I'm pretty sure the censorship spree is going to help videogames.

>>717693680 (OP)
Zoomers aren't doing much of anything, they're kind of fucked

Very based, good job zoomers

zoomers do not buy video games they only play fortnite, roblox, and occasionally this FOTM's eceleb friendslop

>>717693680 (OP)
This will kill nintendo. zoomsnoys must be stopped.

>>717693680 (OP)
we on the blox and nite bruh I ain't spend a dime and I get all I need fr

>>717693680 (OP)

The kids are alright

>>717693680 (OP)
They unironically play a lot of older games and older mmo private servers.
I've seen several zoomer "retro" mmorpg youtube channels spawn recently and all of them are getting great views.
They also primarily prefer older 80's and 90's music.

I think they know just as we do that modern media is just garbage and has nowhere near the amount of passion, innovation, and SOVL that older media has.

>>717693680 (OP)
The prices of games has gone up, everything is broken on the full release. But it was so worth it. Other studioey're in ... and more and more students who can't even properly read or write. And I'm sitting here like ... thank god I'm not reliant on those guys to pas just release slop and don't finish it, and that's a no go. I don't want to be a doomer, but it really feels like after Gen Z a new generation of degenerates is being raised. Kids with their own smartphoocietal release, and nobody cans from the day they can use it, watching endless amounts of low quality shit videos, while browsing endlessly through TikTok, having the attention span of a gold fish ... nd in my own country a lot of sbsolute bargain. But I also have 100% confidence that the game will eventually come out in a fully completed state. I played a lot in the first release, and then stopped playing as much with the 2 major updates because I'm savin get jobs. A truly baffling turn of events that sales have dropped.Yeah I bought Hades full price post release, and then whenever Hades 2 dropped in EA, I bouneg it forfactors come into play as well. Poverty, bad eating habits (overweight), parents that are never home, ideologized child care services, school classes whereFor example i can use Google family link to shut of my kids devices and I have hard router level blocks to stop them trying to get stuff on the sneak. And they can't install anything without my permission 90% of the younglings don't even speak the language of the country thy or care for me when I'm old. It's depressing.I had to ban my kids from YouTube completely and Roblox

Fortnite is VERY iffy one but its a social thinghters sim spray paint sim. Which directly translated him into him having a go at me for a legit fire hazard and helping me build a cool looking base on dune awaking lol Honestly ban the rot they will get over it.

If you need help with tools to use to help enforcement of the bans just DM me.

It's almost like they don't have any money.

>>717693976
No they're actually fucking impoverished.

yes I'm crashing this retarded ass industry with no survivors, NO REFUNDS

>>717694039
as a regular /vr/tard I know that there are a lot of younger gamers asking about classic game series and forgotten games. I think we can thank the Youtuber essayfags for creating awareness about these old games in a way that they could appreciate it. Plenty of older games get revived from an essay and word of mouth from there. Without the internet I'm sure the younger generation would consume modern slop much more. Music is the same in that a lot of it is trying to remake the magic of the past. With video games we are able to make some motion in this space with the internet giving us a way to share old games and ideas with the younger gen. So in essence, we can thank the Angry Video Game Nerd for putting passion into his original series, which became the catalyst for other essayists and characters to promote old timey games to the youth.

>>717693680 (OP)
Kid status
>owned
Nothing
>happy
Oof

>>717693680 (OP)
>raise base price on games
>don't raise wages
>people buy less games
How could this happen?

>>717693680 (OP)
My little bro pirates everything ever since he got a PC. Kids have less money than ever now, they cant waste it like we used to.

>>717693748
being fucked is a millennial thing tell them to quit stealing our gimmick
the bastards

>>717693680 (OP)
>In a June 24th report from the Wall Street Journal, Circana found both online and retail purchases among ages 18-to-24 dropped by 13% from January to April compared to the year prior. In particular, Circana found that young zoomers were spending nearly 25% less per week on video games than in 2024. While purchases for accessories, small appliances, technology, and “total general merchandise” had all dropped with young adults, video gaming took the lead in Circana’s data. The drop off was enormous for 18-to-24-year-old gamers, as data on other age groups revealed a minor, single-digit decline well under 5%.

here's a part of the article, zoomers dont buy games like the generations before because a lot of them dont have a lot of money, also 80 eurodollars for a shitty broken game that will be at half the price a few months later is not worth it
Zoomers are pretty based, maybe with them and Gen Alpha we can crash the gaming industry

>>717693680 (OP)
They are playing the worst of the worst fucking ''games'' instead.
f2p slop and gatcha.

