>6,000 jobs lost at last count since november
>ubisoft cancelled seven games and "restructuring"
>volition gone
>epic games laid off 16% of company
>bungie lays off 100, revenue down 40%
>sega layoffs and the total war franchise fiasco
>twitch layoffs as part of Amazon to lay off 9,000
>unity engine shitstorm
please tell me these are the signs of a huge reset for the industry. i want this shit to crash and for woke normies to frick off.
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good riddance. triple-A can collapse and rebuild anew
It'll never happen. The industry is too diverse and spread out.
GUT THE WOKE
Now we know when the woke get broke, they get BROKE
>Now we know when the woke get broke, they get BROKE
yeah and when the politically "woke" guys go to bed they are woke by their landlord saying their lease is "broke" due to not paying rent lol
the u.s. government literally just prints money and gives it directly to larry fink. the guy could lose trillions and it wouldn't fricking matter a single iota.
just capitalism things
technically the videogame industry has been crashing since about late 2012, we've entered rock bottom territory
They should try a new strategy. Like making good games. I know it's crazy but it may just work.
I think we should hire more employees that openly say they hate our products
And our customers too, cant forget them.
Nah, they just need more sassy interns to ruin brand reputation by shitting on fans on Twitter, that's what'll get them back in the black.
now now, none of that crazy talk on here
That pic is so cool, I wish I was a giant boss making employees leave their place of work.
not my problem
>please tell me these are the signs of a huge reset for the industry
It is, in fact, it's the entire western industry crashing and burning. I'm hoping entertainment in the west goes back to normal again, this will be a page in the history books about how 2015 to late 2020s had an era of political correctness and shit.
it's insane how much donald trump triggered the lunatic liberals.
It's still incredibly bloated. Modern releases prove that hiring more people doesn't mean a better product.
Only Nintendo will survive.
>Sony is moving their gaming department and is giving the PS5 a slow death, Sony will sell off all of it's gaming IPs at piecemeal and will be reserved on mobile gacha games as Fate Grand Order makes more money in a month then all of PlayStation makes in a year.
>Microsoft is becoming more and more third party by the day.
imo it's gonna be a sega situation again. the stakes are really high for both of them, and whoever manages to stay afloat for loger will keep doing business in the market while the other will go down, maybe even more so than sega even did. xbox may simply fail definitively, but there's a chance playstation will implode on it's management
nintendo is going to stay the same gimmick console producer, more focused on games than hardware, so there's simply no way we won't be left with higher end consoles by the next decade (unless nintendo sneakily deals the final blow with an actual balls to the wall powerful switch successor but i doubt it)
what i really think is going to be interesting is whether or not any other company will try to get in the market, like apple or amazon. i really don't want that to be fair.
Did they try making more generic ai generated content where the only human inputted content is troony-core?
Triple A companies are just going back to pre 2009 staffing levels, they've been bloated ever since. Anyone who seriously thinks a video game market crash can happen is a moron.
The market is already crashed, there are no new games being made
Sony's recent handling of PlayStation says otherwise.
>Xbox as a console on its last legs
>industry crash isnt a thing that can happen chud
Trannies will convince themselves anything
>its as bad as it'll be
it can always get worse anon
Finally gaming is healing
It has nothing to do with the industry. Look at the financial state of the world. Everything's going to shit for everyone other than banks.
game developers are in dire financial straights because they don't make games anymore
I don't see it recovering, the well has been poisoned with awful business practices and its too lucrative to chase easy money and make mobile/gacha shit even with all these failures and layoffs. They will drive themselves into the ground and continue these awful practices no matter what the cost and losses are.
Tech has changed to much for things to return to the way they once were. Games have to completely crash as a form of entertainment and struggle to market themselves to anyone outside of a niche audience.
There won't be a crash for a very simple reason: there is a demand for videogames.
>normies to frick off
Not happening. Videogames pretty much became one of the main entertainment industries, on par or even above TV and above movies.
The only way videogames can become niche again is if another hobby or entertainment medium replaced or eclipsed them.
You said that in the early 80s and look what happened.
At that time the videogame industry was on its infancy and the landscape was completely different from today.
The industry as a whole isn't going to crash, demand for video games will continue to exist and not every single publisher and developer is doing the moronic shit those other companies are guilty of. The AAA market was the one unsustainable and now we're merely seeing those corporations see the results of their actions.
>hire to fill quotas
>disaster
Hire only white males.They are responsible for the great societies of the world.
>launch shit games
>shit games don't sell
>oops
ok
Good. I hate videogames.
You forgot
>Timesplitters 4 canceled and Free Radical gone
This is just companies in general culling a portion of the mass hirings they did during covid. I know it was a few years ago but most of them went on hiring sprees during that time to account for working from home, if you don't remember.
god i fricking hope so
serves em fricking right for trying to forcibly brainwash us into loving trannies and women and Black folk. i hope they all fricking crash and burn. violently.
Oh no, thousands of useless HR and QA employees have been culled, gaming is dead for sure.