you know those millions of atari games found at landfills
the same thing is literally happening with starfield, which got pulled out of all the stores for being shit and not selling
millions of copies are going to landfills
It'll be a very long time before anything gets as big as Sony or Xbox, new developers and publishers can't grandfather their way into relevance the way those two did and Xbox only got a foothold by shamelessly copying the Dreamcast + already being a massive international company
Honestly, true. The video game crash of 1983 only happened because a handful of companies controlled the market, and released a constant stream of dogshit games that only sold because they were either tied into a pre-existing popular IP, or because they were so generic that they appealed to as many people as possible and were thus more likely to be bought.
It's a really good thing it's not happening now. The industry would be toast for sure if it did.
Stable yes, Nintendo is indestructible, but they will not "save" games this time. The Switch is no NES, the people are different, tastes are different. Video games died to mobile if you ask me.
Nobody. The general public doesn't care about real video games anymore. Children are glued to their smartphones from the age of 3 and the "games" they play on there are good enough for them. There will never be another revolution in gaming where quality becomes the main driver of growth again like it was in the 80s and 90s.
Did you know that Nintendo saved gaming?
That's right if Nintendo haven't started selling video games in a market with no competitors we wouldn't have video games nowadays (it's impossible to make video games anywhere else)
The only "crash" is the death of physical since everyone likes digital more. Who the frick is going to go to target to buy starfield and still have to download a big chunk of the game, when they can stay home and download the whole thing?
It is but for different reason. Problem is inflation is killing revenue (no one can afford shit) while cost go up. The AAA model can’t survive. I’m sure a lot of games that sold 10 million were actually unprofitable. Solution will be smaller games with shorter development time.
There won't be a crash.
A crunch at best on the big devs because of AAA costs but there is always money to be made in the game space.
I don't know why everyone forgets that the "game crash" was centered around one fricking console producing company. Arcades were still around and PC games still existed.
There was pretty much one relevant console at the time is why people fixate on Atari. It's also why the NES was careful to look like a tape-deck of the time and not look like the Atari at all with a top cartridge loader, else we probably would have just gotten the Famicom in English if they weren't worried about having a visible cartridge loader.
People don't seem to understand that it can't happen again. It's not a small culture of nerds anymore. There is a normalgay mass that cannot be counteracted. They will keep the industry afloat.
no it's fricking not
you know those millions of atari games found at landfills
the same thing is literally happening with starfield, which got pulled out of all the stores for being shit and not selling
millions of copies are going to landfills
yeah those landfills must be full of download codes alright
if anything is in a landfill it's piles of those Wii Minis
There is a big difference between one company going under for terrible games and the entire industry "crashing".
Well big companies will crash. Indie Devs will live on
This is the end of AAA shit. Activision, EA, Microsoft, ubishit, all of them will fall apart
Then the indie devs become the new soulless AAA devs and the cycle repeats agian
It'll be a very long time before anything gets as big as Sony or Xbox, new developers and publishers can't grandfather their way into relevance the way those two did and Xbox only got a foothold by shamelessly copying the Dreamcast + already being a massive international company
to be fair, everything is going to crash
except food, energy, and the like
Honestly, true. The video game crash of 1983 only happened because a handful of companies controlled the market, and released a constant stream of dogshit games that only sold because they were either tied into a pre-existing popular IP, or because they were so generic that they appealed to as many people as possible and were thus more likely to be bought.
It's a really good thing it's not happening now. The industry would be toast for sure if it did.
how could video games crash of there's no video games?
that's exactly why it's crashing, as well as all the bullshit DEI
I fricking wish but instead of a crash, the stupid zoomers are mindlessly consuming the modern equivalents of Atari ET
who will it be the present day saviour?
Nintendo's not what it used to be in 83.
Well, they are way more stable than most other major game companies. So if anything they'll be unaffected.
Stable yes, Nintendo is indestructible, but they will not "save" games this time. The Switch is no NES, the people are different, tastes are different. Video games died to mobile if you ask me.
the "savior" will be companies realizing they shouldn't spend 400 million dollars on games that can't realistically hope to make that money back
Nintendo is way better than they were in 1982 moronic homosexual
Sure. Let's see how they will save gaming.
Nobody. The general public doesn't care about real video games anymore. Children are glued to their smartphones from the age of 3 and the "games" they play on there are good enough for them. There will never be another revolution in gaming where quality becomes the main driver of growth again like it was in the 80s and 90s.
japanese game development in general is very healthy at the moment, only western dev is collapsing
indies that emerge and eventually establish themselves as market-dominating companies
Did you know that Nintendo saved gaming?
That's right if Nintendo haven't started selling video games in a market with no competitors we wouldn't have video games nowadays (it's impossible to make video games anywhere else)
needs to happen faster
I fricking WISH.
This industry needed a fricking reset the moment the PS4 and Xbone came out.
>This industry needed a fricking reset the moment mobile gaming happened.
ftfy
The “crash” only happened in Amerilard land
The only "crash" is the death of physical since everyone likes digital more. Who the frick is going to go to target to buy starfield and still have to download a big chunk of the game, when they can stay home and download the whole thing?
>Everyone likes digital more
More like forced to adopt digital more, get used to not owning games.
>more like forced to adopt
No, people simply like digital more. They aren't being forced into it.
If only.
It is but for different reason. Problem is inflation is killing revenue (no one can afford shit) while cost go up. The AAA model can’t survive. I’m sure a lot of games that sold 10 million were actually unprofitable. Solution will be smaller games with shorter development time.
There won't be a crash.
A crunch at best on the big devs because of AAA costs but there is always money to be made in the game space.
I don't know why everyone forgets that the "game crash" was centered around one fricking console producing company. Arcades were still around and PC games still existed.
There was pretty much one relevant console at the time is why people fixate on Atari. It's also why the NES was careful to look like a tape-deck of the time and not look like the Atari at all with a top cartridge loader, else we probably would have just gotten the Famicom in English if they weren't worried about having a visible cartridge loader.
>pc games
>83
a stretch to be sure
People don't seem to understand that it can't happen again. It's not a small culture of nerds anymore. There is a normalgay mass that cannot be counteracted. They will keep the industry afloat.
the normalgay mass decided they fricking hated ET on atari and the outpouring tidal wave of crap that ET floated in on