>>717693680 (OP)
They cost $80 and over a $100 if you want all of the content.
Everyone knows a recession is about to happen.

>>717698154
>2 more weeks bro!!!

>>717696489
That's the funny thing. The whole original joke of the first few AVGN videos was James laughing at the idea that someone would still be mad at a shitty old video game nearly 20 years later. He had no idea it would strike such a genuine chord with people.

>>717693680 (OP)
with what money unc

Good.

>>717694056
Dmed u thx

Guess that's what happens when you buy a 1000 $ phone every two years

Quick, we need to add more microtransactions!!!!

>>717693680 (OP)
Wait, doesn't this mean they just play free GAAS gacha slop instead?

>>717698204
I am truly confused why I keep seeing this phrase spammed as an apparent non-sequitur.

>>717693680 (OP)
They're too busy watching vtubers play games, and giving them all their money.

How mysterious.
- man guillotined

>>717694039
Because its something actually different to them, they are obviously tired of modern realism same-old same-old

This just means kids are buying MTX instead of traditional games.

>>717698561
Yes. They buy Fortnite bux and Robux

>>717698580
the rescission will happen in may, no june, july is the month, soon!

The Western game industry engineered their own doom by pushing GaaS, live service, and battle passes instead of new games

>>717698580
newfag

>>717693797
they watch streamers play them

>>717699021
They all use Unreal Engine too.

Are the big free to slops still growing
Like Fortnite must be in the downslope right?

>>717693680 (OP)
Yeah they're jobless and fucking broke.

>>717693680 (OP)
why would i theres been nothing good for years
i would rather play fanmade kino for fucking free instead of jew slop which is so boring they should be paying me to play it

>>717698838
How do you know MTX aren't included under "videogames" in this chart? It doesn't specify whether it means digital or physical games, or whether it includes virtual goods.

>>717699121
*it would be funny if the game companies basically taught zoomers never to pay money up front for games and then when they grow out of the one free to slop they liked at 15 they just refuse to ever buy a real game.

>>717699121
The top 10 games of PSN are all free to play. Genshin Impact, ZZZ, Star Rail, Wuthering Waves, Fortnite, Roblox, CoD Warzone, etc.

>>717693680 (OP)
Prestige Beauty bros! we are so back!

I don't see many zoomers go out on weekends either. Towns and cities are empty on Friday nights now.

>>717693680 (OP)
Let me guess, that's just physical disks

zoomers are a doomed generation.

>>717699061
lurk moar

>>717693680 (OP)
My three zoomer siblings all ignore video games. One of them occasionally will play Fortnite but for the most part they've never wanted any console or a PC. Their phones are fine.
I gave them my old xbox one s and a few games like titanfall 2 and burnout paradise. Nothing. Not even sure they got played.

>>717694039
LOL they think old shows are trash

>>717699236
They can only track physical because Steam, app stores, and other retailers aren't giving them exact digital figures.

>>717699283
/fa/ and /frag/ won

Zoomers were never buying single player AAA games. Its always millennials buying those games. Zoomers only play free to play games like fortfight or call of duty warzone.

>>717698580
>>717698887
>>717699061
What's retarded is how "Two weeks to flatten the curve" turned into a "two more weeks" memephrase getting shit everywhere.

>>717699301
After covid a lot of places put retarded curfews and anti loitering rules that never went away. I can't even hang out at the park at night with a friend without a guard coming over asking if we're doing something illegal.

>>717699409
young or old zoomer? Mid to late twenty zoomers play lots of games

>>717699249
Yeah but are the biggest individual games like Fortnite still growing or is the industry just spreading the users around to more titles

Zoomers should get into emulation of old games.

>>717699301
Prices skyrocketed, and places are staffed by jeets and other single digit IQ browns. Imagine paying a fortune and trusting those people with your food.

