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Let it crash. We've got retro.

It's the end of the AAA gaming industry as we know it, and i feel fine.

Making unfinished games and making people pay more for adding characters and extra stages later is one of the problems

Somehow, some way, history looks like it's repeating itself. In my opinion, most people will go back to their games that don't have strangleholds with live service or always online attached to them.

Considering we're being slapped in the face with "the message" with a lot of games now I wouldn't be surprised

“Hey SEGA! Great opportunity for you to make an epic comeback/takeover!”

I hope we are cause Gaming needs a dire Reset

When the crash does come, I will welcome it with open arms. Forced DEI, the agenda, *drinker’s voice THE MESSAGE* , Sweet Baby Inc, gaming devs lashing out on fans when the game doesn’t do well, censorship, poor gaming quality, micro transactions etc. The video game crash NEEDS to happen

I’m 45 and just my backlog alone can keep me occupied the rest of my life. Not including games I play every year. I have a few I play every fall/halloween. I’d be good

ABSOLUTELY WE ARE. The video game crash of 1983 (known in Japan as the Atari shock) was a large-scale recession in the video game industry that occurred from 1983 to 1985, primarily in the United States. The crash was attributed to several factors, including market saturation in the number of video game consoles and available games, many of which were of poor quality. Now we are bombarded by games of questionable quality, cheating microtransactions and straight up clickbait targeting our PC, consoles and even our smartphones. I'm glad you made this topic because I considered this situation years ago but never went anywhere with it.

At 50 years old I am mostly focused on building my retro library and rom collections for emulation. It doesnt stop me from buying carts and discs as I want to own my games physically. Online gaming , gaming services, in game purchases will never be something I will be involved with so my days of modern gaming are quickly coming to an end. My son, 20, just isn't finding all that many new games he is interested in. He has been replayi ng the "souls" games as well as Bloodbourne.

We are in a "CEOs and shareholders greed are ruining the thing we love"

Corporate greed is creating a new video game crash, just like before. And the indie games will rise, like Activision with Atari. Now they are the corporate xd

Yes, we are. The first crash happened because of the market was flooded with terrible games. What is happening now? Our market is flooded with terrible games. Crash incoming.

Old Snake: Microtransactions!

I think we are in a videogame that is crashing.

This isn't like the first video game crash that happened in 1983 (granted, I will argue it's really 1984 since 1984 is when the general public actually saw the destruction and companies officially folded, but I digress) but this is more similar to the SECOND video game crash (the one a lot of people forget about). The second video game crash happened during early to mid 1996. A lot of people overlook it because the original Playstation (which made it's worldwide debut outside of Japan during September 1995) was a huge hit during early 1996, but everyone else was having a crash of some sort during early 1996. Atari went out of business because of the Atari Jaguar and discontinued the Jaguar, the 3DO got discontinued, the CD-i got discontinued almost worldwide by 1996 (it was still "alive" in the Netherlands beyond 1996, but barely). the Sega 32X was discontinued while it became clear that the Sega Saturn was in huge trouble due to the Playstation drastically outselling it during holiday season 95, the Nintendo Virtual Boy was declared a massive bomb by early 96 when holiday season 95 sales were revealed and Virtual Boy was discontinued by mid 96, the Neo Geo CD was DOA when it arrived in North America during early 1996, etc. For this THIRD video game crash of 2024 (most likely during 2025 or early 2026 when we see the results) 1) Xbox will die (it's already having problems, but it will get worse and the brand will die) 2) PS VR 2 will die (it's already having problems, but it's going to get much worse) 3) the rest of the VR market like Quest will die (and I LOVE VR, but it's severely expensive for most people) 4) Playstation 5 and Switch 2 will survive (Playstation 5 survives because it gets a monopoly on HD consoles due to the death of Xbox and Switch 2 survives because Nintendo has it's own corner of the market unique to them), but A LOT of second party studios and MANY third parties will die (Ubisoft will most likely be the first to die, followed by many others). 5) Somehow, Evercade will still survive, but will remain in it's own little niche corner. So not like the crash of 1983 (arguably really 1984), but more like the 1996 crash (the second crash). On a side note, some people will point to all of those Pong clone consoles plummeting to their doom (around the 1977 launch of the Atari VCS / 2600) as a crash, but I argue that was NOT a crash, it was more of a natural evolution from Pong clone consoles to cartridge based consoles like Atari 2600, Magnavox Odyssey 2, even failed ones like Fairchild Channel F, etc. Okay, that's my essay writing of the day. LOL.

