Gaming Will Be Dead In a Year… Here’s Why. 

That's why a lot of gamers rather to play older games than the new release games. Even indie games are better than AAA games nowadays..

It feels like the whole world is going through a crash right now. Back to back recessions.

It would be crazy to see Nintendo survive 2 videogame crashes

hideo kojima is a very gentle and considerate yet powerful lover

There’s certainly going to be a crash, but it’s not going to be as dramatic as 83. There’s going to be major shake ups at AAA studios but there’s going to be a major emergence of more AAs and indies along with AAAs who manage to keep their budgets in line.

I'm not worried, my backlog is large enough to keep me busy for several lifetimes.

2023 was easily the WORST year for gaming. Hell, the last EIGHT YEARS have been FILLED with trash.

I have a contrarian opinion. It’s not that there are many layoffs, it’s that they hired too much without a plan. Activision and COD have a 3 year dev cycle in theory. So they have an army of man power to keep the machine running. But most other studios now seem to take 6 years to give 1 game. The economics on these projects are INSANE! Something seems to be changing. Seems like the Beloved indies that started getting popular with the release of Hades seems to be a new posible future for games.

Video game crash wise, only AAA gaming (specially in this era) will be affected by this, leaving AA and indie gaming (as well as good old gaming) only what's left survived that crash because they're so good the new video game crash isn't as devastating as 1983 once was. So for those who wished gaming gone, go support good games, otherwise you're part of the problem of why good games flopped in the first place 🗿

There’s a reason left 4 dead 2 and tf2 are doing way better than any other game right now

Ty for talking about this I've had this thought for a while

It really sucks to see how unfairly the blame is shifted onto the hardworking employees who dedicated their efforts to these projects by the greedy company executives

Tekken 8 sold 2 million copies and more accounting then suicide squad killed the justice league to be real. This is understandable because tekken 8.

The only celebrities in game that does make sense and are Danny Trejo and Daniel Dae Kim. Daniel Dae Kim has had experience with working on video games with the old Saints Row games and Danny Trejo is just hilarious.

Don't worry you're not alone... lost my job almost a year ago, this industry needs a hard reset... I wish there were more CEo that are actually devs and not just financial people... not saying you don't need to make money but you can't sustain an infinite growth... They'll learn. We crossed the 10k lay off in 3 months... And yeah every job offer i see there is always 100 + people applying for it leaving no chances to the new comers and no chances to a lot of seniors like me that are " too expensive".

every degree in tech looked so promising a few years ago lol we are all gonna get finished by layoffs

Films are also getting too expensive. They’ll probably crash at around the same time.

This was the only thing I could think about even 2 years ago. I'm hoping that it will pass by when I graduate...

If a video game crash happens I hope that game publishers like New Blood Interactive and their devs don't get hit by it.

I'm currently doing a masters in game art. It is a bit disheartening seeing what's going on in the industry currently, but I'm still hopeful. Indie is really starting to rise, and I'm not too fussed on working for aaa, unless it's an IP I really want to work for, I do think Indie games are going to be the way forward, and I'm probably going to get a much more rewarding and overall better experience there. And yeah, I think the main issue with aaa is, it's like you said, budgets are too high, executives not having a clue about anything that actually has to do with fun, and executives constantly pushing mtx rubbish. Sadly on a lot of cases, aaa has lost the passion game development was built on, but thankfully we still have Indie, and sure they are considered "not as big as aaa", but they have the one thing aaa is missing, and that's passion, which makes them way bigger than aaa to me

Man why did you have to say Jak 4. Now you made me remember what we could be getting

If there is a crash, I wouldn't be surprised if they suddenly cracked down on people playing on emulators. Just to force people to buy new games.

Thing is the game industry only crashed in America, however I do truthfully believe it will happen worldwide this time, also great vid as always

the 360 and ps3 years are the good ole days

Yet Nintendo will continue to thrive like the Girlbosses they are. Especially since they seemingly respect their employees. They somehow manage to stay off the layoff list and pump out bangers. Sure, their emulation drama and taking down of fangames sucks, along with their less powerful hardware, but It pays off for them. People consistently buy their games and hardware. They are a shining example of how the game industry should be and yet nobody follows.