>>717699535
Newsflash retard, old zoomers are now 28 and yes we buy consoles and triple A. Maybe young zoomers don't.

>>717699719
Live service games have their up and down periods. See MMOs like WoW. During new expansion or major patch everyone comes back. During filler season when the content is slow everyone leaves.

>>717698580
>I am truly confused why I keep seeing this phrase spammed as an apparent non-sequitur.
Which literally means it's working. 2 more weeks you fucking peasant goldfish.

>>717699781
ok? I'm saying the ones buying AAA single player games are mostly people in their mid 30s to late 40s. Most zoomers dont play those sorts of games. The studies have shown it is older people buying the big AAA games.

>>717699824
see
>>717699552

>>717699927
2 MORE POSTS

>>717699413
Old shows are trash. Television only got good in the early 2000s

>>717699781
There is no point buying a console without physical games.

>>717699725
They are, on their phones. Weird innit

People believe that this is real. And they are smug about it. Imagine.

>>717699996
Dramas, maybe. Comedy shows died in 2010s

>>717700012
can phones emulate ps2 and gamecube games now?

>>717700006
Yes but most zoomers around my age (24+) who game have a ps5 or equivalent.
>>717699912
Yea because millennials are a larger market in total numbers and much richer.

>>717699552
An effort to stomp memory out of the public. Did you see internetarchive purge all news articles from 2019-2022? What lockdowns?

>>717693680 (OP)
Why would you even buy media nowadays?
You could be a youtube zombie full-time. Even zoomers can find pirated movie sites. The best videogames can be emulated on an average laptop or even a phone.

>>717699971
Keep strawmanning.

I find it extremely hard to believe that zoomers are emulating old games. I have to imagine its a very small amount of turbo nerd zoomers doing that.

>>717700248
You're forgetting that young zoomers only use 1 device: their phone. It can play old emulated games and modern GAAS, that's what they play

>>717693797
Faggot

>>717699061
Not a newfag, the "two.more weeks" meme organically died on 4chan in early/mid 2023. Only fags saying it now are those who migrating from reddit to here after seeing all the epic memes

>>717700248
A lot of people figure out how to use emulators to play pokemon on their phone.

>>717693680 (OP)
zoomers are larpers, they enjoy things they didnt experience, they are fans of games/movies they never played or watched. they are all trend chasers.

>>717699301
Have you seen how much a single beer costs now?

>>717693680 (OP)
ACCELERATE

>>717693680 (OP)
According to this they're not really buying much of anything, why is it specifically the video game industry I should be concerned about?

>>717699121
no, basically only roblox and gacha are
effectively an entire generation of people addicted to gambling

>>717693680 (OP)
That's right, they spend all their cash on gachas.

>>717700248
why tho? NSO seems very popular and it has gamecube, snes and nintendo 64 emulators... also most retro games on steam also run thanks to emulation

>>717700540
two more weeks and the meme organically dies

>>717699927
Yeah, and see>>717699824
>NO ACKTUALLY
No actually the atomists you want learning this lesson aren't going to do that. They will keep spouting quantities and fact checking bullshit as they always have done. I'd say the phrase actually it originated from USSR, but again it would be pointless because now every news source uses the "two weeks" bullshit.. It was never about 2 weeks nor taking actually 2 weeks. It's a phrase to appease norrmie cattle into forgetting it so they can focus on the next "2 weeks crisis".

>poorest generation ever
>cost of living explodes
>WHY DONT THEY SPEND MONEY ON LUXURY GOODS?????????????????????

>>717700540
>redditor complains about redditors
lol

>>717700796
see
>>717700196

>>717699824
>>717700796
Your posts come across as the opposite position of what you intended, from what I can gather. You should try not being a smug cunt about it as that is the biggest factor in making you look like them.

we have other pastimes unc, like throwing dildos at women's basketball
you just don't get it

>>717698047
>>717693680 (OP)
No one takes Mat Pisscatella seriously considering all his posts are a stealth marketing tactic to sell consumer data from Nielsen, which itself has gotten a ton of scrutiny for not having accurate data in the first place

>>717693680 (OP)
When it costs 100 bucks for one fucking game that's also shit, why would they?

>>717701490
Based, like throwing bananas at darkies

>>717701490
That writer has crawled way too far up his ass.