Nintendo reminds me of Assyria after the Bronze Age Collapse; they also seem to be the strongest power in the aftermath and in prime position to expand.

Not me personally, I just play retro games 🐢

Wasn't everyone cheering when MS started buying publishers? What happened to the cheers? Oh are they realizing MS doesn't give a hoot about what players want, they just care about revenue? Awesome

As mostly an indie and retro gamer, I'm not too worried

The problem is that if gaming crashes it'll be the smaller development studios and publishers that disappear. It won't be the monster publishers like Ubisoft, EA, Activision/Blizzard and so on that will go away. The biggest problem with modern gaming is gamers putting up with horrible practices like DLC on disc, loot boxes/pay to win and paying for online play that has emboldened these companies to push them even more to the point where companies like Take Two even have their own monthly fee based subscription (GTA +). To put it succinctly, gamers screwed gamers by continuing to support these tactics by these companies.

"The Roman Empire Fell to Gothic Titties" - Lady Decade, MAY 2024

I hope so to be honest. Video Games feel so much more soulless as time goes by. They are vessels for mere money, profits and cash grabs these days. Back in the 90's and pre 2010's they felt like love and passion were still being poured into them. Maybe just maybe if a crash happens they'd learn their lessons. Then in a few years maybe 5 there will be a reassurance of video games again full of heart and passion like that which modern indie devs are putting into their games.

Nintendo still hasn’t revealed its plans after August, let alone their Switch successor that they just confirmed is officially coming a few days ago.

Imagine making games that people enjoy playing, that simply have a reasonable budget. Literally no one asked for A list Hollywood actors to do VA work for video games, or professional models to do modeling work. We were fine with the studio devs doing those jobs. Was it cheesy? Yes. but THE GAMES WERE FUN.

Modern gaming have become a big money making scheme. This is a shame because when I grew up the games I owned was made to entertain the player with great stories, fun gameplay and the games was not rushed to meet a deadline that was impossible to meet in the first place. This became a issue very quickly when almost every console and pc got access to a internet connection because developers decided to finish their projects after release via patches and many games was unforunately abandoned while being unfinished if that cash flow dried up. The main objective of almost every aaa game the last few years is making the most money for as little effort as possible. This is achieved by selling skins, dances, battle passes, gambling and dlc packs and it's become so bad that some games actually have dlc packs on launch day which means the developers intentionally locked out the content. I do enjoy some multiplayer games but the recent Playstation exclusives that have been ported to pc really appeal to me. No microtransactions everywhere in those games and they provide long stories with many sidequests and the games are usually very well optimized with no gamebreaking bugs that I have encountered. Nintendo also make amazing games in my opinion the Legend Of Zelda games on Nintendo Switch are both among the best games I have ever played. I feel like they still care about the games they make and that they actually are a passion project instead of a means to grab a quick buck. I am not surprised that we may be heading towards a video game crash.

If you limit yourself to only AAA games then yes. Between conditioning users to prefer live service and free to play games, micro-transactions and dlc, and basing purchases around digital storefront sales what we’re seeing right now is the direction AAA has always been going in. And like the North American Crash of ‘83 companies are going all in on the popular trends, replace quickly made knock offs of popular games with mobile and live service games. However there are two key differences: one is AAA being no longer the only game in town and the second is that folks are more educated now than us Americans back in the 80’s were in this hobby. The Internet and cheap development tools like Game Maker Studio, Unity, and Unreal have made indie studios a viable alternative. I think we’re at the start of a new Indie Renaissance and that the corporate world is going to experience a culling. Games like Sea of Stars and Chain Echoes are just the beginning.

Just like 1983, it's self-inflicted by the companies releasing video games.

They just don’t come up with good ideas anymore. I feel like we need a 70s 80s run. There was a lot of good ideas that haven’t been touched yet

My great nephew showed me a PS5 that was "Digital Only" I nearly vomited.

My boys and I have been speaking about this for some time and you cover it masterfully! Another great video. Thank you!

I’m glad my parents never got rid of my old consoles and games. I recently went to my dads and dug up my old stuff and cleaned it up and took all my old gaming stuff along with my old VHS tapes. I’m currently in the process of making my guest room into a straight up gaming/entertainment room.

I'm retired from modern gaming and everytime i see stories about gaming lately, i'm HAPPY to remain as such. On another note, anyone else spotted the Sega Genesis action figures lately? Altered Beast and Streets of Rage figures are something i did NOT expect to see on modern store shelves. Whoa.

