Constant growth is a delusion. That's the problem every buisness faces today. Stop expecting constant growth and just try to run a consistent business.

This is why companies refuse to ship a full game with all the content. Because they make so much money from micro transactions, cosmetics and DLC. Which goes beyond a 1 time game purchase.

The biggest problem with the free market is the idiocy of the particpants who continue to reward bad companies for bad practices and bad games.

That "golden parachute" comment perfectly describes the majority of corporate America. People are capable of anything when money is their god.

A lot of this BS wouldn't be happening in the Games Industry if people actually voted with their wallets.

Rich, if the gaming Industry crumbles, will you be forced to do Tech Reviews?! 😮

This kinda felt like a pre old rich style video. Liked it

If they want to make more profit maybe they should stop making poor decisions, attacking legitimate criticism, and throwing money at the problem. Wild idea, I know.

Low budget and indie games are now better than most AAA-games today, bigger companies' game budgets had swollen to ridicilous sizes and yet they launch games mostly totally broken. Futhermore they tried to milk more and more money from people's pockets with several ways by doing less work. People just got fed of it and voted with their wallets. This is the results! And I am happy! This could finally be the start of change for better.

This channel is crumbling, and here’s why

Rich tomorrow: The games industry is thriving. Let's get into it.

I DON'T CARE ANYMORE ABOUT GAMING 😊. I mean, surely I'm not the only one slowly losing interest in games when they come with more and more microtransactions, dlc, random editions with mid perks, forced ideologies or even worse, bad content all together. Gaming is just losing the "fun" and without "fun" there's no "cash" from me.

Rich tomorrow: Iam overfed , incapacitated and Iam also gay and I need Ralph in my life asap . Let's get into it

Another problem is a lot of these corporations buy out studios and the core talent leaves

Fortnite is free to play. The other devs want to charge $50-$70 and then skins and battle passes on top. If they’re going to go games as a service, drop the holding charge and put the time into the limited time events within the game to draw attention to the game and sell skins with licensing deals. The upfront charge on a games as a service title deters consumers like me from purchasing titles. I’m sure I’m not the only one, but they see the cod success and they decide to still charge for the game. These new IP’s don’t come with a solid fan base out of the gate. It’s earned over time.

I dont care... i'm about to have a kid, so I'll stick to my good old retro library from now on.

I remember 3 or 4 years ago, that people cried for a new crash in the gaming market, because the games coming out felt stagnant. Seeing this Situation now, it's just sad.

Rich Tomorrow: My Netflix quality video essay from the other day was worse than Jays edited drama videos. Lets get into it

Make a great single player game and it will make money

Also, in Europe, at least with Russia invading Ukraine gas and electric cost have been astronomical due to the politicians having other interests in their shareholdings

I think it's fine. Like 90% of games are perfectly sustainable cause they have lower budgets. And I think even the big budget stuff is gonna be fine generally.

Yes. The AAA industry. Not the entire industry though.

More of a reason to get older Gen consoles now.

Rich has the answers, he has run multiple billion dollar companies

Deus Ex 1 and half life 1 is proof you need developers invested into what they are making or else you are going to get garbage.

Nothing in life last forever

Rich Tomorrow: Society is also crumbling, let's get into it.

Never mind the gaming industry, the whole planet overall is crumbling. Hopefully we make it out of 2024!

It’s just exactly like the car industry in the U.S 🤷🏻‍♂️⁉️

It just goes to show how much personality was showcased in gaming up to the eighth generation. Some of my favourite video games Super Metroid and Jet Force Gemini were developed by passionate teams that truly loved what they did to deliver a product not just to make a profit by copying others and charging micro-transactions but to tell a great story and deliver unique gameplay experiences. Both of these games had average sales but I can’t stress enough the development of these games have so much love put into them that it upsets me seeing the gaming industry is now turning towards another crash over 40 years later. It’s nothing but money money money! Layoffs, micro-transactions, photorealistic graphics that will just age in a few years and absurd price tags that will also eventually fall.

Great video. Also liked the old school bit with you playing Castlevainia IV while narrating the video.

The industry is just fine. What we are seeing is a market correction. The wheat is being separated from the chaff

That's why I'm not on any side when it comes to any gaming company

Yeah the layoffs make me want to invest in a ps5 pro even more

It would grow if they made good 1 player games

The answer is sticking to a budget on game development. AA games are being more successful than some AAA games, and there's ways to make games with art styles that will still look good without needing them to look hyper-realistic. Look at Wind Waker and Breath of the Wild. Those games will still look beautiful 10 years from now. I think it's part of the reason why Fortnite is so successful. The graphics really aren't all that demanding.

Rich “we need communist gaming!”

Why we need more smaller budget/middle market games that don't cost as much to development so don't need as major of a return. AA is the future, like Helldivers 2 & Dark Souls!

Phil Spencer: “Heard ya got robbed!!”

How about the fact major AAA games are woke as crap and no one wants that?

