>Bioware is on the verge of dying>Bungie went from THE prestige developer who only needed to move a finger and it would generate hype to being a complete mess limping along a game with barely 2k monthly players>Ubisoft is one flop away from bankrupcy>Xbox is in its SEGA Dreamcast era>Rockstar and Bethesda arent developers you can blindly trust to deliver a quality product anymore>western AAA gaming has driven off a cliff>Japan has made a comeback and is the only one not engaging in mass layoffs >Playstation is the dominating console again despite being even cockier than the early PS3 days>the average game takes about 7 years to release since anouncement, people used to think a game was cancelled or vaporware if it didnt show itself for more than 3 years>Booth babes are gone and boobs are worse than the devil now>people dont believe games make you violent anymore but somehow they will make you a rapist or nazi>Nintendo has genuine 3rd party support again>Half Life 3 still isnt outimagine going back to 2007 and telling yourself all of this
You forgot that EA is on life support despite being mortally wounded.
>>748142821its fucking weird how not even 10 years ago if you looked at a release year half the games releasing that year would have been published by EA and nowadays EA literally only has yearly sportsbal and Battlefield every now and then, they even cancelled fucking Need for Speed
>pools closed>shoop da whoopAh fuck man, I'm old as hell.
>>748142551>Rockstar and Bethesda arent developers you can blindly trust to deliver a quality product anymoreThat was never true dude. They were always kind of ass.>>748142918It's not when you consider how EA mismanaged the fuck out of everything that isn't Battlefield and sportsball and used the aforementioned games to make up for those losses, only for that to blow up in their face when the skimp on their quality.
You ever just feel like the world changed overnight Not even because of Covid but even before that
>>748142551How many Anons orbited this woman that night?
>>748144393the world literally ended on december 21st 2012, we are currently in purgatory
>>748144374>Battlefield>Not mismanagedthey somehow even dropped the ball for 6 despite it having one of the biggest hype campaigns since BF3, its actively losing players to Wardogs now
>>748144504>could have an heroe'd in 2012 as a kissless virgin but pussied out>now i have a house, family and two dogs but the world is going to shit but i have too much to lose now
>>748142551>Playstation is the dominating console again You had to put some bait in there didn't you, couldn't hold back.
>>748144393COVID changed the world exactly like that though. I will say that 2012 was the beginning of the world changing for the worse, but it didn't really get bad until 2018/2019.>>748144518I said that. EA managed to skimp on the quality of their only main sellers and now even normalfag gun and ballers don't want to play their shitty Battlfield and EA Sportsball games anymore.
>>748142551>Playstation is the dominating console againuhh it never stopped being the dominant console. Consoles are dying out anyway
>>748142551>Suomiplease don't give us attention
>>748144630>the most popular hardcore gaming console at 100 million plus units>absolutely decimated Xbox in sales>is the baseline for all AAA games being madeit is the culturally dominating console wether you like it or not, its a complete turnaround compared to how they were doing with the PS3.They are currently fucking up big time no denying
>E3 is dead forever I would never believe this
>>748142821>mortally woundedEA is a zombie company, practically dead considering they will simply not be able to produce the results their buyout would necessitate, so it's only a matter of time until they get shafted
>>748144896>>is the baseline for all AAA games being madeaight mane I'll give that one to you, you are right.
>>748142551>Japan has made a comebackYou have to be the most retarded weeb on Earth to below that. Japan is currently engaging in mass AI-slopifying their games, which doesn't even make sense because they make the same handful of titles over and over.
>>748142551Nothing lasts foreverEverything dies eventually
>>748144393No because I’m not a complete fool
>>748142918Doesn't FIFA sell like 10-20M copies a year? EA isn't going anywhere. Ubisoft is pure shit too, but retards keep giving them money, see the Black Flag remake.
>>748142551>Bethesda arent developers you can blindly trust to deliver a quality product anymore>bethesda >quality product kekekekekekek
>>74814617190% of football fans are thirdies who pay a fraction of the full cost due to regional pricing or just share copies through gaming cafes.Real fifa money is mobile since it’s pure gachaslop now
>>748146171>With the deal closed, EA will have to pay off $18 billion in debt that will accrue $1.8 billion interest per year.That's probably not going to cut it.
