>A decade ago, everyone was saying Nintendo would go 3rd party due to the Wii U's failure
>Now it seems that Sony and Microsoft are the ones leaving the console race
>And companies are gutting themselves left and right by the day
Crazy how things change within the span of 10 years. It wouldn't surprise me if Nintendo was the only major company left standing, maybe with some indies picking up slack, depending on if Steam and EGS are still around. Welcome to the 21st Century Gaming Crash. Well, no, many industries are going under at the moment, so let's call it the 21st Century ENTERTAINMENT Crash. Let's hope things are brighter on the other side.
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Big companies kicking out """work"""ers are unironically happy news for the consumers
good games with talented staff are ahead of us anons
>good games with talented staff are ahead of us anons
yeah so glad the diverse and talented staff havent changed over the decades and now more women, queers and people of color who were put in the back, while straight white men took their credit, can finally shine front and center
it would be a MASSIVE cope and narcissism to think that only straight white men can make good games and that people of diversity werent involved in game design from the get go
touch grass and have sex
I don't get it. That image is correct.
> it would be a MASSIVE cope and narcissism
You’ve come to the right place for that.
>good games with talented staff are ahead of us
anon, companies do this shit all the time
they cycle though workers so they don't have to raise wages
they will recruit the same number of workers and shuffle them out in a couple of years
this is the fricked up kind of 1-percenter hypercapitalism we live in now
Interestingly, the PC is now the beneficiary of the console wars.
And it's getting games from all three parties, Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo (4K120FPS emulators).
The more they fight, the more games the PC gets.
PC definitely has the upper hand at the moment, but both Steam and EGS have been struggling from what I hear, and you have smaller stores like GOG shooting themselves in the foot. How long before they all die out and developers can sell games on their own accord again like in the old times?
I don't see how steam is struggling considering they make like a billion dollars a year from csgo cases and every time there's big hit on steam they get 20% of the cut
Valve blew their war chest on the Steam Deck which was cool for us but didn't really lead to profits for them.
I told yall theure not even trying to acknowledge their real competition for cidya machine, meta.
>mfw Nintendo is the only one left
>Graphicsgays are single-handedly destroying an entire industry
Reevaluating my distaste for those guys right now. Maybe they aren't so bad after all.
>It wouldn't surprise me if Nintendo was the only major company left standing
Nintendo is not immune to this either.
The WiiU was such a failure that it managed to be outsold by far by the already problematic Nintendo 64, even in an industry that is probably 5x bigger than it was back then. Nintendo is not immune to colossal failures and two WiiUs in a row could force the company to radically change its focus and business.
The one thing Nintendo won't lose is the power of its brand and its IPs. But when it comes to producing the hardware that serves as its entertainment center, Nintendo will always be on a tightrope, because it's impossible to discover the next trend and there are thousands of companies that can develop the technology today that will make Nintendo's consoles unfashionable tomorrow.
You're right for the most part, but if both Sony and Microsoft become 3rd party and stop making consoles, who's going to step in to rival Nintendo in making a higher powered console? A lot of western companies will probably see console manufacturing as a money sink from Sony and Microsoft's failures, and many Japanese companies are probably too afraid to go up against Nintendo.
Like sure, there's the PC market, but that's kind of it's own beast with it's own landscape and hardware situations.
Ouyabros… stadiachads… now is our time
>if both Sony and Microsoft become 3rd party and stop making consoles, who's going to step in to rival Nintendo in making a higher powered console?
ENTER
Honestly, high-powered consoles is also not set in stone. Nintendo could also work on further refining the concept behind the Switch and let the PCs be the high-end option.
You're forgetting that 3DS flopped, it wasn't a GameBoy.
Lost jobs don't mean lost productivity. AI is one thing, but also a lot of these industry veterans are getting shitcanned and replaced with pajeets and black women. The jobs aren't actually disappearing.
>may stop
>may exit
>jobs replaced with incompetent homosexuals for 1/4th the salary
yawn.
I've been reading about the downfall of PS since before the release of PS1. Two more weeks, right?
I've been reading about the downfall of Nintendo since the N64. One more week, right?
They got kicked out of the living room for the backseat of the car, that’s not a total downfall but they were chased out of the space they initially dominated.
And yet they persisted and found new ways to sell their videogame consoles, to the point that when Sony tried to replicate that feat, it was them that were eventually forced out, and then they managed to find a way to court home and handheld owners at the same time.
Does not change the fact that I still hear that Nintendo will fall and become a third party soon throughout the ages.
just look at the crap they're pumping out. it's really no surprise. nobody wants woke garbage made by feminists, or games as a service. it's their own fault really.
>Now it seems that Sony and Microsoft are the ones leaving the console race
Deluded tendie, PS5 will be one of the top 2 best selling consoles of all time
I don't care
It's funny because if not for Sony stealing all 3rd parties with PS1 and PS2 curbstomping GameCube, it's possible Nintendo wouldn't have invested in 1st party this hard and would still be trying to chase muh power leading to huge development costs that plague the rest of the industry
Games are better today than any other era. Stop coping you incels.
>Xbox can’t compete with ps
>that means ps is closing down too
Such a weird pc cope.
>after the Insomnaic hack exposed their budgets every Sony title in the last decade is on the "List of most expensive video games to develop"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_expensive_video_games_to_develop
>how the frick did Miles Morales cost $150 million USD to make
>every PS4/PS5 game is ported to PC eventually because the actual PS5 owners aren't buying enough of the game to make it worthwhile
>especially for licensed IP like Spider-Man and Wolverine where Disney gets a significant chunk of the revenue which makes that threshold even higher.
It's either Sony massively scales down their production into more diverse genre productions that need less money to make, which the people that actually buy their games don't care about, or they release them on PC rendering the point of a PS5 moot.
At this point even shit like Sony paying other publishers to not release on Switch/Xbox or ban game pass deals seems hilariously quaint.
>MUH CONSOLE WARS
Feels good being a PC gamer and not giving a frick about children shrieking to each other about toys.
>hire women who are obsessed at driving off men away
>they make a ad campaign with a drag queen on the beer can which drives men away
>billions of losses ensue
>company is too cucked to call it out
>repeats again in all other sectors of the economy
Will someone finally call it out? The fault is people that work to alienate their own customer base, you've seen this countless times yourself, they work to destroy their own brand.