Gaming Crash incoming, or has it already began?

[winb83]

It kinda seems like buying dedicated hardware to play games on is mostly a Gen X through Millennial thing and as more of us age out of hardcore gaming Gen Z and Gen Alpha aren't coming on board in numbers to compensate. Their popular games aren't dependent on specific hardware and availability is everywhere.

The entire business model is shifting from simply making great high quality games to attempting to take out stuff like Roblox, Minecraft, Fortnite, Apex ect.

Game studios live and die taking their swings at these games. There's only room for so many of these juggernaut games and for the next game to be a success it has to take out one. For Fortnite to make it PUBG had to decline.

 

[SNG]

The truth that people still won't accept is that the consumers are the cause of this. People keep whining about innovation and something different but every month we see that the top selling games are GAAS. Even looking at PlayStations financials they said that 40 percent of their revenue came from micro transactions from GAAS. So what are these companies supposed to do? Ignore the numbers.

Hell the GTA 5 is still one of the top selling games every month and it released on the PS3 and people are constantly playing GTA online and buying shark cards. They had no incentive to rush and push out GTA 6. Bungie is releasing Marathon next month and they're facing backlash because their Destiny 2 players want them to still release content for it and it's a 10 yr old game. People say they want new games and they hate the way the gaming industry is going. But they keep buying 2K, Madden, COD every year. If you actually wanted change you would do so with your wallets....but most people are comfortable and being fake mad is more important than actually doing the work

Not going to happen boomers and some millennials don’t really fukk with transactions but it’s the younger generations that were born into this that don’t know any better that will keep it alive and here to stay.

I think single player games in order for it to survive and have long legs will have to incorporate more dlcs to extend the stories. We’ve seen Cyberpunk, Resident Evil etc have success in this.

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

“Miserable nikkas” - the thread

 

[The Mad Titan]

 

[The Mad Titan]

 

[Half A $]

Gaming Crash! AAA games are dead!

"Resident Evil Requiem is a record breaker with five million sales in under a week.
By comparison, 2023's Resident Evil 4 Remake took three months to hit that number, and 2021's Resident Evil Village took five months. Requiem sold best on PS5, but there was a huge jump in PC players. The game's peak Steam concurrent player number of 344,214 was more than double the previous best (2023's Resident Evil 4).
In the press release celebrating the result, Capcom cited Requiem's "worldwide acclaim" for its commercial success."

Let me guess, this doesn't count because the huge jump in pc players is from China?

 

[MeachTheMonster]

Gaming Crash! AAA games are dead!

"Resident Evil Requiem is a record breaker with five million sales in under a week.
By comparison, 2023's Resident Evil 4 Remake took three months to hit that number, and 2021's Resident Evil Village took five months. Requiem sold best on PS5, but there was a huge jump in PC players. The game's peak Steam concurrent player number of 344,214 was more than double the previous best (2023's Resident Evil 4).
In the press release celebrating the result, Capcom cited Requiem's "worldwide acclaim" for its commercial success."

Let me guess, this doesn't count because the huge jump in pc players is from China?

This is like saying racism don’t exist cause oprah made it