Those poor developers are suffering from incredibly bad project management. Does somebody think that you can create a good game in a decent amount of time if you have to ask Todd first for every rock you want to place? And I'm glad that I can get enough dopamine by playing Palworld and catching pals. I filled my library with older and smaller games in the last Steam sale. AAA(A) is dead. And the thing I hate most in gaming are gamers.

So tragic to see how the industry has changed in the last 20 years. Would you do a video on AA and Indie Studios?

Sweet baby inc is a precursor to this crash

A crash in the west, maybe. But as someone who’s been playing games from east for a long time, not really worried about the future of gaming.

To quote a certain reviewer "let's all laugh at an industry that never learnt anything thing te he he"

On the flipside, the reason indie games will literally never die is because inherently 98% of them are shit, won't make money, and no matter how many times you tell everyone that there will still be 3 people willing to make their dream game. That might be an interesting topic to discuss. Indie games are just as bad at putting money in their devs' pockets but they're always somewhere between hobby and side hustle.

I wouldnt call God of war's gameplay or any of Sony's games not fun,but I agree with most things you said in the video. I love modern games ,but I would also like having more lower budget ,yet good games like Stray or the last guardian .

1991-1996: Industry releases CD add ons for multiple systems (TurboGrafx 16, Sega CD and CDX Atari Jaguar CD) stressing FMV scenes and content. During this time, TWO FMV consoles also released (Philips CDi and EA 3DO). Gaming public never warms up to "games as a movie" and consoles suffer huge losses. 2024: The circle is complete. Despite 33 years of technological evolution in gaming, FMV still sucks.

Loved this game though. I never actually finished it. Thanks for sharing. This is really fun. Keep up.

I've been playing games since the NES and for me it was 2014 onwards (PS4/Xbox1) when I noticed things were getting bad. There was a massive drop in both the quantity and quality of games coming out compared to all prior generations.

It's very simple. Covid came, everyone was playing, studios were raking in the cash and hiring to get more titles out. Now we're post covid and we've got layoffs as the market cannot support this many employees. Actually it can but it has always been about investors and growth so goodbye devs.

I think this video confirms i dont need a pc upgrade for real, like what am i going to play anyways with a high end pc a 60$ half-baked game ?

I'd rather have a game that graphically looks like it was made in 2015 but with good gameplay than these beautiful but soulless trash they are making nowadays.

You cant tell me giancarlo wasnt good at far cry 6.Hes great at everything

First off: Layoffs within tech industry and company at large are occurring left, right and center. Games layoffs are bad, yes but so are other non-gaming industries. The COVID bubble has burst. Pre COVID norms are becoming mainstay again and that means WFH fat is being cut. Supporting Double A is important more now than ever.

Hey Proxidist I know you’re not reading this but I think indie games are saving the game industry

It's hard to think it'll ever even touch the days of NES, Sega with Sega Channel, SNES, N64, and early days of Xbox. My dopamine has been drained for years. It's been dead, boring at every half put together corner.

The crash IS going to happen, but not quite in the way you might think: I suspect that the Triple A industry isn't going away, but will likely be almost completely dominated by either Live Service games that work as reliable legal casinos, or technically impressive but safe titles like Spider-Man. This will keep the general market of your average 30-something gamer engaged enough for the money to keep flowing into the industry enough to keep it alive, but I think quality games with stronger innovation will likely be dominated by the Indie Scene going forward. Allow me to explain: As you mentioned in the video, a lot of the issue with modern Triple A games is their replication of crappy dev practices from back in the 80's. Mainline games are right back to treating video games as virtual merchandising opportunities rather than genuine art. A proper game should have a quality vision while also providing a fun, meaningful purpose to its core mechanics, story, and art direction, and that's all being thrown out the window to make the next big title a live-service cash cow. We've been seeing the same story play out with film over the last few years as Disney mismanges all of its big properties in an attempt to squeeze more money out of them despite their sloppy storytelling and usually rushed CGI. The difference between games and films is, while a lot of people will probably just choose to not watch a movie if they don't think its good, videogames' present a consumer with an INTERACTIVE incentive, which for many people is the only real reason they'll play games: To get a wish-fullfillment fantasy out of controlling a powerful character, or by dominating opposition in a multiplayer game. A lot of Triple A games will stay alive because simply interacting with those power-fantasy will be enough to keep them afloat, regardless of how safe the game is in its direction or how exploitive the predatory practices of the live-services get. In the same way that modern Assassin's Creed games are still bought by millions despite their unintuitive quality, future Triple A games will likely be very impressive from the standpoints of graphics and loading but fail to deliver on the same fronts in regards to gameplay and narrative expansion. And with that in mind, I feel that in the wake of the Triple A crash will come a new horizon for the indie scene: Nobody's clammoring for AI art obviously, but what I think is overlooked is how a lot of AI advancements can be used for the ASSISTANCE of artistic creation rather than replacing it. With so many new powerful tools available to potential creators, budding devs now have more resources to get more done within less time and in smaller times (particularly in regards to more tedious technical activities like programming). This allows more focus to be put into the more conventional side of game development, and more ideas about its potential direction to be explored. And in regards to production within Independent teams, a lot of developments have been made in recent years that have normalized working conditions like working from home and collaborating in virtual offices, which have made working with team members regardless of location even easier than ever before. The Indie scene has potential to dominate the game's industry in a big way in the next coming decade. But in truth all of this is speculation. Whether the game's industry will crash at all is still up in the air, as I'm obviously not sorting threw the stock market trends of big companies to see what's going on with the overall industry. What I do know is that I love games, and I hope they still stick around in a way that can eventually put its employees and its potential in a better place.

