>>713278848
cope
>>713278912
L take
>>713279461
make it 6th-7th gen
early 7th gen they kept doing the same shit from 6th gen
>>713279639
DeS alone mogs any single game you can think of from the ps2 library
besides 99% of the ps2 library is trash and it's the same 10-15 usual suspets like ico and sotc being parroted over and over again by people who didn't even play them
>>713279968
nope
>midnight launch
was there, gone
>physical games
was there, soon to be gone
>games were pretty much complete at launch
nice to have patches but it's not critical, games 100% playable off disc
>backwards compatibility
gone
>new IPs month after mont
gone
>everyone having mics and talking in online games
gone and killed by discord
>free online
gone

while I agree on some things like microtransactions, DLCs (as if they didn't ever make them before as standalone physical releases) most of the trends you think about didn't really start until late 7th-early 8th gen
>>713281298
I will just use an english patch
>>713281667
>before the suits fully took control
what most people fail to realize is that the suits were there all along, gaming was already more than mainstream with ps1 selling more than 100mil+ units
money doesn't grow out of thin air but there's a massive difference between investing 1-50mil for a ps1-ps3 game and $500mil+ for a ps5 game, there's literally no room for error in this case while the former approach still allowed some publishers to make experimental shit that most likely flopped and is now remembered fondly
you will never experience XBL arcade tier games ever again because nobody wants to risk making them

it's enough to look at the output of publishers like rockstar and naughty dog, like you can clearly see when all of it dowhnill, a cadence like in the 2000s-early 2010s is pretty impossible today with games like gta6 costing up to $1bil

>>507531034
true
if you look at 9th gen games it's the same open world ubisoft style shit and linear moviegames from the 7th that we had 20 years ago
for fucks sake minecraft and gtav are still relevant, like what the fuck
this has to do with development costs and that the amount of people who actually play games (mainly 6-35yo) is kinda tanking especially in the west
it's a male hobby even with all the gay femminist shit, women just don't like games, and this is proven time and time again
the thing is that I think most publishers hoped that VR would get more adoption as the next big thing in gaming but it never did so here we are stuck remastering 7th gen games and passing them as new