>Nintendo causing a price increase to all AAA games as a whole making the hobby way too expensive
>Every console that isn't Nintendo isn't making any good first party games causing 0 competition, Nintendo who's actually making good games are making fewer games compared to their output in previous consoles and doing as many tactics to charge the consumer as much as possible
>Steam and Itchio are forced remove games without prior notice because payment processors having a monopoly and threatening them, Steam has such a big userbase that people will keep using it regardless and Itchio will basically die just like how when tumblr decided nuke porn in it, destroying a big part of the indie scene since westerners usually used it to gain more profits from their games, the payment processor deal has also caused multiple japanese companies to shut down
>VR hasn't progressed past Valve's attempts due to the high costs that come with actually making a good game for it
>The Stop Killing Game situation proves even more than ever how crooked the video game industry is, with Video Games Europe actively spreading misinformation about the movement and most likely being the senders of the anonymous letter sent to the heads of the movement with a bunch of fake claims to try to shut down the movement
>A guy can apparently get arrested just for reviewing pirate consoles despite having nothing to do with the companies that produce it
Will this hobby ever go back to being consumer friendly? Like this isn't even mentioning all the kickstarter scams or the multitude of studios that have shut down either because publishers actively fucking the devs or because the devs were extremely lazy scammer which has been rapidly increasing