>>717701490

>>717701490
That dildo incident garnered more attention than literally any female sporting even this year.

zoomers are poor okay? thats why we spend our money on sports better, gacha, and meme """investments""" instead

>>717693680 (OP)
It's because they're making fewer good games nowadays. Nothing good has come out this year aside from Deltarune.

>>717693680 (OP)
Zoomers mostly play free GaaS now. They don't have any money or jobs.

>>717699680
17, 15, and 14. The 14 plays Fortnite, the 17 got the Xbox.

>>717701126
Your posts come across as the opposite position of what you intended,
Make another useless fact checking post, atomist. I insist. You're befitting the world so much.

>You should try not
You replied thus negating your own suggestion and giving me another (you). I think I'm going to be even more of a smug hard hitter just because it works so well on people like you.

>>717701738
>Nothing good has come out this year aside from Deltarune.
This is why no one takes your generation seriously.

>>717693680 (OP)
>Average weekly spending, change from a year earlier for the four weeks ending April 2025
Remind me again what released during the four weeks ending April 2024. Nothing of value as I recall.

burnout generation
maybe watching tiktok for 17 hours a day wasnt a great choice LOL

>>717701490
acting like blacks is the only thing zoomers are good for.

>>717693680 (OP)
maybe if new games were actually good, they'd buy them

>>717701738
>Nothing good has come out this year aside from Deltarune.
The only reason you you fags have been barely limping around this long is because of 1-2 plagiarized musical numbers and furfaggotry. If discord didn't exists you wouldn't know what to do with yourselves other than spam threads on /v/ where you talk about nothing but shipfaggotry.

>>717693680 (OP)
maybe you live in a big city, but I don't, we mostly don't, but even if I moved back to Lucca, or Florence, fuck it Trento, the trend you can notice there, the trend I can notice in my hometown (10k inhabitants), the trend I can notice on a town populated by 60k people and at least 3 big mall centers is simple, baby zoomers are observed to be playing shitty phone games till they grow tired of it.

Toddler baby zoomers who grew up during the Fortnite era, switched to Raid Shadow Legends and other crappy Mossad sponsored bullshit.
Lucky ones, if any got a Toddlertendo Switch, well his dad got a Toddlertendo Switch to borrow to his kids.
At the age of 10 they are allowed to move to certain place, town plaza, 24/7, malls, neighbor towns etc.
During the day you'll barely see them outside, in the night it's plenty, 13yo girls dressing and acting like whores, their parents allow them to stay outside till 5am, sometimes for two or more days, they don't care about games, they care about shit music, drugs and alcohol, they don't know other meanings to have fun, games are not a mean to have fun cause they categorize themselves as not a children anymore.

>>717701883
>>717699409
Those are mostly Alphas not Zoomers, the oldest Zoomer is 28 and the youngest 17.

>>717693680 (OP)
wtf why aren't people buying bix nood 2: Jamals revenge: kill whitey edition?!?

>>717693680 (OP)
>No good games released people want to play
>Act surprised when the age group that's most probably the most informed about them don't buy them
I still remember how my millenial brother bought his girlfriend the shitty natsume harvest moon mockeries for her switch because he didn't know that wasn't actually the real harvest moon anymore.

>>717693680 (OP)
>Want people poor and childless
>Pikachuface.jpg when they don't buy products
Seriously maybe some alien really introduced works to old farts brains

Every popular game for zoomers is f2p

>>717694039
Because it's like seeing the Old World and what they lost. Alpha gen already have depressing thoughts though

>>717693680 (OP)
zoomers are piss broke

>>717693680 (OP)
lol

Life is hard as hell for zoomers. I imagine they're playing roblox, gachas, and other free to play games like fortnite and etc.

>>717694872
All the popular free-to-play games probably don't help.

>>717702385
>>717701920
actually it fulfills my possession fetish

>>717696489
>essayist

Most gayest thing ever.

>>717693680 (OP)
What the fuck is weekly spending on video games? Who is buying a game weekly? Oh, it's just talking about gacha and FTP shit, isn't it?
Also why is it only 18-24 year olds? When did that become the meaning of zoomer?

>>717704921
Probably buying skins/currency and whatnot.

