Gaming is Dying... This Is why | Video Essay 

*Gaming dying is a myth to be honest. Literally there's thousands of games to play, many genres of games to mix it up to keep gaming fresh. It's only boring if you're used to playing strictly triple A games or just one or two genres of games.*

2 things that will *_never_* die: - games *_and_* - people claiming gaming is dying

Prices are going up and quality is going down.

I don’t think gaming is dying but I do believe that most big name franchises are. And who knows maybe it will make way for a even better experience in gaming

Gaming isn't necessarily dying. What I've come to realize is that aaa gaming is headed towards another crash at some point and over time indie developers are becoming the carriers of gaming

I think one of my priblems with gaming is just that i have to dish out more money. I am starting to feel like i am being priced out of it.

I wish they could bring games back to their formal glory. And give us amazing storytelling games.

When a selling point of a generation is an effect (Ray Tracing) you know that there's something wrong.

For me, the best era of gaming were PS2 & mid-PS3 eras. we got everything in one games without any subscription and microtransaction thing. I miss the term "expansion pack"

I love gaming as an adult tbh. No more following releases. Not buying into any hype, not feeling pressured into buying the latest marketing hypetrain. If it looks interesting, I'll wishlist it and buy it on sale. Last year I've only bought Elden ring around summer because of the buzz, and I had a good time. But I have enough games to play and not enough time to play them so it's still fun

It’s sad “AC: Unity” was released so unfinished. The game looked amazing and the improvements to the assassination mechanics and especially the parkour were awesome.

You're not right about FPS quality. Back then, when you were a child, there was no better quality, and of course you didn't even know about better quality. Technology has advanced, and they still want to make money from low quality.

The solution to all of this is to NOT buy at launch and wait for sales prices. I only have a couple of titles that I would purchase full price for at launch, so you might as well add 3 months to any AAA title’s release date. Only purchase full price at launch if the reviews confirm the stability and content is there.

Its amazing, that even when people are not happy with the state of gaming currently, they still wont go back to their backlog of great games, many of which they got for free or pennies.

Ive felt this way about gaming for years. Games come out but they lack soul

I've been a gamer since that was even possible (yeah I'm old). Been a PC gamer since the 80s and I've played every console that's came out since the Atari 2600. All the issues you mention are valid, but there are so many truly GOOD games coming out every year that it doesn't matter much to me. You have to be discerning, but whatever genre's you like, you will find multiple gems a year. Even games as service.... I've played Path of Exile for 10 years and I think it's the best example of doing it right. So I'm hopeful too... Even if the AAA market gets worse, plenty of indies will fill the void.

Trust issues are a very correct description of what's happening. I can't think of the last time I was excited about something that isn't an indie title. Ten years ago, I would have been hungering to play something like Forspoken, but now it just feels like "oh I guess it was released- it was bad? alright".

I think that the whole issue with games being put out that run terribly and can't work is because game companies are trying so hard to keep pumping out incredible graphics that their games are starting to get away from the average pc gamer in terms of GPU power. Like all of the streamers say that they don't really have problems with games, but that's because they have the top of the line tech in their computers, which is probably very similar to the test kits QA people use to test the games during development. They need to invest more time into running the games on lower end PCs and figure out how to optimize for that, because they're missing their main demographic by requiring a 4090 to play a game, and even the new Gollum game has that problem, and it's not even a graphically intensive thing. It's ridiculous that game companies keep getting away with this type of stuff, but it takes the consumers to band together and actually vote with our wallets instead of just saying it.

I would like to hear your take on why the couch co-op games are going extinct. I remember playing Army of 2, Gears of War, and RE5 for hours!😊

All of the Arkham Games were absolute perfection in my opinion.

When we were kids we probably weren't paying for the games. I think its 100% reasonable to ask for something that appears to be doable by all developers and games. They're asking us to pay $70-$100+ for games that don't even work properly half the time. Yes I want all the bells and whistles and everyone should

""Gaming is dying" is an overstatement. There are definitely problems with the video game industry as you mentioned. However, there is way too much of a focus on big budget studio projects and when these studios fail to deliver as promised, youtubers who only focus on the latest triple A titles feel like the world is ending. There are hundreds of fun games available that don't get enough attention.

Miss the glory days on Xbox 360 playing Halo 3 where we actually EARNED the vidmaster achievements to earn that new Recon armor. All gone now, just thankful I even got to live those days.

