>>716242731
>Looking at the control they have over mainstream gaming press and hiring at the bigs, they don't see it that way. They think they're winning.

The house of cards is coming tumbling down. Yeah, they had control over things for a while, but not anymore.

AAA market is shrinking naturally, because kids aren't playing them so you don't get new blood to replace old, and the content of said AAA is sterile and bland or weird social messaging.

I believe the end-game is going to be massive amounts of outsourcing to foreign studios, which means that these Vidya game jobs are NEVER coming back. Like 100,000 video game jobs just gone forever and never returning. They'll have to find other companies to parasitize and shape to their own needs and wants.

https://globalnews.ca/news/11270443/microsoft-layoffs-july-2025/