I like the Prey music in the outro. Pls make a video about prey

Nah don’t worry man, I studied in 2013-2017, wasn’t able to get a job at the office, was freelancing, working at a warehouse, in September 2021 I finally got a job at a studio. Also if you are born in a country that has English as its first language, then it will be much easier for you to get a job in the industry, cmon, if I as a Russian, was able to get a job in a AAA studio, then you definitely will be able to because you are from US/UK. Also I studied in Netherlands, a country where you have couple of studios with total of around 700 seats, meanwhile there are around 900 graduates every year… yea times are tough, but just don’t give up 💪🏻

i feel like gaming peaked at 2017-2018

I miss the 360 era so much. It's pretty much peak gaming. Modern Console libraries are lacking so much in selection & quality. Devs should never stop taking inspiration from previous gens. Timeless games don't need hyper realistic graphics. Some of the best games have unique art styles, unique damage effects, smaller more interactive environments, destructible objects, physics like effects or funny cartoonish or absurd type of effects. Anytime i say this someone in the comments always says: "umm well we have indie games" but my point is we need this 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 it might not take so long to make a game, not 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 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..

Man! i'm thinking about this all day and i'm really mad too... i'm was about to sell my ps5 and then gta 6 trailer dropped. maybe after that🙁

I don't think the entirety of the industry as awhole will come tumbling down, but more so the unrealistic ever growing bubble of infinite growth that the big game publishers are chasing. They have to get more profits than last year, make a even bigger game, gain more employee's to make said bigger games. I've been anticipating this for years now and it's just now that they're reaching the cirical point of the bubble now popping because obviously you can't have more profits each and every single year and be bigger than before so consistently. To them, they're making a product rather than an actual game, like a live service to drip feed tiny bits of content in over months while paying little money. I'd also argue that Cyberpunk 2077 made celebrety apperances in games seem more appealing since Keanu Reeves inclusion got so much attention thank Death Stranding (at least from what I've seen). I'm thankful we at least have indie games to fall back on since almost every game release has to be slop we've had in the past 10 years with a new fresh spray of paint, sure you occasionally get asset flips or just mediocore experiences from that side of the industry, but I've felt so much more of an impact from them compared to AAA games in ages. I just hope at the end of the day that the real victims of this pop who are the employees get a more stable and better working conditions that don't put them through similiar stress as a military soldier and doesn't fire them 6 months later because the CEO needs to save up more money for their 6th mansion.

that sucks

I agree on Bobby being a goblin, but Tim Sweeney? Anyway the video's great.