Well not just video games....

I just know that I only buy retro games because that's the best gaming era (precisely up until the first years of the third millennium)

I don’t think this is a crash… for indie and AA games anyways. I think that what is happening is that the AAA gaming part of the industry is collapsing in on itself, and all of the smart gamers aren’t buying what they sell anymore. People are learning not to trust these companies anymore because we’ve been burned too many times by these big corporations. People are tired of bad practices. You can only expect these kinds of tactics to work so many times before even the most diehard of fans give up.

I feel you're right I caught myself playing older games I missed out on when I was younger vs the new games that are coming out now older games had everything instead of dlc pack after dlc pack

Since a few years ago I got into 'dungeon crawl' boardgames ... often spending 200 to sometimes even around 800 for all in. Yet I can hardly name a single new vid game I bought and/or played last 2 years. I've mostly been working on my backlog, like DQ11. Except some retro games on my Vita, which I revived recently. I'm looking more forward to have all my old consoles connected again and rdy for streaming than any new release .. par maybe Metroid 4, but never finished the 2nd and hardly played the 3rd...

I feel so sorry for all the people who have lost there jobs, it's crazy that given how much money the video games industry earns they still attempt to justify lay offs. Having said that I hope the video games industry does crash. Greed has taken over and all the people at the top really have benefited from this. We should have seen the warnings when "micro transactions" became a thing. We didn't and now it has gone too far in my view.

I like the older video games because I can pop one in and play.

What Microsoft, Embracer and EA have been doing recently with all the studio shutdowns and mass staff layoffs makes another video game crash like in 1983 more and more likely to happen again.

Creativity in videos games started to die in 2005 when the ps3/360 generation started i think. less and less people take risks, and try to make unique experiences. when a popular game is created. other companies will just try to make clones of that. happened with call of duty, gears of war and halo. i'm glad indie game developers have gotten more common in recent years. we need them to bring back the passion ,the fun and the diversity of games. that bigger studios have forgotten or won't take the chance on.

From my perspective, you're correct, but also analyze how the first crash was also affected by economics. 1977 brought about a revolution in gaming with the Atari VCS (later known as the 2600), because it had brought the idea of video games to the home, and later served as an alternative to going to the arcade. Regrettably, at the same time came the electronics revolution as computers were no longer the giant hulking, tape playing machines, where they began in offices, and would later be made available for homes thanks to the Commodore 64 and Atari 400 making the scenes. Though a bit more expensive than consoles, the early PCs, where every electronics company was putting out there own, was more economical than consoles, since one could do more than just play games, you could program, word process, save data, as well doing other tasks. Because of this, gaming companies attempted competing with the home computer, by attempting to modify their systems into makeshift computers. With only the Colecovision ADAM actually succeeding, the crash hit because about that time when Apple came onto the scene, people were no longer purchasing cartridge games, but instead computer games which were cheaper and readily available, also before anti-piracy came into existence, people could share computer games with one another. We know this thanks to your episodes showing the Nintendo Advanced System which had a keyboard and save devices, as well as how the Famicom itself once had a disk drive and keyboard, since Nintendo and Sega used the computer craze to help revive the industry. In fact, the Xbox itself was designed for PC gamers who did not want to trick out their system just to play a game, and was the first to have an actual hard drive. But I digress, I suspect the next crash will be imminent, but ironically, feel the Big N may survive with their upcoming next Switch.

Yeah the best days are gone but I’m so grateful to have been around to experience the exciting leaps forward like when the PS1 arrived and we’d all lose our minds trying to imagine what the possibilities were. Gaming went from being marketed as a kid’s toy to now Wipeout games having a clubbing vibe, Tomb Raider games having sex appeal, and Resident Evil showing everyday people that gaming can be scary. Gaming publications like OPSM and Edge were genuinely enthusiastic too and it came across in their writing. Tribalism, narcissism, bitterness , and corporate sleaze was a long way off. Affluence tends to invite lethargy and that’s what we’re seeing all across western art and culture in general.

