly niggers and spics back in my generation.CoD, Battlefield and at one point Halo were the white dudebros' choice of multiplayer gun and ball game and normalfags of all skin colors bought various ball games. No game company would make games for a small minority of the population. Lots of whites (probably most really) were/are gun and ball gamers. Asians are mostly mobile gachafags but same shit.
>>741201637>Muh fucking gay club is important yo!Whites weren't interested in grinding like a monkey for some chance to fight in a foreign tournament. Most still played Tekken/Street Fighter/Soul Calibur.
>>741201637>Thinks CoD/BF/Rainbow Six (current) are "hardcore FPS games."Nigger brain damage, those are the "gun-ball" games. Only sports games white kids played were ones they would eventually end up doing or being known for in the real world. Even Martial Arts scene was bunch of fighting game nerds in the 00s and 10s. kek.
>>741193947I think any non-European and foreigner among those fired should also be deported for good measure. Thinking of citizenship revocation too.
>>741193947>perfect white theetsWas he a visitor?
She told you to stop making fun of pajeets and pajeetas.She told you.You didn't listen.You made your bed; now sleep in it.
>>741201808Nigger, the first FGC tournament was first organized by Seth Killian, who got mentioned in SF4 with the character Seth. No one cares about your retarded gay white nationalist LARP, especially considering you fags weren't there and don't play games now.>>741201886Then why did all my fellow whites in my high school in 2003 have Madden 2004 on their PS2s and Xboxes? White people bought sports games retard because they like sports and love to LARP as football stars so they can get bitches. Black people do the same shit too. You niggers live in this weird ass reality man. Nothing you say is remotely true. Sportsfaggotry crosses racial boundaries with the exception of Asians really. Most normalfag whites don't play the games you like. They play Madden, NFL games and CoD or Battlefield.
>>741193947>more gamer consolidation to live service games like fortnite and roblox>the death of western singleplayer games outside of indieslop>the devastation of japanese/korean/chinese studios by "venture capitalists"western studios were the "containment board" of game studiosnow that they will be gone, i hope you dont regret the future you asked for
>muh catastrophic layoffsYou mean the normalization of staff numbers back to pre-covid era companies. Or did we forget the obviously unsustainable overhiring that everyone was doing during covid thanks to government gibs? The gaming market was operating on the speculative infinite growth that it saw during the short period of covid when people were spending more on games than ever before, but any real gamer could've told you that this was not going to last forever.There will be no extinction event for the AAA industry. Nothing ever happens. It'll scale down to what it was 6 years ago and that's about it. I feel for the people who lost their jobs since that is always a shitty thing to go through, especially in the gaming industry where the majority of USA jobs being concentrated within California and a few in Texas so many of these people not only lost their jobs but will likely have to move away as well causing big disruptions to families. This is obviously a horrid thing, but it's the natural conclusion to the post-Covid economy where we are still feeling its effects. It's just that the big waves are finally starting to catch up with us instead of the small ripples that trickled down in the years before.
>>741202078>weren't there.Stop larping yourself nigga, you live in ghetto hood and don't interact with whites let alone leave your parent's basement for one thing: I know for fact what's what, you are gay and dumb and try to glaze up your own people that are the easiest in 1v1 situations without any supervisor from the kikes trying to mitigate any damage from "losing to a bunch of whites" you can't handle it even against non-whites like gypsie-crusader, your people are a joke man. stop crying, your people can't even maintain fucking vehicles.
>>741202336Imagine being this assblasted that I'm not a mentally raped /pol/faggot like you are. It would help if you stopped acting like a woman and get so caught up about identity politics about which race plays what video games of all things. Fucking loser.
>>741202336>you live in ghetto hood>I know for fact>glaze upIESLB
attention all microsoft employees in this thread and on this board:i will not be buying an elder scrolls game that wasn't made by bethesda