You say video game crash like it's a bad thing but i think soon it's going to be necessary. When i say "i love video games" i'm not at all thinking of modern AAA, it's changed, it's something i don't care about, it's a human suffering factory farmed into making crap games and i need it to stop. If AAA were to crash and die right now video games don't end, we're still left with thousands of indie teams and individuals making their passion projects, Lethal Company still comes out, Palworld, Penny's Big Breakaway and everything of a lower budget would still exist, Annapurna's not going anywhere, Steam doesn't go away, the only thing a "crash" would do is scare the live service obsessed suits and investors out of the industry. Of course we would lose an insane number of corporate video game developers in the process but many would form into small teams and make smaller games, it would be the 90's again with smaller budgets and no requirement to sell 5 billion copies to make a profit or keep players perpetually online buying mtx. Metal Gear Solid 1 had a budget of $10 million and video games have only gotten easier to make and easier to buy and play, you don't need $300 million to impress people, you just need a good idea. One last thing from the latest DF podcast, when Remedy wanted to make a smaller cheaper game they made Control for €30 million, those are the games we need right now in AAA, smart, concise, well designed, well budgeted, limitations breed creativity, excess breeds excess.

nah this video will age like fine wine crash will happen

AA is probably the best now triple A was probably the equivalent to AA studios like 15-20 years ago I only play games from that time period

People forget, and repeat again.

Don’t forget XBOXs ban on curvy women in games. That’s the worst part. Everybody has forced overtime, cry more. But make me stare at that Fable Girl or that Hellblade 2 thing… that’s a crime against humanity and makes the Baby Jesus cry.

CORRECTION: Triple A gaming will be dead in a year. Indie devs will carry on like they always do. Gamers will CONTINUE to play games, just NOT the Triple A ones, like how it was for us back in the 80s and 90s. While muscle jocks keep making fun of us like they always do.

All this decay is not only in videogames, but in the whole world. This only shows how bad this greedy, individualist and mediocre generation is affecting everything

It's the entire human experience that's crashing.

VIVA LA INDIE ❤ I think from this crash, those who have been laid off will rise from the ashes and many newer, smaller studios will come of this that will be able to create great, new content. Currently large studios are too top heavy. Too many execs that want to line their pockets and would rather outsource their work to the lowest possible bidder instead of build talent within, but this has also proven to be horrible because equality drops off dramatically.

@Proxidist you know the indie games and double AA games are doing very well you should try indie games.

Actually, out of all the ‘bad’ games from 2023 I actually am having a fun time playing The Walking Dead Destinies. No matter how the graphics, cutscenes and voicelines in this game are.

I've learned to finally accept the gaming industry is no longer going back to its glory days. From too many gamers morphing into political extremists, to people working in the industry who seem hellbent on ruining everything that made gaming development a grueling yet satisfying payoff for all the hard work. While it's true and I've accepted games these days are not the same I grew up on so I can be a bit biased in my tastes, it's undeniable how objectively awful the gaming culture is nowadays. The pure, innocent and fun-loving culture that gamers made died off in 2014 when the 8th Gen consoles arrived. From Xbox One's awful reveal to gamergate to gaming development prioritizing graphics and power over story and gameplay, etc. I will gladly stay behind in my time while the gaming industry moves on towards its self-destructive future. I'll stay here and keep playing my Halo 3, Borderlands 2, Mass Effect 3, L4D2, Black Ops 1, etc. Hell! I'll build myself a bunker hidden underground and live the rest of my days in my gaming memories (which we're objectively better than now) as the gaming industry collapses into another crash behind me. Thank you for coming to my TedTalk

I'll be back in a year to write another comment when gaming is still alive

I suspect these high octane triple A games are a fairly safe bet for the large companies. Personally I don't really play for the graphics, I enjoy the stories and the gameplay loops that good games have. I don't really buy Indies, I have stardew that I live, and a few I guess you would call them single A titles like factorio and Satisfactory. It would be cool if someone like capcom could make more single a games. Like imagine they went though and gave something like Dino Crisis the look of the original resident evil remake. Even Sony could do a slightly lower budget spiderman, maybe a side scroller with comic book cut scenes and a good artstyle like spiderverse(obliviously not as good). Something like starfield vs fallout 4, I honestly don't care for the increased graphical detail, I'd rather explore a lovingly crafted super market than 'generic science base'.

I'm hoping for a crash will fix everything but I doubt it gaming's dead been watching it since the '90s when I grew up, 30 years nothing has changed

Tim Sweeney has never played a game before? He was big into arcades and consoles back in his day, though he downplays his interest today. Not to mention he was critical in the development of the Unreal Engine and Unreal, a game that heavily influenced many game developers and inspired many games since its creation.

Honestly after GTA 6 I think 2026 will be the here and I hope that's not true but I think that's going to happen

Gaming will change for the better on its own. Unless I save it.

