>Rumors of Disney wanting that piece of the pie; heavily investing into gaming, looking to buy EA
This is where gaming goes downhill, isn't it?
Gaming nears $350 billion annual revenues, EA exec says
>Rumors of Disney wanting that piece of the pie; heavily investing into gaming, looking to buy EA
This is where gaming goes downhill, isn't it?
I can't remember the last game from EA I played
>I can't remember the last game from EA I played
I don't think I've played any ea games after mass effect 3, pretty crazy to think about.
I think for me it was mass effect 2 until I bought the remasters because frick origin
>until I bought the remasters because frick origin
I bought the trilogy for dirt cheap on steam years ago on a whim but never launched them just kept putting off replaying them & then eventually forgot I had them altogether. It didnt even occur to me that there'd be origin frickery, woops.
>It didnt even occur to me that there'd be origin frickery
yep, I'd say what is the point but what EA wanted for them was ridiculous. I believe it was like 2018-19 I thought about saying frick it but they wanted over 100 bucks for the whole shebang which I wasn't about to do. I felt some vindication waiting on ea to do the remasters since they were about the only big publisher that didn't jump on that bandwagon.
Their success comes from this, they don't cater to any regular fan anymore. They sell FIFA, NHL, whatever else to people who don't even know who EA is.
They only sell FIFA and NFL casino games now.
This, do they even still make video games anymore?
I would've played the Dead Space remake if they released it on PS4. Dead Space 2 probably would've been the last EA game I played.
MY DEAD GIRLFRIENDS EX-BOYFRIEND OH MY GOD NOOOOOO
I think they made some s*ar wars games but I didn't play them because frick D*sney.
For me it was C&C generals
a game that absolutely was a product of its time and would never release today
Last game from EA was BF 1 I think and before that Red Alert 3.
Titanfall. And I never forgave them and the studio for letting it crash and burn for Apex.
Titanfall 2 was the last one I played cause I got it for 5 bucks. Before that it was Alice Madness Returns in like 2011.
Mobile games aren't video games. They're gambling apps labeled as video games. EA can't tell the difference because EA
Yeah, none of these investors and business people can
they're flocking to 'gaming' but what they actually want is digital gambling
>goes
>implying it hasn't gone downhill already
Disney is the global elite
why doesn't disney buy nintendo?
Nintendo doesn't want to sell and the president said a few years back that they have measures in place to stop hostile takeovers.
Ultimately Nintendo is a publicly traded company and if a large enough company wanted to they could easily come in and do a hostile takeover. Whatever plans Nintendo has would deter other companies like Sony who are big relative to the market. But if a truly big behemoth megacorp would step it, it'd be over.
Unlike western countries Japan's government would not allow one of their "mascot brand" corporations to be bought by a foreign entity. They would block the sale.
Japan's government could step in if it was, say, a Chinese company (but so far they haven't and China has been buying up Japanese gaming companies like it's free real estate). Japan and America have trade agreements that allows for easier investment and company takeovers. If they suddenly tried to block that the American regulators would raise an eyebrow.
They (Japan) almost landed themselves in hot shit with the ABK x Microsoft acquisition since many American politicians started asking why a "Japanese" company was trying to block a trade deal between two American companies. That's around the time when Jim Ryan actually let go of the entire thing and stopped his campaign.
That's not how it works. You can only buy if someone is selling. If the number of shares for sale isn't enough to let you control the voting then you can't do anything about it. Some companies have a class of stock with supervoting rights held by the execs and never sold so that even if you bought every share of the traded class you wouldn't be able to change how the company is run. I don't know how Nintendo is set up, but it's absolutely possible to prevent buyouts as long as the leadership is resolved not to sell.
>350 billion
>barely a couple of good games per year, everything else trash
really make you think
Disney is bleeding money and they had to sell networks to being alive moron
it's funny how they sterilized everything and are now wondering where all the money is going. Sucks to suck, at least when disney dies copyright laws might be able to be returned to normal
Like 75% of the entire vidya GDP is from gacha phone games. Actual video game makers are doing shit. Games hardly ever come out anymore you get like 3-4 titles worth playing in an entire console generation now. You get the assassin creed , the far cry, *maybe* a Bethesda game, and thats essentially it anymore. These giant corporations that own the entire AAA space won't dare take a risk on anything else.
> These giant corporations that own the entire AAA space won't dare take a risk on anything else.
After Starflop it's going to be even worse.