I think we need more games where you wont have to rely on teammates who are legit 5 year olds

1. gaming started to lose quality with patches and dlc splitting up the game and enabling companies to release broken games. 2. gamers attitudes started changing for the worse when social media infected gaming (streaming / lets plays) everyone only focused on winning and not how they won, everyone knew the meta for any game and could easily find it, everyone became clout chasers. 3. freemium business model, since the explosion of fortnite games have been shown a whole generation of gamers will happily buy in to a free game and spend $ on skins and gamble with their parents money. 4. gamers like everyone since social media took over, dont listen to anyone, everyone has a main character outlook while most are too dense to see the issues, most are too busy to think about it and most now are too young to remember what console gaming and pc gaming was like before all this trash changed the landscape. we live in a world where everyone wants to have their cake and eat it too by which i mean they want to cry about something and keep using that thing. then the thing keeps getting worse. did i miss anything?

it's not dying, far from it. the industry is too big to fail, i think it's just where in that era where it's considered a cash grab by most than an art form. remember when movies became this big medium and then suddenly we got submerged by ridiculous amount of cheesy redlettermedia level of movies that go straight to VHS. we're in it, but eventually more and more Martin Scorsese and Steven Spielberg and john Cameron and Christopher Nolan will emerge ... we'll still have trash but more quality will still be available but it'll get more expensive too

This happens everywhere, not just in gaming.

Gaming isn’t dying, integrity is.

A lot of games don’t have the “it factor” like back in the days . Man I loved some games growing up but now I can hardly find a game worth playing . I find myself going back to play some of the old gen games for a bit of fun

I think the biggest issue with change and the lack of it is burn out. You can highlight this with the AC games. They were too frequent and players got burnt out on them and devs started to struggle with new and interesting ideas and plot points. Now looking past Valhalla, Mirage is going to go back to the “roots” of the series after a long break and now people are excited about playing the same thing they were getting bored of. But the biggest problem here is that they already have 4 more games after it planned. Shareholders love long term and stable plans. And I don’t blame them for that nor do I blame developers being beholden to them. But this combination of longterm planning for all the same games is hurting new and fun ideas in the space. If you look at God of War series as an alternative, it had a long delay before a reboot that revamped a lot of the gameplay while keeping a similar feel and has released only 2 of these games over a 4 year period and no plans for another norse mythology game and people have loved them for it. If developers would supplement their release cycle by doing a “ga release” of something new or different in between their main title launches you’d have a much happier audience and a healthier gaming environment.

kinda weird how the family that owns ubisoft seems like a bunch of far cry villains

I tend to play my older games on newer hardware, it’s like getting a remaster with out the remaster

Though I am sympathetic towards the issues developers face, I have to say, as I am running a dev team, that developers massively overestimate their capabilities and speed thus making it impossible to create reliable estimations of any timing. This is a huge issue in project management. Most PMs verify the estimations by their devs and unless you deal with a team of hardcore seniors, they will not manage. Thus I am pretty sure that this is a very important contributing factor in the unfinished games.

Agree with almost everything, but 60fps a makes a huge difference. Its the constant need for better graphics that is the problem.

social media is what destroyed gaming. you don't see people say they hate games even around 2011.

Why are there dozens upon dozens of cynical videos stating “gaming is dying”, “gamings downfall”?

You lost me at 60fps. These consoles and PC parts are not getting cheaper. If a game can't run 60fps with the technology we have while paying more. It's a massive problem. Indie games/ pixle lated games get away with it because 30fps doesn't affect it's gameplay drastically.

The problem is AAA game making is so expensive that it's hard to take a big risk that might not pan out

You see while I didn’t care about Metroid prime running at 60fps on the GameCube when I was a child, the game just felt better than a lot of other games out there during the time. Amazing graphics and solid performance for sure drew me towards it as a child.