New AAA games are dying/dead. But it won't crash like we need. It will just keep getting worse and worse and more corporate and casual.

Gaming in the past was like anime on tv . The corporations , based themselves in how many viewers saw the anime of the time . Gaming had some degree of freedom when choosing the content . Now , the liberty is censored or must be “competitive” to have green light . You can see that the narratives and story telling got degraded in recent times . We are just either playing remasters or playing political related topics .

no

ET was one of the first games I ever played. I'm glad I played better games like Pitfall, Pole Position, and Pac Man before that or I might have thought video games were terrible. As for why celebrities are all over voice acting now, you can trace that all the way back to Robin Williams voicing the Genie in Aladdin. Before that, voice acting was seen as C list work that nobody doing well would touch. Now, it's seen as basically easy money. Yeah, they don't get paid as much as an actual movie or tv show, but you don't have to go through all the prep of filming either. Just show up, go in the studio, record your lines, and leave.

I lived through the crash of 1983. It primarily affected the console market in North America, and it left a vacuum that Nintendo swept in to fill a few years later. By 1983, I was mostly playing games on the Atari 8-bit computers. Though I could see the console side of things collapsing, the portion of the market focused on the 8-bit computers kept going for a few more years. E.T. was a high profile failure and is the symbol of the crash, but both the console and home computer markets were flooded with shovelware, and this problem affected the entire industry, from indie to AAA. I see some parallels today. Failed AAA releases occur with depressing regularity, and this problem is worse than it was in 1983. There is also a lot of indie shovelware, but then, there has always been a lot of indie shovelware. However, there is so much information online that the shovelware is easier to avoid than it has ever been, and the quality products get noticed. This is a bright spot in the industry, and indie and mid-sized developers that focus on quality are likely well positioned to weather the storm. Early access provides a way for indie developers to fund promising games, though there is also a problem with games that languish in early access forever and never get finished. If gamers become a lot more choosy about early access, a correction or a crash could happen in this area. There are also major differences between now and 1983. The industry is fully globalized, so if there is a crash, it is likely to be worldwide. The industry is also a lot bigger. If a crash is happening, I think an often-ignored part of the gaming audience will determine its severity. In 1983, there were a lot of "casual" gamers - those for whom gaming was an occasional pastime and who weren't fully obsessed or committed to the hobby. It wasn't unusual then for families with children to have an Intellivision or an Atari 2600, but they usually only had a few cartridges. When the industry got flooded with crap, many of these people got turned off, and the consoles went into the closet where they collected dust and provided shelter for earwigs. Nowadays, the casual audience is back in force. Companies are producing shovelware associated with familiar IP that they can flog to low information gamers. Mobile games are peddling microtransactions to people who don't remember the time before such things existed. AAA studios are producing flashy but shallow games, and people happily buy them. As long as regular people keep buying the crap that the industry is trying to sell them, the severity of a crash will be limited, even if hard core gamers abandon AAA games in favor of the indies. At present, we may be seeing a correction due to the world getting back to normal after COVID, companies adjusting after having overestimated the size of the market for live service games, and a few prominent flops. However, if the casual audience gets bored and turns to other forms of entertainment, as happened in North America in 1983, then there will be a crash of epic proportions.

Blackrock is responsible

Dead? Not really... Too many games to play, old and new 👌🏼😁

My boy needs some new- ne- New Blood interactive

I kid you not, my brother was working for a small business for four years and they laid him off two weeks before he got married. Never get convinced your employer gives a damn about you. To them you are a expensive contract. Nothing more, nothing less. The only good thing about all the boomers retiring is a much smaller labor pool available, which means that people have more bargaining power. I think the recent success of the UAW union in the US is a good sign of things to come. Chaos isn't usually fun in the moment but it can damn well create good opportunities sometimes.

Gaming is all about rushing the product to please stock holders and then nickel and diming the players gaming sucks now

On your Jak 4 comment, TLOU 3 would also make them money as well. Regardless of where they go, Naughty Dog will make money off of a product. The difference is how much they can. In terms of their top 10 best selling games, Jak isn't anywhere on that list. Crash Bandicoot (the original) still holds their #5 spot for most sold copies. Uncharted and TLOU tho? Every single entry (minus lost legacy for uncharted) is in the top 10. When they went to remastering/remaking the games on PS5 they didn't go for Jak and Daxter. They did Uncharted 4 and both TLOU games because their both the top 3 best selling Naughty Dog products.