>YOU HAVE LUCASARTS YOU FRICKING DIPS
Eiger's a fraud and built his executive cred buying other shit, the house flipping equivalent of CEO Boomer that thinks he's a financial wizard. It's a bridge too far and he's digging his professional grave.
The Sports titles are what keeps them going.
Because they're begging for being boughtout themselves
Fricking how? I used to spend hundreds on video games in a year and over the past couple combined I think I have spent like $50 in total. I can't be the only person completely disinterested in all the trash they put out now.
normies + micro transactions = big cummies
I guess I am really disconnected from what the average person spends money on. I was always baffled at microtransactions and refused to believe anyone actually paid for that shit.
It's pretty much children, women, boomers, and others too dumb or not evolved to understand how to spend resources wisely
I've bought Remnant2 and Wild Hearts for a $150 total, only because they had online with good action combat and rpg growth mechanics. Ive also spent $30 on OW2 battle passes so far.
Before this year, for a few years, it was $0. Last game before was MH Sunbreak.
Did you even read the article? Like 80% of these are mobile games.
And the majority of mobile games are free. If anything, in 10 years you can't even buy games anymore
20% of actual games is still more than the US' biggest sport:
So? Actually it's funny that the global PC+Console gaming industry is smaller than the US casino industry
death to boomers
>Actually it's funny that the global PC+Console gaming industry is smaller than the US casino industry
I love that poker, a game of skill, is banned all over the place but casinos & online gambling are being pushed everywhere.
Over the last year I've spent $32 on older games and $45 on a controller, that was with gift cards I won.
No new games seem that interesting and I pirate everything Nintendo.
You're not a customer they care about anymore. These games make more money in a single month than your favorite games made in their lifetime
homie we've been downhill.
Imagine if the video game market were to ever crash again. It would make 1983 look like a walk in the park by comparison lmao
only way it will crash is if some new hobby comes out, look at starfield. It's fricking garbage but still sold millions cause there is nothing else they can play.
>only way it will crash is if some new hobby comes out
I can definitely see the console market specifically crashing at some point.
There's gonna be a really bad recession coming in around 2024, so there's actually a good chance the markets will get fricked hard
Only if the democrats somehow fail to cheat properly and lose, then suddenly the economy will be worse than 1929.
Nothing that a war can't solve.
peepee poopoo pants no war for me!
>This is where gaming goes downhill, isn't it?
It's at the bottom of the hill. There's nowhere else lower to go.
Still have the 100 foot manhole to fall down.
gamers like to pretend gaming is still a niche hobby, when it's the biggest normie hobby that exists
Someone here will still defend them when I question why games are becoming $70.
They were that expensive here in canuckistan for years. It's why I stopped buying AAA games around 2016. There is absolutely no excuse for that shit, doubly so for digital purchases. Corporations will only do what people allow them to do, unfortunately there are too many moronic homosexuals funding nu gaming.
MUH INFLATION THOUGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! DOESN'T MATTER THAT WAGES HAVEN'T GONE UP MUH INFLATION
I've said it a million times and I'll say it again
Wages should be tied to gdp by law
If you can't pay those wages you should go out of business
And ban limited liability companies now and forever, it's a scam to avoid paying creditors when you tank the company and leave with a golden parachute
If GDP falls, should employees be expected to share the burden? If you believe in profit sharing, do you also believe in profit loss?
ok hasan
Pretty sure Hasan is in favor of profit sharing.
>And ban limited liability companies now and forever
Need some sort of lawsuit protection replacement in that case.
Yeah no shit, there are tons of laws that should be put in place to protect citizens of their respective countries but that won't ever happen. Most of us are living in countries with meme economies that are ran by literal criminals. If people actually woke the frick up and truly understood what is happening around them the governments of the world would be toppled. Unfortunately everyone is a dopamine addled freak and will continue living on processed slave rations in overpriced shithole apartments forever. Truly this timeline is fricking cursed.
>Unfortunately everyone is a dopamine addled freak and will continue living on processed slave rations in overpriced shithole apartments forever.
Dopamine aside this basically the default state of humanity since the dawn of civilization.
If you ignore the moronic meme language, the dopamine bit has been part of the package forever too. It's half of the bread and circus. Gambling, intoxicants, sex, etc. have been what keep populations content forever. Only the form has changed, never the substance.
Funny thing is that most corporations have limited liability, not just llcs. I honestly don't know why they call them that
*$100
You aussies get regularly fricked.