I've been gaming since 1978 when my Dad brought home a paper printer based terminal and I logged into the McDonald Douglas mainframe to play tic tac toe. Think of the movie War Games, but no nuclear weapons. Arcades, consoles, PC gaming, portables, old school mechanical and electrical. I've seen it all. People have been talking about it dying since that first gaming expeience. It died after the arcade. It died after Atari. It died after IBM. It died after Windows 98, XP, 7, 10 and how many versions of DirectX. It died after sound cars, graphics cards, phyX cards, raid 0, and SSDs. It died after XBox. It died after Sega. It died after PlayStation 1, then 2, and what are we up to now? It'll die after those too. Its died a dozen times after Nintendo and Mario alone. It died after Quake and Halflife and Team Fortress. It died after Madden. It died after MMOs. It died after COD and Battlefield. It died after Steam. It died after crypto. It died again after covid ended. I know I'm missing dozens upon dozens of other relavent platforms and titles where it has died or is in the process of dying. The only constant in gaming is that it is always dying. Yet here we are. Gaming will never die. My two little boys fighting over my old laptop to play Among Us or sitting next to me to "help" me play Starfield on my gaming PC will make sure of that. If you ask my 6 year old what he wants to be when he grows up he will tell you...a game developer.

On the topic of fps not being at consistent state, this isn't just the topic of performance affecting how a game plays. there are some who are sensitive to sudden frame drops. to that type of person it can actually make them feel motion sick. At one point i wasn't able to feel this for myself but in recent years playing modded classic doom I can feel when the framerate drops and if i play with the framerate massively fluctuating it can quickly become uncomfortable and nauseating to play very quickly for me.

I've talked to my dad about how much games cost now and he told me in terms of inflation the games when I was a kid were just as expensive and without game rentals he'd never have been able to let me play so many games. Consoles were just as expensive too it's pretty crazy. I'm surprised gaming companies having come up with some sort of digital rental service or something I know it'd work.

Gaming is just adopting common problems that all "industries" face eventually, I won't quit gaming as long as they're being made...

I think 60 fps being standard is perfectly fine. I understand some games are perfectly played at 30, but it is a technological feat that we HAVE to standardize for us to keep innovating. It’s the same reason 720p on videos are unacceptable now (1080 will soon be this). 60 fps is just a product of the time and there is nothing wrong with that.

I also want to add to the Lacking of Change point. I feel like another thing that hinders the gaming community, and just media in general, is Nostalgia. As you mentioned, a lot of the games that come out from these AAA gaming companies are remakes or sequels. Sometimes there will be the occasional game that branches out from the norm, but it often gets criticized to all hell, sometimes even before it comes out. Don’t get me wrong, a lot of these games are critiqued rightly so. But I personally don’t think that the new games that release should be looked as an excuse of why “older games are better”. I also agree Greed definitely has a huge hand in this, but I think that Nostalgia plays a significant role as well. From a business standpoint, companies make the same/similar games because that’s what sells. From a consumer standpoint, you’re getting another game that is a remake/sequel of a game series that you like/use to like so you can scratch your nostalgia itch. It’s a win win, right? But I feel like while that can be good, it also sets up the idea that there is no improvement for newer games because they don’t hit a certain mark like older games did. BF2042 is an example of this. While the game released in an EXTREMELY poor state and there was some valid criticism for it, what I mostly saw within the criticism was that the game doesn’t feel/should have been like previous battlefield titles. To be fair, 2042 did advertise itself to be similar to older BF games, so of course people were expecting that. But even with the constant updates and bug fixes for the game, and its increase in popularity, you still have people who argue that “it’s not like BF___” or “it’ll never be as good as BF_____” It’s one thing to have a favorite game, but it’s another to like something from your past and then let nostalgia cloud your judgement on a newer game whenever it releases. That’s why I think that games should stop trying to advertise themselves as a “blast from the past” and make new, original content, and when those come out, we should, in turn, be critiquing those new games based on things outside of how it compares to older titles. That way, companies can (hopefully) learn from there mistakes and continue to make newer content instead of saying “oh we pissed off our audience by trying to be greedy again! Lets just hit them with a remaster/sequel and we should be good.”