>>748146240>>748146240>Real fifa money is mobile since it’s pure gachaslop nowTrue. One of my cousins kids plays FIFA non-stop, and he buys the players etc for real money. Given that they release a new FIFA every year, he's a fucking retard, or at least my cousin is a retard for paying for it. Couldn't you just update the players/teams yourself for free instead of buying a new game?
>>7481443932015/16 feels like a dividing point.
>>748144393>>748144504>>748144692>2012It was the financial crisis and vidya overtaking movies that drove chasing trends to the garbage we have today.
>>748145983You compare how Japanese devs operate today they atleast work on their own terms and are actually making good games again compared to the hellscape that was 2005-2014 were everyone was chasing that sweet western money
>>748146171FIFA never really recovered since they lost the actual FIFA license and became EA FC, wich still loses sales yearly
>>748146656>and are actually making good games againNo they're not, their game development sector is dying, and has been for a long time outside of the same few IPs they've been milking dry for the last 20+ years.
>>748146656Why do people parrot the dark ages of Japanese games when it was really the dark ages of JRPGs? But Street Fighter 4 and DMC 4 came out in that period and sold like mad just in Capcom's case, and that's not mentioning shit like Lost Planet and Dead Rising. It was mostly JRPGs that got shafted during that period. Everything else Japanese had a decent to good time during that period.>>748146878Then why aren't isn't the Japanese game sector going through the same economic contractions that the American game sector is under going? Even Europe is making game dve jobs. The only games industry that's dying right now is America's.
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>>748146994>The only games industry that's dying right now is America's.That's what a decade of hiring DEI/diversity does to your studios. I can't even remember the last game I bought that was developed from a US studio
>>748146994yeah and then DMC got handed to Ninja Theory and we got that bullshit, Lost Planet died with 2, Dead rising went to shit because it got handed to western devs, SF4 got milked to death and lets not forget the games that were cancelled like Darkstalkers and Megaman Legends thats just Capcom, i didnt even get into Konami who was making a sport of mismanaging everything that wasnt Metal Gear because Kojima had autistic control over the series
>>748146994>Everything else Japanese had a decent to good time during that period.as a general Japanese horror fan but especially a Silent Hill/RE fan i want to kick you in the nuts
>>748144374>EA mismanaged the fuck out of everything that isn't Battlefield and sportsball>implying EA hasn't mismanaged the fuck out of Battlefield
>>748142551I'd be unsurprised. I've always been annoyed with retards who think that "too big to fail" is a real concept, and the western industry was being taken over by people who hate gamers.
>>748146994Ironically the best thing that can be said about the depressing pandering nip IPs to the west period was the counterculture effect, e.g. how Final Fight Streetwise led to God Hand.
>>748142551>>Bioware is on the verge of dying>>Ubisoft is one flop away from bankrupcy>>Xbox is in its SEGA Dreamcast era>>Rockstar and Bethesda arent developers you can blindly trust to deliver a quality product anymore>>western AAA gaming has driven off a cliff>>Japan has made a comeback and is the only one not engaging in mass layoffsFantastic news. Thanks!
>>748147342Should have started with [GREAT NEWS]
>>748146878>their game development sector is dying, and has been for a long timeAs far as i can see Japan pumps out more successful new IPs these days than the west, the entire western industry is collectively hoping GTA VI creates a turn around in consumer trust
>>748146384The entire period from the 2008 GFC to 2016 will probably be seen by future historians as the end of the post-Cold War prosperity era. Things were still "okay" but the disintegration of culture and living standards were accelerating much like they did pre-WWII.