honestly this is makes the most sense on what is going on with these Companies especially after XBox's recent announcement, as a Shareholder myself (not of XBox or any gaming company) I for one worry more about the long term profits to be had than any short term income, as this plays to the Shareholders who intend to sell their shares as soon as they think it is profitable to do so, so for companies to pander to the temporary shareholders like this means they in the upper seats probably have a vested short term interest themselves (often leading to insider trading ??) my point is, long term efforts pay off far better than short term gold digging of companies and all I see in the Gaming Industry right now is what you highlighted, companies who got a massive boost from the Pandemic and now seem to think they can keep that going in a market that cannot carry or afford their delusional desires the Companies are in need a leadership change who understand that more costs to consumers in a depleting market means less profits here and now, so they axe studios who were bought up to make money, and by axing them then can no longer make that money, and also axing the companies means not selling the studios so no cash boost there either. I am sure there are more qualified people who know much more than I do about this, but this is what I see from my own experiences as a shareholder, as a gamer who loves games and has played since the days before Commodore Computers, (yep I am that old) modern games studio are being pushed into making what is essentially gambling software, user pays in and gets minimal returns. I am just glad there are a backlog of Solo Player games in my collection I have not played yet, so I should be able to weather the coming storm that will probably kill many of the major gaming corporations. and sadly take some of the oldest and best studios with them.

I agree with your analogy. The only thing gaming wise I spend money on consistently anymore is my Final Fantasy XIV subscription. That's literally my entertainment budget each month. I just don't feel like spending a bunch of money on video games.

You're absolutely correct. Corporate greed ruins stuff we love, again. I bought a PS5 because I felt I needed to, but have not purchased one game for it! I'm happy with my PS+ stuff. Honestly,, everything is a rehash of stuff I played years ago. I am however, having a blast playing retro games on my mini PC and TV. Original ideas, no micro-transactions, no endless updates or 10GB+ first day fixes.

I hope so. We need quality games again

When companies representatives believe that providing their customers products that they know the customers want is lower on their list of priorities than accepting the hundred dollar dear to hit themselves in the balls from a man in the back alley behind their company headquarters, you know the industry is screwed.

I'm a lifelong gamer that hasn't even bothered to buy a new gen console yet. Still on PS4, and enjoying a crazy backlog of games on my retro systems with some Everdrives and old used gamecube discs. So yea, I'd say the industry has failed to convince me that I need any brand new games at all.

I think you need a Video Game Boom, Before you can have a Crash.

Poor QUALITY control. Barf inducing DEI! Leave politics out of games!

They REFUSE to give the customers what they want. They make a product, and then tell us to buy it and when they say “buy” they mean rent.

As a gamer myself. I can say I've only played about 10 games in the past 12 months and I think I've only bought one as two of them are online battle pass games and the rest I just previously owned. I'm just not head turned by new games as much as I was.

Loved all your insights! It's definitely dark times for the video game industry

I tuned in expecting to just get an opinion about the video game decline, and ended up getting a very well constructed history lesson going back 2,000 years! Well done!

A well reasoned video. Nicely explained. If I wasn't already subbed I'd sub again. !!

Another brilliant video. Thank you for your insight.

I have to choose carefully between a new triple A game or eating. So I often pass on assasin creed or final fantasy games that I remember having already played.

It's important to know that if video game release crap in our hand the RPG table top still exist. It's cool, funny a good social interaction and the GM and player can decide for themselves about the dei

Imagine another industry so tethered to a reliance on evermore expensive shiny technology. There’s fundamentally no difference in gameplay from any Xbox or from a PS2 to a PS5, only shinier more expensive hardware. If people weren’t compelled by developers/publishers to spend exorbitant amounts of money on a new GPU every few years, they might actually have to develop a real business model. Developers who came up during the arcade era had a much stronger understanding of what made an engaging core game loop. Hopefully this crash will we don’t all of those who were never fans and had no passion for the hobby as the veterans of old always had.

I was under the impression that the ‘83 Crash was basically an 🇺🇸 incident. This potential crash is world wide mainly because prior to the success of the NES in the 🇺🇸, the steady increase of video game consoles being produced in 🇯🇵 and maintenance of computer games in Europe. Video games were a niche market and not a legitimate industry.

Here from asmond. Great video!

U forgot to mention that my VR headset was just bricked in an update by microsoft that took away Windows Mixed Reality.

Foamstars is dead two months after it's free to play release, and now I have to wait half an hour to find a match. This a Square Enix game, I should have led with that.