Mainstream AAA franchies "dying" is the result of games being marketed to try and appeal to the largest amount of people possible. People hate it but at the end of the day the aim of a business is to make money and no one is forcing people to give their money to the companies. The customer is to blame for constantly funneling money towards shit products. It's insane how much in denial the gaming community seems to be about this. Those franchises are not dying. They are making way more money than the most succesful previous entries (take assassins creed valhalla vs assassins creed 2 or modern warfare 2 2 vs modern warfare 2). It is inevitable because the average Joe isn't as passionate and invested into videogames the same way a lot of people are who were gamers from back in the day and have experienced all there is to experience. The average Joe doesn't really care about a coherent story or tight gameplay mechanics as long as there is plenty of eye candy and activity to keep him invested for 1 hour or so a day after work before football. The soul and depth of the franchises may have died but they certainly havn't lost their profitability. Again consumer keeps encouraging this so maybe the consumer is to blame for their lack of standards. On a much brighter note, Indie studios now are at the stage that AAA devs were at back in the day where they do not have a brand/reputation and need to make a great product in order to place themselves as a player on the market and there are some amazing games out there to try. Go explore other things insead of waiting for AAA games to return to their past glories as they certainly do not have the incentive to as they are raking in cash even from shit games. Plus the general culture where these games are made (the west) has changed a lot since the noughties and 2010's for the worst with lots of politics constantly being shoehorned into media. Seriously. Go check out other things and stop waiting for the past to come back. It won't. You need to go and find new sources of fun for yourself.

Actually i think the biggest reason for this gaming death illusion is game reviews, they make gaming more like a shore

I am genuinely glad that someone else plays games to also feel something... I thought I was alone. I also think this should be said If game isn't for then it doesn't always mean it's bad.

You can tell that half the people in this comment section haven’t even watched the video considering they all seem to think he’s only saying that gaming is dying due to greed and triple A games even though one of his points is that our standards have become to high.

Thank you for addressing this issue we need more people pushing back. Consumer Protection Laws for digital goods the responsibility for quality assurance also falls on retailers like steam Sony and Microsoft selling faulty goods. Now do u think greedy Gabe steam or Microsoft Sony would give up there 30% cut from game's to assure quality.

Especially competitive games. Everybody wants to be the best of the best and that in turn brings fatigue.

Gaming has died. 30 years ago, we got some games that were revolutionary, at least for those of us that grew up in the arcade shops. Also, games back then, were interesting and brilliant, had a soul and a lot of replayability. Examples include : Commandos Behind Enemy Lines, Jagged Alliance 2, Assasin's Creed, the first one. Now it's all soulless repeats, fancy, flashing colors and stinking microtransactions and for what ? skins, nothing actually useful.

The current state of video games seems akin to the video game crash of 1983 and Gollum is like a carbon copy of Atari's E.T.

Frame drops used to be a feature 🤣 I used to love when an action sequence happened, I did something cool and the frames dropped to made it look like SLO mo. I used to think it was done intentionally.

Its not only the games guys… its ALSO the community…

Who ever denies this fact must be a fan of cyberpunk2077, battlefield 2042, COD: Vanguard, and they probably have all the remakes that they bought at full price with a reservation for the gold editions.

Gaming's going through one of many crashes that it's had previously, with every major shift in gaming tech theres a lull in certain aspects. This happened with the move from arcade cabinets, the move from 2d to 3d also had issues.

Title is a bit overdramatic, but the points you make are very good, especially towards the end when you say that companies are going to have to stop some of their habits eventually because people are less and less tolerant towards it. I frankly believe that in 5 years time, unfinished games releasing will be a thing of the past because of the shit Cyberpunk (and many others) got at launch. Hearing Eiji Aonumo say that TotK was basically finished in march 2022 but they decided to delay the game to polish it makes me quite hopeful.

I don’t think gaming is dying at all people just aren’t branching out of there comfort zone for games

generally games need to be 60 fps because the screens we view them on will more readily show the flaws of them if not. especially as more and more high quality tv's and monitors become more cheap and mainstream. it also depends on the art style and presentation. on a cartoonish style it may not matter but like with jedi survivor the style is sci-fi realism, so there FPS matters a lot.

games were made by gamers, which is what we fell in love with. new games are made by developers trying to reach their quota

The real scam is that if the studio bankrupts and the server is shut down the game can't even be accessed anymore despite you have spent hundreds of $ on costumes.

as long as greed exists I think gaming and a whole lot more is going down a hole. the only AAA game I can think of recently that did'nt have a battle pass or micro-transactions is baldur's gate 3

Gaming isn’t dying exactly, but it’s come to the point where you need to trust who you invest your money into very wisely. Personally, I’m going back to the classics.

Gaming will never die.

Correction: AAA gaming is dying. The large publishers are beginning to phase out as they are not relevant. Look at AA or indies and you see them improving considerably.

