If the cost of gaming gets higher, social media becomes too toxic, and unemployment rises....could this be good for arcades?

[Scustin Bieburr]

In the 80s and 90s games were pretty expensive. The Super Nintendo Launched at the equivalent price of $460 in 2024 dollars. This is an ad from 1994

70 dollars for SF2 in today's currency would be around $152. So it would make sense for someone to go to the arcade every time they feel like playing instead of spending money on the game. The rental market benefitted from this too. So I think we might get a cottage industry of people renting out spaces to make crude Arcades.

 

[MajesticLion]

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

can’t wait to play GTA6 and Ghost of Yotei at the local arcade. Let me just get $200 dollars worth of quarters from the bank

 

[Batsute]

Hahahaha No,

• it’s a huge capital investment for a arcade owner
• Locations limit who could attend
• Japan has stopped invested in arcades unless it’s Hatsune Miku branded
• The business model doesn’t work in this era of patching and updating
• They have become to niche, to the point Japanese arcades are dying

 

[MushroomX]

Those days are gone, and even if arcades made a comeback, it wouldn’t last a month. The younger generation’s combination of poor hygiene and limited cardio means within weeks it would feel less like a fun hangout and more like walking into a chemical hazard.

 

[Ed MOTHERFUCKING G]

No but it could lead to GAAS and subscriptions being further adopted

 

[summwunn]

can’t wait to play GTA6 and Ghost of Yotei at the local arcade. Let me just get $200 dollars worth of quarters from the bank

.... they tried that shyt way back with CADASH . . .. . action-RPG but impossible to beat with one quarter because you had to keep feeding the machine to make sure the timer didnt go down to zero . ..

 

[Regular_P]

Those days are gone, and even if arcades made a comeback, it wouldn’t last a month. The younger generation’s combination of poor hygiene and limited cardio means within weeks it would feel less like a fun hangout and more like walking into a chemical hazard.

At least @smitty22 would have something to clean up.

 

[rabbid]

Nintendo fans have gotten so powered up that they’re now fantasizing about Gotham city style poverty scenarios where there’s always a silver lining to being fleeced

 

[The Intergalactic Koala]

Gamers prohibition era where arcades are speakeasys, and cabinets are the moonshine....

I'm going to bed

 

[Ahadi]

Arcades?



These kids want to be at home, stream and be social from their couches.

 

[Canon]

Barcades might get some more popularity as people drink more

days of the arcade are over tho

 

[Fatboi1]

I've been to an arcade that was surprisingly clean and well put together in Houston TX a few years ago. It was pretty nice. A friend of my brother's opened a small arcade area in our city, heard it's okay. It's not just arcade though, it's like a lounge with arcades.

 

[Ahadi]

Barcades might get some more popularity as people drink more

days of the arcade are over tho

Yep. Barcades, even Dave & Busters are still going.

 

[Luke Cage]

They converted this old grocery store into a giant arcade near me. Hundreds of pinball machines in there. Attracts an older audience though. I go in there and see a bunch of 50 and 60 year olds playing pinball.