There’s been a lot of talk recently about how the console business isn’t growing. That roughly the same number of people are playing them now as they have since the days of the PlayStation 2, with the actual peak being in the Wii era. But then there’s a lot of talk about many things lately, with the entire video games industry turning itself upside down as if at some unseen signal (okay, it was probably Christmas hardware sales).
I don’t know what’s going on and I think the problem is neither do publishers. Although I can’t imagine that all this happening just months after Xbox’s purchase of Activision Blizzard is a coincidence. Many said it would unbalance the whole games industry and that seems to be exactly what’s happening
really cause every game feels like its made for babies and morons
Well, people get more stupid the more they get older. And diapies
Maybe new kids have came in but some older people quit gaming because a lot of modern games are shit?
I've just been playing older games, I think I only purchased Hogwarts Legacy in 2023.
Zoomers and alphas are used to everything being an app and accessing everything through their phones. A few zoomers have PCs thanks to streamer culture, but I doubt alphas will use them.
Zoomers just jerk off all day and form parasocial relationships with people on youtube, twitch, etc.
They engage with games through others through "cultural osmosis," but they themselves see games in much the same way we saw bowling when we were kids. "That looks fun. My dad loves bowling. I can see why, but it's too much work for me. Back to jerking off and waiting for death."
Then what do the younguns' do for fun these days?
Scroll on their phones
I'd say Tiktok, but not only is that probably not "fun" for them as much as it is addiction, they probably don't even use TikTok much and are all using some new app or game or something that the "old" people like the zoomers aren't all on.
literally TikTok and Instagram, i cant tell you how many zoomers i know that mindlessly scroll that stuff.
i personally dont get it, but they are okay to watch on the crapper i guess.
Partly why they're in vr. You can scroll bigscreen insta and tik tok with full visual privacy
watch others play video games
I've started to do this but mainly due to fed brain frickery. Are glowies remote brain frickery zoomers with tik tok as the cover?
Ipads, tiktok, alexa, bobs burgers, the ireland boys, SML jeffrey the puppet, iPad games
Roblox on their tablets while youtube plays on their phone. I'm not even kidding, I've got a nephew who's like eight and this is what he does every time he comes over.
Demographics.
The percentage of the population in "gaming age" is smaller than it was twenty years ago (about when the Wii launched). Gaming hasn't changed, you've changed. It was always spoon-fed "challenges," shallow narratives, and bursting with cliche. The demographic that appeals too, however, has shrunk.
I'm not reading all that.
>Reader's Feature
Good idea, it's just one rando's rant.
They're in vr. And since the mainstream industry didn't just sleep on vr but tried to pretend it didn't exist, they have zero brand recognition with the young crowd. And that's a good thing since aaa is hell bent on dying on the Trans hill. Vr is like a breakaway gaming civilization from early 2000s
im old and i dont buy games anymore because theyre all shit now
This but I just play the same old multiplayer games over and over and the only new games I buy are indie games
t..35 year old boomer
me too anon. I'm glad Divers came out when it did, I needed a reason to go back to 4 player co op games. God I miss l4d2
>old people
they mean women
They keep remaking the same old games and refuse to make new games in that style. What do you think the problem is?
>Is it old? Remaster!
>Is it new? Add DLC and tutorials!
not to mention the culture shit.
of you will talked a look at game industry profit pie you will see how mobile gaming grows like a weed.
It turns out you can only dumb things down so much until you've capped out on the lowest common denominator.
We can't frag n00bs like we used to, but we have our ways. One trick is to play matches that don't go anywhere, like the time I joined a 24/7 16k 32vs32 no AWP dust2 server in the community browser, which was how you joined matches in those days. I had replaced all the player skins with Touhou and Vocaloid characters, which was the style at the time. Now to buy guns AND ammunition you had to spend money. "!MONEY" for $16000 you'd say, otherwise you'd be playing catchup with a USP and a knife and no armor while everybody was running around with M4s and AKs.
Now where we? Oh yeah, the important thing was that I had installed anime girl decal mods on my guns, which was the style at the time. They didn't have in-game weapon skins cause of hostility to microtransactions. The only thing you could do was download mods off gamebanana...
I still play civ 5 and are now also doing a good old campaign playthrough of starcraft 1.
I swear, these headlines must be made by an algorhytm. It's always the same pattern: "X is [insert something stupid] and that's Y"
Zoomers pay streamers to play video games and donate $50 to get their name said on the stream. It's a completely baffling parasocial "relationship" that's fermented in the zoomer generation who desperately want to have friends so they pay some random creeps on the internet to play pretend.