Once you’ve been accustomed to high fps it is hard to go back, specially if the game has bad input lag which many games do. Besides it’s not as simple as not caring how a game ran, context matters, we were used to lower frame rates back then, now things are different and so are speciations and wants.

This is YOUR FEELINGS, cause you are older, you are maturing, you have personal revelation. Don't forget that every day kids get a console for the first time and become gamers, it's a circle, so it's your personal experience, I don't mix new generations, their experiences with those games are the same as when we tried gaming for the first time.

I'm from 1980 and I had the happiness of practically seeing the evolution of video games, from Atari, Spectrum, Sega, Nintendo, etc... And I think that this generation only lives and gives importance to graphics, 4k Tv, frames, instead of history of a game and also, instead of having fun. I think they also live on hype in games and hypes are momentary. Not only in games, but the whole industry in general is dying: the music, the movies. It doesn't take a genius to see that in these fields too, so many games, movies and music live off the success of the past, that is, remakes or remasters. The charm they once had and the value they gave to something has been lost and that is why they are dying. It seems that the formulas or imagination is already completely spent. By the way, in the past when I bought a game, it was complete and no dlcs (cashgrab) were needed to buy extras...

I think the opportunities to rent video games nowadays has made consumers have higher expectations for their money. And renting games let's people figure out if a game is worthy of paying full price to actually own it. Rather than just beat it one time and that's it.

When we all first started gaming, it was exciting to discover what's over the next hill... We now know... A fetch quest or a kill quest. Why explore great new worlds when there are no great new things to do in those worlds

30 fps or less if not done correctly is an immediate turn off

To me it all comes down to greed and bad leadership, there are companies that are succeeding (Capcom, Guérilla Games, PlayStation Studios etc.) and there are many that are failing because they stopped caring about making good games first. Just look at the fall of Bethesda, the last time they put out a high quality product was back in 2014 with ESO, bad leadership, bad game engine and overall an inability to meet their own goals has ruined their reputation. You can see this across the board with many major publishers and developers, they just can’t reproduce the greatness of old because they just care about making a product just good enough that at the end of development they make more money then they put in.

...and here's me making a game on my own without backing of any big industries hoping to do just what the games of old did, but I know no one's ever gonna see this or take serious interest.

I hate when ppl influence their community to not even try a game before trying to criticize

6 months later gaming is not dying and is actually thriving. More money is spent on gaming today and it is just increasing. The thing is that there are so many games being made that people are spoilt for choice. The smaller game studios are talking over because they are producing a better quality product than the so called aaa studios. The smaller studios are also listening to their customers and implementing changes that make their games more enjoyable rather than just trying to make as much money as possible. Personally I think that the major gaming companies are now making very poor quality games that are massively overpriced garbage. The toxic communities that most online games now have isn't helping much ether. In the last 5 years I have spent more money on games than i did in the previous 10 years but the vast majority of the games are from small studios and are about half the price of the games from the larger studios. I will never buy anything from EAgames ever again.

Gaming is not dying. Its growing faster than ever before actually

When you talked about frame rate: Locked 30 FPS is fine to me. A "locked to 30" option is good to have in games.

Gaming is dying because: 1) The restrictions enforced on story telling and creativity by Progressive ideology. 2) Games are not designed to be fun and take chances. 3) Corporate greed. Dlc. Incomplete games being shipped. 4) Game devs are no longer being hired based on merit aka skill and talent. Diversity and inclusion mandates cannot create the highest quality Art. These are not cashier jobs at the grocery store. Only truly special creatives can create greatness.

If you think like this, you have become too spoiled with the exponential increase of quality in games over the years, take a break, and go back to them. If you prefer older games, PLAY THEM.

Saying people shouldn't complain about a game being 30 FPS is such a bad take, especially when it comes to PC gaming. There is a huge difference between 30 and 60 depending on genre and it's a valid criticism to have. I tolerate it on Switch because it's old hardware, but on PC and PS5 it's pretty much unacceptable

60 FPS maybe shouldn't be a must but it should be standard or at least an option. In this case both 30 and 60fps modes should be OPTIMISED to not have any frame dips,spikes and frametime issues. I am extremely sensible to any inconsistencies to framerate and it drives me mad when game dips in performance ,even slightly so. Regarding us plating them in worse state back in the day and not paying attention to FPS it's only partially true. Back in PS1 and PS2 era we used crt TVs that were really good at masking all these issues and imperfections. No input lag for example. Today TVs , especially OLED are absolutely and utterly terrible at handling low framerate content ,and if that content on top of it is uneven and unstable ,You get a terrible visual experience even if the game looks fantastic visually.