I wouldn't describe our economy as capitalist. I don't know what you'd call it, but it's not capitalism when everything is owned by 4 or 5 companies. You could argue this is the end result of capitalism, but really it's just failure to properly maintain the system without letting too much wealth gather in 1 place. This is where inflation and calls for communism originate from in America, failure to properly maintain capitalism and letting it deteriorate into what we have now

Thanks I'm glad I'm not the only one who sees what's going on with the game industry. People used to make games because they thought of a idea that was fun and wanted to share that gift to others. Now people make games just to make money and lost sight of what got them here. I'm tried of bad games coming that's not fun to play.

Maybe also crumbling because internet sucks and no internet in rural areas like me, missing out on money from these places

Agreed, profits are king! If profits were limited, companies might start caring more about how they treat employees. They also might sell products at a fair price and not opportunistically gouge consumers. Heck, they might even worry more about the quality of the product they sell.

We aready know how the business sector works smh 🤦🏽

Lets be honest, they hired to many remote workers and a good percentage of layoffs are those. Another part is they've probably reevaluated and realize most devs spend 80% of their working day sitting around and complaining they didnt get their espresso. Most triple A games are completely unfinished, micro transactions are king now, and gamers will eat that garbage no matter what. Why have a whole team when you can have a dozen people just make mico transactions and skins for 9.99 a piece.

I miss the 360 era so much. It was peak gaming. Gaming needs a revolution. Games utilized gameplay mechanics that have proven to be timeless. Devs were like, It's a game, will get right to the point & focus on doing what u want really well. Modern Console libraries are lacking selection & quality so much. Devs should never stop taking inspiration from previous game gens. Timeless games don't need hyper realistic graphics. Some of the best games have unique art styles. Anytime i say this someone in the comments always says: "umm well we have indie games" but my point is we need these kind of game selection on CONSOLES as well. PC's have steam & tons of access to a unique library of creative projects. Look at the Game Library of the most recent game consoles? Now look at previous generation consoles? There's no competition. It's not even close to the PS2, N64, PS1, Xbox, GameCube, Dreamcast, 360, PS3, etc. If game devs & game companies realize they are wasting such insane amounts of $ & time to make a game that still runs so terribly (no matter if u have the best PC possible. Which proves it's how these games were made. Not the tech hardware needing a upgrade. I bet we haven't even come close to pushing modern hardware to it's limits yet) *So if devs & companies can see the benefit of them taking inspiration from previous game generation designs, they might realize it wouldn't take so long to make a game, it wouldn't cost so much money to make EACH GAME. Give these things a chance to prove they are capable of being timeless. Hopefully we see a resurgence of pure nerdy passion & focus from devs if they are allowed to just focus on smaller passion projects. Especially with today's technological advancements. Previous games should still inspire newer games no matter how far into the future we go. We shouldn't leave those unique aspects of gaming universe in the past. Hopefully the struggles of the modern day triple AAA games will organically shift change back towards a better direction. I just worry about the gaming industry being at a certain point where people who are severely out of touch with the core gaming community are the ones that are making the most decisions and forcing devs to do things they completely don't want to do because they know it's a bad idea.. I wish we didn't have so many game companies get bought out. I miss when a game was a project worked on by a group of passionate people who decided they wanted to create this passion project.. Now it's like a popular underground band getting bought out by a mega Corp and now they have full say in the way they play music and when they play music and what they say in their music.. I hope gaming snaps out of this dark chapter and they find their roots they left in the wake of the Y2K era..

"Triple A" is basically crashing... not all of the industry as a whole.. people still love games and buy games.. but just those expensive endeavors are dying. Games that are all eye candy and no real substance. No real creativity nor experimentation. Also.. as a kid.. i guess i'm alone on this.. but i honestly did constantly wonder how games were made.. i never assumed it was like magic.. I realized it was created.

The blames and cancelations lies not with DEI ESG but with the devaluation of the workers by the people at the top We must work at collectivism - Eileen Holowka - Weird ghost which is connected to sweet baby inc

It's kinda crazy that nothing outsold the PS2 until maybe now with the Switch.

Stop blaming capitalism. It is a humanity issue. No matter the system, those in power will always take way more than their fair share off the backs of others.

These small layoffs make me believe that they are all those dei hirers that move from one game studio to the next like locusts. Not to mention there is also an investment factor too with all that ESG bait money. Also when they buy a game studio everyone gets laid-off for the ceos, that is such a bad business modal, especially for game studios. Also they keep hiring people who dont have a clue in what they are doingl. Also they hate their own consumer base.

You clearly don't understand the difference between capitalism and corporatism

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If you think the industry is crumbling, step away from AAA games. Aside from a very small handful, they're all live service micro transaction filled, over glorified rental garbage.

If you look up the definition for “inconsistency”, Rich’s photo pops up

I’ve been saying for quite a while a crash is coming

The Rocksteady that we have to isn’t the same Rocksteady that created Riot: Urban Chaos and the Arkham Series

I've been saying for a long time Rich if either employees or customers don't like the way a company is behaving, start buying shares. Remember when retail investors stuck it to pros with GameStop? Maybe do the same thing to SONY or Microsoft; sure they have a lot more shares, but it certainly would put the bean counters on notice.