AAA publishers have crossed the "cunt event horizon" where it's only profitable to release worse, and worse products, at higher prices, with more and more insidious microtransactions, uglier and uglier models, and DEI peppered everywhere. They've had their day in the sun and can only decline. Meanwhile, independent gaming studios are in ascendance as people realise that games made with love, by un-hamstrung developers are way more fun; The endlessly, overproduced, expensive cinematics, high price voice actors and vast open worlds are not needed. Fun mechanics, likeable characters and good stories are all that's required, and with todays game creation tools, a small studio, or even a dedicated single developer can create something wonderful. AAA games with preachy characters, potato-faced models and awkwardly crammed-in DEI cringe, that are lousy with microtransaction, unfinished content, buggy content and never deliverd content has, somehow, lost it's appeal. It's almost as if gamers are human beings who don't appreciate being treated like cattle to be milked dry.

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I do think what’s happening in gaming is also the same as what’s happening with film and streaming currently. People don’t want ridiculously expensive games, nor do we want mandatory subscription or payment-based add-on services. We also don’t want the same old games with the same old engines again and again and again. We want cheaper, (or at the very least) longer lasting, innovative, exciting games that build upon what came before. Players want greater variety, and ability to connect with friends, with more access to historical libraries that don’t mean emptying the bank. Players don’t want their save data tied to one console or profile, and we want higher visibility of different genres. Players also don’t want characters or storylines to pander to audiences in an unnatural way, (see Suicide Squad: KtJL), and every game becoming an open world online-only experience. Lastly, we can’t afford the prices. Sonic Superstars, for example, was a £34.99 game at most, not a £54:99 one. Gaming needs to be affordable, fun, and novel. It’s the reason why retro and indie games continue to surge in popularity, whereas AAA (lol at the name) titles are starting to struggle.

The only things corporations are good for is ripping people off and then bragging about it on earnings calls, or bitching that people have wised up to their bullshit because they aren’t making enough on earnings calls. As it pertains to the gaming industry, two of the big three are determined to make buying into their platforms pointless. Smart idea. They’ll bitch about that too, when the time comes.

There's never any shortage of amazing indie games. There's such an unreal backlog of older great games too. People shoukd just move their purchasing away from these player hating companies, and start supporting companies and individual game developers that actually respect the gamer culture as a whole.

Love the variety of directions content wise.

To me, this seems like the natural result of gaming companies being in business for shareholders rather than for gaming itself. My backlog is grateful. It's finally getting attention.

Very, very interesting take on how each of these issues (invasion/war, plague, ecomical strife) follow a predictable pattern that leads to a societal/empire crash. Whether it's the gaming industry or our own bloated and corrupted goverments its undeniable that there is a downward snowball effect occurring. History has shown time and time again that great industries and civilizations crumble from the inside before their collapse from an outside force. Just like a might oak standing for decades in someone's backyard, looking strong and healthy, but being slowly destroyed from the inside by terminates, then during a storm it suddenly crash down on to their home to the shock and dismay of owner and their neighbors. The gaming industry fell back in 1983, not due to a failing economy, plague, or wars, though but due to the corrupted and greedy corporations and developers, who pushed harder and harder to crank out new games faster and faster, while taking resources from their Q/A departments, if they even had any, all the while spendng crazy amounts of their money on advertizments of their next blockbuster. Sounds familiar, doesn't it? It is written in 1 Timothy 6:10 "For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows." One doesn't have to follow Christianity or any religion to be able to see how accurate this phrase is in the gaming industry or most of the failing industries/governments/organizations throughout the world.