I think for those of us that was there from day, one supporting the game, the story the franchise. It meant something it was something special. And now it doesn’t feel the same. For the new generation coming in, it’s all completely new to them they don’t know the story they’ve not had the memorabilia they haven’t got involved with the history of the game so they really couldn’t care less. It’s just a quick shooter. I guess all good stories must come to an end. I stopped playing Halo over a year ago it doesn’t feel the same no more and I’m just not interested.

If gaming is dying the publishing company is doing it with micotransactions and incomplete products at launch

Battlefield is taking a nosedive and I have been playing them religiousy since the first one

AAA games may be dying, but great indie and AA games are being made all the time.

When in doubt, I go back to a game I played before and still enjoy it.

A game can be as good as it wants, if my eyes hurt and I get a headache due to 30 FPS, I can't play it.

Great video as always. What bugs me personally the most is not so much the price of the games or the microtransactions, but the fact the games ship out unfinished. And the reason for these half-baked releases are the preorders, which legally bind the companies to release the games within the year they promised while selling the preorder. Combined with the fact that many of these AAA games get released in autumn to take advantage of the holiday season, it leaves the development teams virtually no time to fix things/add content if they realize that their original deadline is too close to deliver on the promises made to the players in marketing material. And the marketing has to oversell the game, because if it didnt, these companies would struggle to attract investors. Not even EA or Activision have hundreds of millions of dollars lying around that these games need to be made these days. It is a deathloop of original pitch/promise and deadline set based on this, before marketing overhypes the game to secure more funding and the devs then struggling to meet the increased expectations. The result is then Cyberpunk, Anthem, BF V/2042, Fallout 76, etc.

I am so exhausted of all of these basic ass video essay RU-vidrs saying whatever cynical opinion is popular on Reddit 😒

There are a lot of unsavoury practices in modern gaming, but there are also still incredible games being released all the time. In fact, I’d say 2023 is one of gaming strongest years for a good while.

Gaming is in no way dead. There are thousands of games that are amazing both AAA & indie that so many people don't play or adventure to because they are only focused on the games they are comfortable with like FIFA or COD. If you dislike those games then play games like Dark Souls, Hollow Knight, Spelunky, death's door, Yakuza. These are just some indie/AAA games I listed off that all are amazing. If you don't want to play any games like that you simply don't like the hobby anymore.

It's probably not your genre but I think of all the games this year one of the most polished and feature rich games I've seen in a long time is street fighter 6 it's not everyday you see a game like that where you see that level of love and meticulous crafting to get every detail just right it's definitely worth checking out if you haven't seen it yet

And the age thing I don’t think holds up. I know when I’m nostalgic and when I actually like playing the game. Nostalgia is usually short lived for me. With these older online games they are just funner all around. Warhawk has massive maps and it basically a 3rd person Battlefield. You have keys tanks trucks mounted guns and rockets. And everything is a pickup. There’s no creating a class. The balance is better than most games I’ve played.

Man, part of the thing with MW2 is that the same package you bought in the form of a battlepass in MW2 has less in it than mw2019. Like all the operator skins in 2019s battlepasses had 3 skins. Now they have two skins and you have to spend an extra 30 bucks to get the second one. Which is pretty nuts when you think about it.

Thanx, you make a lot of sense👌 I gave up on consoles after PlayStation 3 & DLC, it's not mainly about passion, fun & actual games anymore, I picked up the guitar instead 😘 🎸

Ironically something that really damaged movies, remakes, revived my love of video games. I'm talking about re4 remake. I've played through it 6 times already trying to get every single thing it has to offer. There's clearly potential and talent left in the industry. They just have to be left to make art and not a good quarterly report for their shareholders.

I think we’ve gotten a bit spoiled as gamers too

One of the earliest indicators to me were proprietary launchers and always-online models. I bought a product and should in theory be able to use said product in the middle of the wilderness, if I brought my diesel generator.

Its like people saying quality in Hollywood is dying when it is just Disney and DC who just happen to be a big chunk of the market. Unless these large game companies try and crush Indie games which while difficult is possible the future is fine. Though on console so locked down I could see it.