>>714124738
>HD. You can trace the decline of the industry by the adoption of HD graphics. it necessitates gigantic budgets and dev times, smaller teams get left in the dust. Those who'd have otherwise been small-time devs flood the indie scene, which produces a tidal wave of shovelware. Fast forward a few years, all of a sudden games cost millions to make but their value is debased to <$0.99. Only way out is to make a more expensive game and charge more, which makes the problem worse, and necessitates even bigger, more expensive games. Forever. Until it all collapses because nobody spends on anything but the same few F2P titles anymore.

I swear to fucking god, this man and the Nintendo 64 were the event horizon of the industry