>>748147105>yeah and then DMC got handed to Ninja Theory and we got that bullshitbecause Capcom listened to the retard Kenji inafune, who thought that Western games were outdoing Japanese games (they really weren't) and hired a Western dev to work on one of their key franchises only to turn out shite.>Lost Planet died with 3When they gave it to western devs for the same reason>Dead rising went to shit because it got handed to western devs, Ditto. The same shit is why Dark Void is even a (painfully mid) thing, that whole Western initiative push kinda fucked up the reputation of a lot of their franchises. They farmed out dead Rising 4 out to western devs and other smaller IPs but they won't let their cash cows and prized IPs in Western hands again outside of spinoffs. This was during the period where Inafune was the SCO of Capcom so he mre than likely signed most of these contracts that made these games come to light in the first place and his anti-Japanese views are well-known (he actually agreed with Phil Fish that Japanese games >SF4 got milked to deathIt kickstarted the rebirth of the FGC and led to ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3. Even then the scene for the game stayed until SF5 came out in 2015.> lets not forget the games that were cancelled like Darkstalkers and Megaman LegendsThat's just typical Capcom retardation. The same type of thinking that gave up paid demos/ game s we already owned being used as engamement metrics led to BoF 6 being a fucking mobile game that lasted a year before being shut down.Konami and Square Enix are another can of worms that although the former had problems due to a power struggle between Kojima and the other board members and the latter has been on the decline ever isnce Sakaguchi left. >>748147319True. I'm just glad the Nips caught on that no one cares for them aping Westen games and just want Japanese games.
>>748147798*This was during the period where Inafune was the SCO of Capcom so he mre than likely signed most of these contracts that made these games come to light in the first place and his anti-Japanese views are well-known (he actually agreed with Phil Fish that Japanese games are shit and Japanese developers should make more Western style games)i didn't even finish that sentence but yes he's on record as saying basically https://web.archive.org/web/20180715123237/https://www.wired.com/2012/04/keiji-inafune-qa/https://web.archive.org/web/20180715152031/https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2015-07-03-keiji-inafune-video-gamings-harshest-critichttps://web.archive.org/web/20180715152048/https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-03-08-mega-man-creator-laments-tragic-state-of-japanese-games-industryhttps://web.archive.org/web/20170528204625/https://www.destructoid.com/tgs-09-keiji-inafune-dumps-on-tokyo-game-show-2009-149909.phtml (This one is from 2009 when he was the SCO of Capcom)Basically DmC, Dark Void, Lost Planet 3 and Dead Rising 3 and 4 are his fault.
>>748147623>>748147031>>748146994Most of their revenue comes from mobile gaming, dummies. They are literally a nation of gacha whales.
>>748147953We're talking about Japanese developers, not gamers dude.That graph is talking about the spending habits of Japanese gamers domestically. Japanese games are sold internationally with ease on Steam, the Switch 2, the Snoystation and even the Xbetabox. A lot of their sales come from China and Korea nowadays. It's still saying the obvious in that the game crash isn't affecting the Japs though. just the American market because the executives at all those companies though the COVID gains they got would last forever.
>>748147953Japan's gaming population: Two black guys, two white women, one half-white guy.
>>748144393No, i can tell it was gradular.
>>748142551Fyi bioware is functionally closed. Their main office in canada is a ghost town and the other offices are support studios.
>>748148382Also Capcom is best known for my favorite character, butch Captain America.
>>748142551Bethesda is ultra mega successful with all their games and you know Elder Scrolls is going to sell massive amounts because it's the most hyped game next to GTA6.
>>748146112Things are usually superseeded or replaced, what we get now is just stagnation, if not outright decay.
>>748142551I was just as amazed people played Bioslop then as I am now.
>>748148678Okay Todd get off the computer en get to work, do we need to contat Asha again?
>>748142551>>the average game takes about 7 years to release since anouncementThis is fucking atrocius. Seven years is what it took for all first four DMC games to come out. The entire Mass Effect trilogy came out in five.What the goddamn fuck happened to game development.
>>748148713Bioshock is only looked favorably because it was a normalfags first plottwist and everything that came after was genuine dogshit
>>748148678Bethesda is already taking big hits to its reputation. This might not manifest as financial problems overnight, but it WILL manifest as financially problems down the road unless they make games that people like.I'm sure that Elder Scrolls 6 will blow it out of the water, but the bigger question is whether their next and the game after that will do the same. Same thing with GTA6 and Rockstar.