>>717693680 (OP)
>the dominating /v/irgin narrative has always been that zoomers are ruining everything because they keep buying AAA slop and microtransactions
>Turns out they don't buy much of anything really
Makes me laff

Clearly the solution is raising video game prices to 100$

>>717693680 (OP)
Why would anyone buy videogames when they can get them for free from russian trannies.

>>717693976
They're playing f2p gacha more lol

>>717701490
>zoomers throw dildos at a sports game
>millenials lose their fucking grip on reality and begin sliding into their schizophrenic pocket dimensions

>>717700715
I think I read somewhere that Roblox already peaked in player count and is desperately trying to obfuscate that while it scrabbles for anyway out of entropy taking hold.

>>717693680 (OP)
based modern devs be seething, i guess millennials have some explaining to do on why they still buy modern crap

>>717693802
Nintendo is doing better than they ever have. They're immune to the zoomer curse.

>>717706713
Aren't those all switch 1 games?

>>717706713
all powered by millennial fans

>>717693802
Tendo probably has the oldest playerbase. They are all 30-40 yo manchildren.

>>717706805
No two of those are Wii U games

>>717704921
Aggregate spending of the entire population within that particular week, which averages out any individual buying once every several weeks, you utter fuckwit.

>>717693976
they are definitely not alright. they are all playing f2p gacha slop

>>717698887
if you look at the actual analytics we were in a depression or recession for most of the biden presidency. just because your favorite pundit didn't say it doesn't mean it didn't happen

>>717707359
Revenue all together. They aren’t buying microtransactions either.

No money to buy shit

>>717693680 (OP)
People aren't having children, so there are more old people than young now. To make matters worse the hypergamy among women is at the worst it has ever been, so many of these young women now date old men too. Zoomers, and especially male zoomers, are extra fucked more than any other generation before them.

No bitches, no money, no nothing.

>>717703158
not really. it sucks for sure but phone bills, car insurance, price of appliances and electronic have largely stayed the same since 2000 but i was only making $5.25 an hour at my first job. mcdonald's is paying $15 in some places. its not all bad and depending on how you live spending has not increased substantially. the big outliers are rent and groceries but zoomers are mostly living with their parents.

>>717701634
Was this a premonition for the Ukraine war ??

>>717707903
>phone bills, car insurance, price of appliances and electronic have largely stayed the same since 2000
What the fuck are you talking about?
>the big outliers are rent and groceries
You mean the shit you need to live?

>>717694039
Part of it is that you also need to define "zoomers," since by now, the oldest zoomers are around 29 years old. The older half are kids that grew up in times when their parents still had their old consoles lying around, had their own first consoles in the 6th Gen that was full of retro compilation discs like Sonic Mega Collection Plus, owned GBA SPs that were full of 5th Gen ports, and then often grabbed ports of the classics on XBLA for cheap

I'm not surprised those ones get into retro stuff, as they had already been immersed in it themselves, although I will give them some credit: they're completely undeterred when it comes to playing dead games or actually hosting shit. They'll play MMO private servers with less than a dozen people online, no problem. They will actually run old school AFPS games for their friend groups, being one of the biggest adopters of all the easier-to-host or free-to-host technologies that have come out in the meantime. Hell, for as much as /v/ whines about wanting Tribes Ascend back, zoomers were the only ones I ran into that were willing to actually to grab the game, install the GOTY Edition Restoration Mod, and use hosting services like Llamagrab (which have now gone defunct) to all play and host for free with great ping.

>>717708036
my phone bill and car insurance cost hasn't changed in 15 years.
>the shit you need to live
obviously that's why i included them but most zoomers are still living at home

>>717704867
the kids love those over the top, 40 minute long sappy 'muh childhood was shaped by (this N64 game)' kind of videos and eat up the old games. its a format that works

>>717708307
You are poorly informed
>obviously that's why i included them but most zoomers are still living at home
Because the cost is insanely high rent has doubled since 2020 alone. They should and would rather be moving out but cannot, saying its not all bad is not true. 15 dollars an hour is nothing.

>>717693680 (OP)
>>717693748
spbp
even excluding the zoomers who can't get jobs due to the market being fucked, pretty much every zoomer knows they'll never be able to get a house or retire, so they've stopped trying.