https://www.npd.com/news/blog/2022/2022s-video-game-market-declines-expected-to-continue/
>U.S. consumer spending on video game hardware, content and accessories is now projected to reach $55.5 billion in 2022, a decline of 8.7% when compared to 2021.
>Some of the drivers of the decline include the return of experiential spending, higher prices in everyday spending categories such as food and fuel, the uncertain supply of video game console hardware and certain accessories such as gamepads, and a lighter release slate of games, among others.
>On the content front, the expectation is that year-on-year declines will be experienced across PC, console and mobile platforms in both premium game sales and recurrent post-launch spending.
OH NO NO NO NO THE GAMES INDUSTRY IS CRASHING
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I blame piracy.
They will all blame every other scapegoat or boogeyman but NEVER the woke pandering and virtue signalling, gross amounts of moneygrubbing and other general israelitery that actually caused it.
I blame the fact that THERE'S NO FRICKING GAMES.
Stranger of Paradise > anything that cane out before '94
>Monster Hunter
>Elden Ring
>Kirby
>FF7Remake and Yuffie's Quest in a playable state
>streamlined World remake disguised as new game
>open world shitty game with bullet hell bosses
>a kirby game LOL
>FF7 the movie game
>I don't like it so it's not a game
Avast ye filthy fricking casual
There are games to play you're just depressed because you spend your whole day here.
Not him but most games suck atm. Show me a game on the same level as Spy Cooper right now. Yeah I thought so.
A Hat in Time.
HAHAHA
No.
See? Depressed loser doesn't want try new games, just wants to complain about them.
Nothing about depression, strawman homosexual. Hat in Time will never touch the quality of Spy Cooper.
SLY COOPER?!
Oh you're just trolling. Good show anon. That shit wasn't even 6/10 on the ebst of days.
Listen, Im half asleep and chatting with my gf. I dont give af about your autistic spiels
Stop talking to your tulpa.
no i don't, i even play with friends almost daily
most of us agree modern gaymes suck ass
>OH NO NO NO NO THE GAMES INDUSTRY IS CRASHING
The Japanese industry is trending upwards though.
And western corporate garbage crashing would only strengthen the industry as a whole.
If file-sharing was the issue then other sectors of the industry shouldn't trend upwards. The western videogames industry just has real quality issues. And maybe even normalgays are starting to wisen up to it.
Good, Frick the Industry! When the music industry nearly died there was a period of artistic bliss. The same should happen to video games.
It's time.
>another video game crash
I'm ok with this, we need a second crash to start a new era of nonstop kino and less woke pandering.
The kino era has already started, if you're Nintendo exclusive like I am.
>Live a LIve
>Xeno
>Fricking Azure Striker Gunvolt 3
July is crazy for Switch owners.
Switch shot can just be emulated easy on PC. No reason to own one.
Yes there is. israelitebucks help propagate new things to pirate. Some of us are going to have to bite the bullet so the others may continue life on the high seas.
>Live a LIve
>port
>Xeno
>shit
>Fricking Azure Striker Gunvolt 3
>on other consoles
Yea so amazing.
It's finally over.
good
most devs should go bankrupt and never make another game again
Maybe it will cleanse the market
I think the industry needs a crash for a time. It's become over-commercialized and run by CEO/CFO types that just want games to be a revenue source in their portfolios, rather than being run by a bunch of weirdos who have imagination and the desire to share their ideas with others.
Yes, frick all of it
The "gaming industry" is diseased, rotten to the core
We need to pull it out by the roots, wipe the slate clean, BURN IT DOWN
Wow it's like the hunger for infinite growth was fricking impossible to sustain or something.
>the return of experiential spending
So the video game industry relies on people blindly spending money?
>OH NO NO NO NO THE GAMES INDUSTRY IS CRASHING
If fricking only. I genuinely wish games outright stopped coming out for the next five years
Good, let it all dissolve in chaos, so that it rises again in a much better state.
>If it doesn't grow forever then is going to die
Good job OP, you are ready to be a CEO
last 2 years barely had any big or good release. each events are more and more lackluster. The lack of E3 probably is the cause.
Let it crash. It will be better after
>people bought more video game stuff when they all sat at home during covid lockdowns compared to now when things going back to normal
>OH NO GUYS IT'S A LE HECKING BIBEO GAME CRASH!!!!!
morons
SAME AS IT EVER WAS
SAME AS IT EVER WAS
SAME AS IT EVER WAS
I don’t know shit about finance but it seems that with the economy in the shitter people might think twice about spending money on a game instead of important things like food. I don’t think it’ll be a crash though, at least not in the sense of a ton of companies going under over night. Interesting to see if the $70 price tag they’re trying to inch towards sticks around.
Hopefully video games crash hard and all of the trannies and SJWs leave the industry
>A lighter release slate of games
Lmao even the investment advisory's asking where all the fricking games at
I don't think a crash would hypothetically save gaming.
The biggest problem the industry still has to tackle is the large soulless teams that are needed to meet the "demand" of your run of the mill normie gamer that wants graphical fidelity and online gameplay
>Crash comes, market cap lower, purchasing power lower
>Shit, we need to lay off 80% of this large, soulless team in order to keep the lights on
>Shit, that means we can't keep up with the demands for graphical fidelity and online gameplay that your run of the mill normie (normalgay, say it right anon) gamer wants
>Guess we'll just need to use the core, soulful team to make niche, 'core gamer' targeting games
It’s so cringe when you guys fantasize about a second crash. The first one only happened because of particular circumstances and the medium is far too advanced and huge now for it to ever happen again. The entire industry would just go under one day like it did when the medium was in its infancy and considered a fad
last year was inflated by covid stay at homes, we are just returning to normalcy.
Also we're entering a recession.
Fricking how though? Multinational corps are making records profits, home prices are at all time highs but still go under contract for above asking prices within hours of being listed, and everywhere I go I see help wanted signs. Everyone seems to have and be spending money like it's going out of style.
Uh, yeah? Pre-recessions see records-highs and peak-prices. That's why there's going to be a recession now.
Corps are making money at the top, not necessarily profit for the company. Home prices are inflated (just like they were before 2008). As for the wanted signs, this happened because of stimmy checks (which the gov caused).
And women spending money due to desperation is not new.
I've been playing game for 20 years.
Why players are leaving? Because all games are the same unfinished, bugged rebranded soulless crap with micro transactions and DLCs to cash cow this industry. There are tons of talent in this industry but it completely get ruined by the people at the top calling the shots. These people only care about profit and not quality. It's not fun anymore to play games. It just kills time.
Also all the SJW femininazi craps needs to go out the window. I don't understand who thought it was a good idea to INTENTIONALLY make characters ugly. Oh yes I can play an ugly girl in this game so the roasties who don't even play these games don't seethe on twitter. Jesus grow up. I'm skinny dude and I don't care if there are mostly only buff roided dudes in my games. Seriously how soft are you? What's next? Making all characters fat to not hurt obese people feelings?
HOLY CRAP LOIS
>people about to not be able to afford food and gas
>muh bideo game think of the poor multi billion AAA companies
good riddance
Good. Burn the whole fricking industry to the ground. It’s a cesspit of woke companies circle jerking themselves, propped up by blackrock.
covid quarantine artificially inflated game sales because normalgays who couldn't go out needed something to do. The numbers are just regressing to normal now
~le