That's in burger coins mate. Looking at 200 dolleridoos starting for the standard editions by 2030.
id love to see more disney flops, maybe theyll finally fricking get a clue.
how much of that is traditional revenue and how much is gacha/mtx/mobile? unless we have a detailed breakdown this is less than a meaningless headline, it's a misleading one.
Well FIFA or whatever it is called now can't get any worse
Inb4 crash
ohh sure now Disney wants to make video games when in the paat they've been cautious about making video games, though with EA pumping their crap out and I see how they'd want a piece of that
>The global video game industry is a billion-dollar business and has been for many years. In 2022, the revenue from the worldwide gaming market was estimated at almost 347 billion U.S. dollars, with the mobile gaming market generating an estimated 248 billion U.S. dollars of the total.
mobile games generated 71% of total revenue
let that sink in
Annual NFL revenue 18.6 Billion
Annual USA casino revenue 60 Billion
Fricking gaming really is massive. It obliterates every other persons hobby combined.
VR must surely come soon with this type of money around.
why?
There's zero reason for them to make any vr games.
The only good, like actual good vr game that was ever made was Alyx, that was 3 years ago.
thats like saying there is zero reason to make cars when everybody is riding horses.
There is a reason, it just needs a big investment up front to open a massive new market. With the amount of money in gaming right now, they should be investing a chunk into the future.
movies and music?
Dead
>This is where gaming goes downhill, isn't it?
Like it hasn't already been for the past 10 years?
EA is worth a fifth of the Disney company. I guess they purchased Fox for twice as much as EA is currently worth but it would take a lot to be able to leverage themselves into a position to purchase EA, especially with their stock at a 10 year low.
my ex plays video games, she buys games for full price and plays them for a few hours and gets bored of them. She never finishes any game ever, she always buys outfits and boosts because she gets bored so fast so wants to see as much of the game as she can as quick as she can. The amount of fricking money she spends on ff14 is obscene, and she barely actually plays the game but just takes pictures of her characters in outfits.
People have no fricking idea how much money average people spend and how little interest they have in games in general. This is why games are going to shit.
Now remove the mobile gaming revenue.
How insane Disney's management is:
>buy respected game dev
>cancel all projects and fire everyone
>license property to EA
>suddenly wants to buy EA
You forgot
>EA does frick all with the property.
If not for Jedi Survivor, all of their Star Wars games would've been flops.
Worse than frick all: do something so controversial and reviled that it gets on the mainstream news as "gambling for children".
Don't care honestly. Indie scene only gets better each year. These giant companies has barely anything to offer.
Indie produces art the same rate as AAA. What a joke. The real savior is emulation.
that's where all the money comes from, not from boxed sales.
you know that the revenue is high because they keep showing more microtransaction right? Why would they stop?
>This is where gaming goes downhill, isn't it?
You can leave at anytime.
Oh no, Disney will turn EA into a soulless corporate husk nickle and dim-wait a minute
I have such a lengthy backlog split over my Switch, PS5, PC and older consoles/handhelds that I don’t even care that games are either $70 + tip or a monthly rental from Gameslop, if I see a game I like the look of I wait for the inevitable deep sale
who is buying all these games? and more specifically why the frick are people buying them day one on release?
>Disney
>Buying any company
This is such a moronic rumour. Disney has the forced Hulu buyout next year, which is estimated to be around 20 billion dollars - and they absolutely don't have the money for that.
Companies have the obligation to make the most money possible. Maybe ask people to stop buying loot boxes.
Anyway I pirate everything and microtransaction has never been a problem for me. This year has so many good games without any microtransaction that I don't know what you people are playing to complain so much
videogaming hasnt been a niche hobby for over 20 years moron.
Gaming is varied enough an industry it probably won't crash short of a zombie apocalypse. It just won't necessarily be the markets you care about that survive. If I were to make a tierlist of easiest to crash gaming markets right now
>VR (not enough talent, a few hiccups can kill it)
>f2p console gaming (much more expensive than f2p mobile, very few new hits year by year)
>traditional premium gaming (not the most profitable but historically very resilient)
>f2p mobile gaming (cost/benefit is insane if you are purely crunching numbers. may be less room for indies as time goes on)
games suck and gaming is a stagnant industry. All I want is fully immersive simulated reality to have a harem of sexy women in.
Oh no poor EA and nu bioware
>revenues
irrelevant meme word