>>748148678>it's the most hyped game next to GTA6.kek not even on my radar, after Starfield it's already dead on arrival.
>>748148830Remember when everyone mocked John Romero because Daikatana took 3 years to release? Yeah.
>>748148772damn, lucky Todd.
>>748146171Black Flag resynced was barely a splash in the water and doesn't negate the billions the company wasted for the last decade
>>748148916People mocked Duke Nukem forever for taking 11 years to release and now you have GTA VI wich took 13 years and Star Citizen wich after 14 years since the Kickstarter still isnt out of fucking ALPHA.Standards are in the fucking drain these days
>>748148830You can thank all of the journo maggots who complained on behalf of all of purple haired new "devs" about MUH CRUNCH CULTURECrunch still isnt dead btw, devs are simply allowed to sit on their ass doing the bare minimum for years on end and then crunch the last year before release.Just look at Xbox studios and how much deadweight they fired this year and suddenly Bethsoft announced a lineup of games
>>748149041I'm kinda split on whether I'll play GTA6 but let's be honest, it WILL be a better game than Duke Nukem Forever.
>>748149370Im having my doubts since over half the dev team is nothing but outsourced indian sweatshop codersDNF was a mediocre but atleast functional gameThese street shitters somehow made a game that was even too broken by fucking Bethesda standards
>>748148712Everything in the world is in a state of limbo and decay right nowIt’s like living in the late 4th century
>>748149786Every civilized country has embraced feminism.
>Rockstar and Bethesda arent developers you can blindly trust to deliver a quality product anymoreIf you ever trusted bethesda to deliver a quality game you have extremely low standards.
>>748150236You just don't like the kind of game that they make. Morrowind was legendary and Oblivion and Skyrim are good games. Fallout 3 was the kind of game that middle school boys dream up during recess; a dream game for the time. Daggerfall was also good for its era even if it's too one-note now. I didn't really like Fallout 4, but that's because of the writing creating a hollow world that's not interesting to explore, not the raw gameplay mechanics.
>>748150615All the games they've made ever since the Terminator ones are extremely buggy and rely on modders to fix it. Not to mention a good chunk of the in game systems (up to and including combat) are half-baked at best and very very easy to exploit. I will grant that Daggerfall and Morrowind are fun games to get lost in and have dumb fun, but that's about it. They make games of very poor quality and always have.
>Playstation is the dominating console again despite being even cockier than the early PS3 days>Booth babes are gone and boobs are worse than the devil now>people dont believe games make you violent anymore but somehow they will make you a rapist or naziThese are changing rapidly. People hate Sony because their games are made for nobody (this other stuff wouldn't matter if people were enjoying the games) and the Karen brigade that cries about unrealistic beauty standards and sexual objectification while sexually objectifying Leon has been losing ground for years.
>>748142551i see people like this having fun and now i honestly regret ever shitting on them with post irony humor wich brought us the no fun humor zoomers have todayRage Comics i judged you too harshly
>2007WHEN I WAS
>>748151048I miss when normalfags were genuine about their retardation
>>748148831Are you a bot? The retard you replied to wasn't even talking about Bioshock.
>>748153152excuse my retardation, i thought he meant that with Bioslop
>>748142551>>Nintendo has genuine 3rd party support againthis makes me most happynever thought id see the day Nintendo would crawl out of the hole Yamauchi dug for them
>>748148772jej
I get that things change, I just don't like the way they changed. I ~know~ it was better before. But you had to be there to really know that.
>>748156517i used to always hear the strawman argument>YOU JUST HATE CHANGEI hope these faggots are happy
>>748144393Unironically the 2016 US election did that.It just seemed to utterly break reality, and ironically Trump winning just made the “SJW” stuff at the time 100x worse and more mainstream.Its crazy to think that young people these days don’t know that in 2015 and earlier, it wasn’t normal for people to be 24/7 obsessed with politics and talking about it all the time.