In fall of 2017 I finally bought a PlayStation 3, because I could finally afford it. I only bought three games for it. The Final Fantasy XIII series. While I was stuck at home with a broken ankle I managed to complete all three games. I had been wanting to play Final Fantasy XIII since it's original release but the console and game was out of my price range. Since I couldn't play Pokemon Go because I was in a wheelchair. I finally got to play All three Final Fantasy XIII games. I still have the PlayStation 3 and use it as a DVD player. Those are the only three games I bought for the console. I still have those games too. Growing up with the Atarii then Nintendo and then the Game Boy. Then the Super Nintendo and Sega. Then the Game Boy color and PlayStation. After that the Nintendo 64 which is probably my favorite. I had the Sega CD and Dream Cast as well. I also bought the Game Boy Advance. When I heard about the PlayStation 2 and Game Cube. I was starting to get aggravated about another flipping console. I bought the Game Cube the games were fun but the controller was awful. It resembled the PlayStation controller and I hated it. So after the PlayStation 2 had been out for a few years I finally bought one. The games were okay but I found myself playing PlayStation One games on it mostly because I liked them better than the PlayStation 2 games. Then I bought a Nintendo DS. I found myself playing Gameboy Advance games more on the DS than DS games. My brother bought the Nintendo Wii and I tried it and hated it. Why does Nintendo always come up with some new goofy controller with each system??? Now I just play games on my Android phone. With Pokemon Go and their new remolding of the graphics it rendered the game unplayable on my $30.00 six months old phone. I'm not good with phones either losing them or dropping them and they break. So I get whatever technology has to offer for $30.00 as far as phones go. I remember my first touch screen phone. It was winter and the touchscreen wouldn't respond because it was cold outside. So I threw the phone as hard as I could into the woods by my apartment. And went and bought a flip phone with buttons. I never found that phone I pitched into the woods. But it always made me laugh looking in that direction. In 2016 I finally bought another touchscreen phone to play Pokemon Go. That phone lasted a year then I bought another touchscreen phone but it seems like about every 12 months I have to get a new one because the technology gets out of date. Anyway I think you're right about a video game crash. I wasn't interested in the PlayStation 4 or 5. I still have a 3, 2 and One. The PlayStation 2 and One no longer work. I never liked the XBOX at all. I played it at a friend's house and couldn't stand the controller. It feels like a bulky baby toy. My Laptop I bought New in 2012 still has Windows 7 on it. It still works but my friend gave me a Newer Laptop for free with the current Windows version on it and I hate it because I have trouble navigating the new version of Windows. I can't even figure out how to play a DVD on it. But that's the way technology seems to go. It's only good for about six months before it's obsolete. And the constant new console and new controller stuff is getting old. Anyway have a great day._

There are lots of games to still play we should be okay .

Maybe it time to take the big fish out the small pond.

what music outro is this?

Idk how I missed this video before, this is such a good take! You're speaking from my soul

I feel like we have plenty of games to hold us over. Even older games are fun to come back to.

game companies cranking up game prices to $60, 70, 80 saying people will still buy them... then they start laying off people because sales are way down.

They need to bring back more couch co-op games! I'm talking, Halo Combat Evolved, group of friends and family, everyone bring their own tv and xbox. Snacks, Pizza and Red vs Blue all round!

Wha... This was a really intelligently worked out summary of what's happening in gaming now. Great job.

great video, came from asmon. good quality, i hope you gain more traction.

More of this, i would like to see more history videos from you!

1:00 In fact I think that for most gamer covid did,nt change nothing to their routine. During all the pandemic I was asking WHY? WHY ? why I work in a so important place that can't close to provide essential ressource ? I want stay at home playing an MMO lollll

Unfortunately

There won't be a crash in the video game industry, but with these ups and downs in the industry many classic games and franchises go into limbo, and studios too.

I have three games lined up for purchase. I don't know what your on about. Frostpunk 2 Hades 2 and citizen sleeper 2 (A very sequel year)

I've been playing games since the 90's arcade scene. I grew up in an era where you had to beat games to unlock characters. Also, prices were $40 - $60, then discounted a significant amount a month or 2 later. When I see Tekken 8 base game priced at $70 - $80, with no dlc, I've essentially been cut out of the purchasing market. I'm basically forced to hold the line and wait for the "ultimate edition". Even the way steam on pc works, if you purchase the base game, you disqualify yourself in buying the "ultimate edition" in the future. Lose-lose. You get pushed into being a pirate at this point.☠️🏴‍☠️

I am a displaced dev, who was let go from Epic back with their big one, and I 100% back your take, and give you a new sub. Great work on this.

With the high price of rent, Food, Heating, Gas, Insurance and the like. Games are kind of hard to justify spending the amounts modern games want, I'll just play my classics and steam library.

Great analysis , can we have the list of OSTs and music with time stamps used on this video plz ?

I am so sharing this with my Discord buddies.

Toki was the original O.G. .25 cent microtransaction

Legalized Cannabis was also booming in the pandemic, and crashing now.

How's the saying go? "Those that fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it?"

The video game crash 2.0 mainly affects the AAA-studios. And it can crash and burn, most people are sick and tired of it anyways. This is also the start of a golden age for indies, A and AA gaming. Since the marketshares that dominated by the AAA-companies are now opening up, there is plenty of opportunities for the non-AAA studios to tap into. Besides, with Unreal Engine 5, lesser studios will be able to develop games that are nearly AAA-quality but for far less cost. Which also indicates that the AAA-industry is going more and more irrelevant.