I think developers are afraid AI will take over game development. So publishers and developers are laying people off to cut costs. Also, modders are getting better at cracking into giving them better graphics and assets.

Hearing you talk about greed after you fired and then harass Jay is funny and shows you're lack of self-awareness

With this Industry it is really weird ,especially when the economy isn't the best for a lot of people who buy their games .I know that I watch to see what kind of B.S. is going on with it always online, micro transactions, 155555 GB patches , not getting the full game then they have 500 dlcs 6 months later.I have a Steam account and get some really good deals on entire game serries , free weekends, ect I have enough games that I really do not need to buy anything , that isn't a great game experience . Even with all these newer games coming out with the best graphics ect . I still find myself going back to some older games with great levell design and replay ability . Greed with everyone trying to chase the same pot of gold doesn't help either.

Hey Rich, can you talk about how GameStop is dying and definitely won't survive another day? You've never done that before.

Because just like any company the market is fickle. Things are bound to not last. Good or bad. Also the games suck

I don't care anymore. The industry will reap what it has sown.

There’s only so many customers and if you have PlayStation and Xbox that are practically the same thing, they won’t get any more. PC and Nintendo have some different customers and some identity. We are in a transition period.

shareholders, investors, and ceos need to understand infinite growth is impossible, they should instead try to reach the saturation level and adjust when nescessary

We're going to get a lot of soul-less, bland, AI games in the very near future. At least from AAA companies. (AAAA is you're Ubisoft)

It’s 1983 all over again! I knew that there would be a second video games crash 💥

DEI/ESG/BRIDGE is 100% why it’s crumbling. Hiring too many architects with ZERO game experience to make the games. Working as intended.

There actually haven't been to many games I'm excited for.

Honestly I haven't seen anything this year that has caught my eye aside from the upcoming Killer Klowns from Outer Space.

ESG money flooded the gaming industry and the gaming audience don’t want to play DEI games. Now ESG money is drying up and many companies are folding. You now have Xbox fan boys who now actively want Xbox to go bankrupt. DEI is is flat out terrible for business.

The pandemic was a couple months at most. It was wildly over dramatic

Rich you really need to learn to distinguish between capitalism as a whole and publicly traded companies where shareholders expect continual infinite growth. This issue is not capitalism but publicly traded companies

this is what greed does to people

Oh here we go, another one complaining about capitalism that has heavily benefited from it.

You know you're a socialist when you mention the Marxist term "capitalism" 10 times in 10 minutes

I feel like at this point Rich is just Complaining

There’s a game system for those who don’t enjoy the series X or PS five generation, it’s called retro console. just buy consoles that are over 20 years old, that’s a better choice than complaining all the time.

I appreciate this video. The more game creators (publishers mostly) chase the live service dragon, the more they facilitate the live service model furthering Fortnite's dominance which uses a greedy FOMO live service model that overall hurts the industry and it's killing creativity, fun, originality. Helldivers 2 was a breath of fresh air that isn't greedy or predatory, but rather its creatively smart, and simply fun

Its kinda hard to grow the industry when you make games that are just worse live service copies of popular existing games. And expect people who have limited time to play all of them all the time.

indie is where its at. Games have gotten too big, and it cant be sustained. Smaller teams, making smaller projects with fun ideas is the future. That mindset was what made the 5th into the 7th generation so memorable, it was passionate people make a game THEY wanted to play.

The reason why video game companies are dying is because there just isn't any good games so people aren't spending much money. Covid has nothing to do with it, creating good fun games that aren't full of greedy things such as microtransactions and subscriptions is what us gamers want and have always wanted.

Welcome to the dumpster fire of your own making game industry 👍 I spent the pandemic gaming in my little retro gaming space and enjoyed every second of it

fortnite ruined online gaming

I paused the video at 0:00 just to get to comments. I must be getting faster as I get older. And now back to Joey Diaz, Classic Game Room (EDF!) and Vinny Vinesauce.

not crumbling, but changing. old profit driven companies slowly die, while new player first companies thrive... it just the way it is. and there is nothing wrong about it.

Wonder how many 343 employees are playing Helldivers2....

I wish we could have another golden age of gaming!

When it just becomes about making money in games not that there is anything wrong with making money but the creativity starts to go away and just look back at the games many years ago

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Rich Tomorrow: "Hey everyone.... the bird industry is falling apart and I am getting into horses. *Enters Vaush who takes Rich's horse away* Will that lasted long. Let's get into it.... and Vaush get into horses.... by riding them on coarses."

The biggest problem are casuals who feel the need to buy cosmetics for games they don't even like. Stop giving bad games money... if you're curious then give it the lowest amount of money possible.

I see this companies pursuing infinite growth failing to do so and labling the effort as kind of a waste. But I want to see a companie, group, business or whatever that meets investor expectations and growths forever. I really want to see that and don't believe that people are following an illusion.

That title is so true

Ai one day will take over the CEO position and the executive boards. No more profit for anyone.

My work has the stupidest and nonsensical motto for growth this year..

Disney being the exception when it comes to profits. They care more about identity politics and virtue signalling than profits.

Capitalism is why you don't have to get a real job