It’s funny how ps2 game sequel is release next year. However if we look at ps5 it takes years. They shouldn’t even focus on realism.

You are right. I tell you why this is happening over and over and no one is saying this. All the game Company's dont use there own money to make games and if there ESG score is high enough they will get a much lower interest rate ( atm with out a high ESG score it is 8.500 % pa in Mar 2024 and with a high ESG can cut that by 1/2 or more ) and there is $7 trillion in the fund for this so dont count it to stop happening for 30 more yrs. Allso when a Big Company lose money they just wright it off on tax and let the small Co,s that they hire fail ! So is a win win for them and a lose lose for us !

2023 was the biggest year for gaming ever. I'm sorry...what? What came out? A new GTA? A new console? Some amazing new tech? No. Bauldur's Gate 3. That's pretty much it. WOW. Yeah gaming NEEDS to crash. If it doesn't we're going to be stuck in this cesspool forever. Look what came from the last crash. A Renaissance. That's what we need now. The thing is we won't get it.

Good they haven't learned their lesson yet Never trust Blackrock or sweet baby

If you like AAA(A) games then your time with gaming is coming to an end, but if you like indies or AA games then you're all good.

With interest rates rising investor are not willing to pump this gaming companies like in the pas,t add to that disappointment from gamers and we are heading to a corporate gaming crash. The main survivors will AA studios and Indie developers, is game over.

Nah. Big game companies that need half a billion in profit to break even might be. But Steam is going to be filled with smaller developers taking advantage of all of that lack of competition. It only takes $100 to open the door If you're a console player, well....time to join the master race or embrace your phone for your gaming.

My guy you gotta play Returnal. Easily the best game Sony has put out. Feels like an outlier amongst the other Sony ps5 games honestly.

Only triple A game i play are valve game it is amazing game But even if i got held hostage to play call of duty warzone i rather play indie game that make me suffer a bullet heck kind of game

Lost trust in COD when they switched Warzone 1 off, could have happily paid a COD+ subscription to put toward keeping the servers running, but they never asked. Apex Legends keeps removing fan-favourite LTM modes + Arenas and solos removed instead of just switching LTM's into a now permanent mode due to player response. Yes it's a "Limited Time Mode", but they can easily change that. Making unnecessary barriers between gamers enjoyment and the games they play. Too much focus, way too much focus on skins for free to play games.. That's just my issue with those games. Fortnite needs a proper first person mode, still not happened.. I'd love a first-person zero build mode. This is just my issue with some free-to-play games. The other game I played Elden Ring, I felt didn't hit the mark like Bloodborne, Dark Souls and Sekiro for me. Elden Ring bosses are more spamming elemental stuff repeatedly.. Instead of feeling like the awesome boss fight styles of previous FromSoftware games. Apologies for mega rant, but I feel we're just in a really weird time of gaming.

Time to go back to college and get an Engineering degree.

A big driver of the crash is the end of covid. However China's economy is heading towards a depression after the Evergrande bubble just burst. Expect a lot of markets to get worse with China's purchasing power diminishing. However, on the flip side at least some of the race to embrace China's illiberalism might be tempered by this. On the even flippier side. India is set to replace China as the next big cheap labor market to try to fully industrialize. If you're looking to buy into that wave early, maybe start making an Indy action game with roots in Indian culture? =\

This year we celebrate!! Killing Floor 3 is coming this year

it will die, yes. but i'm hopeful that it will resurrect to something better.

Hybrid goblins took me out lol 😂

Triple A gaming will be dead. Not retro or indie titles.

There isn't a crash. The thing is alot of money was invested during covid because covid made people pay attention to video games and it made the Market jump. But the market went back down once people could go back outside. So it's really just the market correcting itself. Sure games are expensive. But our expectations are really high also. If a game doesn't meet the expectation, it gets destroyed and takes down the people that creates them also. There may be some games canceled but there will always be more games. You have to vote with your wallet. If you keep buying bad games then they will keep making bad games. Just make sure your expectations are realilisitic.

Browsing through ps4 store atm, just depressing bro... just depressing... ps2 games were 1000000000000 times better than these modern trash games being released nowadays. Honestly sad. We may get a good game here and there but rare.

Yea 2023 was mid for games

I'm gonna stick with Factorio and Faster than Light.