>https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2022-07-15-games-spending-down-10-percent-to-usd26-3bn-in-h1-2022-us-monthly-charts
>US consumer spending decreased 11% to $4.3 billion this June 2022 compared to the same period last year
>Overall, spending for the first half of 2022 reached $26.3 billion, a 10% drop year-on-year
How do you feel about the video game industry crashing?
line must go up
it's great
it will cull all the garbage games and make it easier to find the better ones except for mmos and cash grab mobile games
In this inflation, no one has the money to spend $70 on jap crap, get real
it will probably crash in the upcoming crisis
It's been coming for a long time.
Entire Western industry is just dogshit made by woke activists. No one cares for the west anymore, it's why Japanese games recently have been doing so well. But they've recently started to get hit by all this pozzed shit since the woke shit won't sell in the west.
Good. Can't happen soon enough.
Oh wow, down 10%, after record level increases in 2020 and 2021 that more than tripled what it was previously
it's more about how game publishers already accounted for that 10% and it might throw them under their arbitrary profit lines at which they pull the plug
It's literally due to the lapse in productivity via the global shutdown of the economy due to covid, There's not many games coming out and the ones that are, aren't that great combined with the fact that home entertainment was one of the industries which saw a boom; as everyone was stuck in lockdown thus had more of a reason to spend money on video games.
>>US consumer spending
Good. America should be less influential in the videogames industry.
At least until you people start making better games.
It should've happened naturally about 10 years ago already.
god I hate it when people keep saying "the video game industry will crash". The crash happened when there was literally ZERO dollars going into gaming, not when there was slightly less billions than before
It made 26 billion dollars in half a year.
They'll be fine
>floods the market with bottom of the barrel games burying whatever hidden gems exist under half a ton of shit
Nah, 1983 was a hoax
>MV
I'm honestly not sure if I should hate MV because it's a fricked up chromium mess, or if I should like it because all MV games run natively on Linux because the framework itself has a native port even if the devs never bothered with it.
But tons of rpgmaker games are themselves gems.
Give me a at least a 5 to 10 years spending statistic to make a projection. This year over years shit is so stupid and useless.
This and especially worthless since even video game companies will admit shit was turbocharged by the pandemic and are normalizing now.
, spending for the first half of 2022 reached $26.3 billion, a 10% drop year-on-year
Not surprising since there's only been 2 or 3 actual game releases this year so far.
That and no one has a PS5 to spend microtransactions on.
The market surged in 2020 and 2021. Coronavirus is over now, things are returning to normal.