With sales dropping and confidence declining, how close are we to the end of consoles as we know them?
  • @[email protected]
    25•7 months ago

    Sony shat over their consumers and are now in the process of trying the same for pc using the 5 exclusive games they still have as bait. Xbox effectively fucked their business model a few years ago with game pass and are now hemorrhaging money. Apple, who in their right mind plays on apple silicon, shit cant even run doom. Epic games store is only being kept afloat due to fortnite and their free games they give out like candy. Valve got so fed up with the bullshit that Microsoft churns out of its window shaped asshole that they created proton and are most likely the leading cause for the rise of the linux market share . All of the other publishers tried to make their own games stores and all of those are dead There are no games on chromebooks.

    Its not just the consoles its litterally everbody that is fucking dieing. The other platforms that could offer viable gaming experiences either dont support it (chromebooks) dont want to support it( apple xbox sony) or dont have enough power for fully fledged massive games (i dont think we’ll be seeing helldivers 2 on a phone like ever)

    Gaben does litterally nothing All the while the rest of the competition is buisy looking down the barrel of a loaded gun wondering why its not shooting

    • 𝕽𝖚𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍
      6•7 months ago

      Beautifully summarized.

      I think another factor will emerge: people are starting to realize that they’re paying $60 to rent a game. They don’t own it, and the game developer can shut it down at any time, and even if they don’t, it probably requires some online access for something, and the game stops working once the developer turns off those servers.

      I don’t think we’ll see a revolt, but companies will be forced through competition to allow rental models with less or no up-front cost. I think people will simply become less willing to pay $60 for a rental. At this point, I don’t know what happens to development studios, because they need seed funding to get to market. I think it’s already happening; as a very casual gamer, most of what I hear from the industry is pure-play game studios shutting down, or being acquired by corporations like Sony or Microsoft, who have other revenue streams they can redirect into speculative game development.

  • @[email protected]
    19•7 months ago

    No. I can do a Excel, play Factorio and rimworld at the same time all while watching anime for entertainment.

    And i don’t have to pay for online. And my pc isn’t locked behind some shitty schizo PSN account.

  • Hal-5700X
    7•7 months ago

    I don’t get the point of consoles today. They’re locked prebuilt PCs now. At this point, just build an PC. You can do more on a PC.

    • @[email protected]
      3•7 months ago

      There’s an economic network behind console: contrary to PC (which is more an abstract concept that no one owns) you can find console in your local general store: these stores put Sony/Microsoft/Nintendo brands/logo all around without the need for these three companies to directly pay them (PC/Notebook strictly places for general and office purpose). Before the ecommerce got the point is today, these stores putting free console advertising made a big difference. PC gaming industry was fragmented, also the main player in the PC sphere (Microsoft) had their own console which, due to conflict of interest, damped the huge storm of the PC gaming industry. The only company I am aware of, that consistently work in favor of PC gaming was Valve. But they were a digital store and had not much interest in the physical presence in general stores until SteamMachine/SteamController/SteamDeck

  • @JeeBaiChow
    5•7 months ago

    Sure, loving my ad infested windows 11!