Thread 718321572

I'm a teacher and all of my students still play on PS4s, Nintendo Wiis, and the 3DS. Are home consoles too expensive for the modern family?

>>718321572 (OP)
Always has been

>I'm a teacher
and I'm sorry for your loss.

>>718321572 (OP)
They've been priced out of the housing and jobs too lmfao

>>718321572 (OP)
Yes. Too much money to work as a christmas gift.

>>718321572 (OP)
Give the girls the gift of modern gaming in exchange for sexual favors.

I thought kids just play in their phones now
My nephews are all itoddlers and when they’re not watching slop they’re on roblox

This isn't new
Was playing a Genesis into the late 90s early 2000s until my family got a PC

>>718321572 (OP)
I just spent a whopping ten bucks on a game the other day, felt like such a high roller.

Those are hand me downs and thrift pickups
The modern family is content to give their kids a phone and a tablet (which they pretend is for school) and that is the extent kids get electronics at all these days

>>718321572 (OP)
have you put the 10 commandments up yet, lil bro?

Kids today never experienced the graphics arms race like millennials did. 30 years ago graphics and hardware were super important and a huge selling point and basically if you didn't have the latest shit you were poor and fucking stupid. Kids today have grown up with "good enough" graphics since they were born. There's no real meaningful difference between a PS4 and PS5 game honestly, Spider-Man 2 having instant loading times compared to Spider-Man 1 really isn't that big of a deal, at the end of the game both games are incredibly similar.

>>718321572 (OP)
>Just pay out the ass for a console with no games

>>718322229
What if that was the game all along? :)

>>718321572 (OP)
How young are we talking? Because it's the parents that are being priced out if the kids aren't old enough to work

>>718321572 (OP)
Price is probably a reasonable factor to assume, but I would assume the biggest culprit is the peer pressure in their age group to migrate to crap like Fortnite and Roblox and just never leave. If they have one platform that can access those, these kids aren't gonna be too concerned about keeping up with new hardware

>>718321572 (OP)
you teach poor kids. that's it.

im poor

>everything up through ps3 era is pretty much emulatable
>game pass has free trials and worst case scenario like $10 a month to go through a bunch of stuff
>free games are free
>steam sales
>piracy

only when its some game locked to consoles, not on pc, and not on game pass is it annoying.

>>718322221
I was thinking about this the other day, how the technological arms race was a major selling point back then and provided a means to introduce and talk about new games with people, like "ah man, you gotta see what they've come out with now." Now the medium has shifted more into gadgetry where it either compromises on the graphics aspect like Nintendo and hasn't had the same luster since the Wii, or with periphery purchases like VR that a lot of people don't want to add to the existing costs of the systems themselves, nor are they all that necessary or pivotal.

>>718321572 (OP)
>I'm a teacher
another millennial retard teaching kids about brown people and trannies, if kids grow up gay and retarded and tech illiterate it's all on (You)
I bet your female skank colleagues are even worse

>>718321572 (OP)
lol kids just play roblux and minecraft
they dont care about some AAA slops

>>718321572 (OP)
>I’m a teacher
Sure you are anon
>all of my students still own
That’s unhealthy. I hope you get caught before you can abuse them.
Get help

>>718322692
Sex.

>>718321572 (OP)
>all of my students still play on PS4s, Nintendo Wiis, and the 3DS.
You must teach in a poor as dirt school if this is the case

>>718321572 (OP)
It's been the case for decades, why do you think all of them play mobile games or games that are mobile friendly like Roblox and Fortnite?

>>718322692
>>718321572 (OP)
>>718321984
This just tells me that video games are going to be left in the dust soon, a relic of millennials as the television was to boomers. Why would kids give a fuck about video games if all they ever played is Roblox and phone slop? The knowledge is no longer getting passed down and the standards are inevitably lowered.

>>718321572 (OP)
>People stuck on ps4/xbone just how kids were trapped in the sixth generation of consoles for a long time
Grim, especially considering how much better the output of games was back then

>>718321572 (OP)
Parents made arguments about super nintendo and nes being basically the same thing and that paying for the new one was stupid. Well, nowadays that argument kinda holds water because graphics have stagnated. And not to mention the fact that most kids just play free to play games and mobile games that don't need demanding hardware in the first place.

>>718323560
In the past 10 years video game records have been constantly broken. Most sold game, most sold console, highest yearly earnings, highest concurrent players, highest subscription numbers, fastest selling this and that. Where have you been?

>>718322692
Stop what? I wasn't even doing anything weird!

>>718321572 (OP)
Idk but this is great. We get to shoe them the great games of yesteryear that are affordable ($0).
Real talk, I'm dating a Zoomer and other than Roblox most of her favorite games arent centralized to a console or platform, their all iphone games or flash games off coolmathgames and whatnot. Truly a versitile generation for gaming and who don't act high and mighty coming from 1st party devs or as console exclusives.

>>718323560
I disagree. It might be how youtube or streaming ate television cable. We'll still watch videos made to convey stories, but "tv shows" or series may evolve as a medium. Gaming is in that right now. Even if Stop Killing Games doesnt work the public more than ever is agknowladging what bullshit the companies are trying to pull.

>>718323560
Home platform vidya's simply returning to its roots of being a hobby for nerds with too much money and free time, as soon as it stops being profitable we'll go back to having more and more genuinely great passion projects made for the love of creation and sharing it with others.

>>718321572 (OP)
Modern games aren't significantly better than "old" games from a couple generations ago so not only is it much cheaper but you'd be playing games which are at worst in line with a modern mobile game quality and at best exactly the same quality as a modern game

>>718324015
Production costs and development times have also risen in equal measure. The industry isn't exactly booming right now. We've seen layoffs, studio closures, deslistings in the same period. All the major companies are making remakes because anything else is too risky

Ps5/Switch 2 and even Steam games haven't come up with any ideas that revolutionizes any genre or game really, we're at a convergence with innovation in games right now. The most that has changed is that Visa and Mastercard are making Hgames and porn games (ontop of many many false positives in the horror genreand other graphic kinds of content) vanish from storefronts.

>>718325380
The problem is innovation requires tech we simply do not have yet, you can't exactly go further than "ultra-detailed ultra-realistic graphics" without the kind of hardware that can support something that's straight out of sci-fi, like truly open game that uses AI to create infinite possibilities for player interactivity, or fully immersive VR that'll work seamlessly with ALL the relevant senses.

I got each of my five nephews an xbox360 and a ps3. If they want something more then they can mow lawns and babysit or whatever. I'm not buying them shit, and I told my sisters not to buy them anything. They need to learn how to hustle like we did.

>>718324015
>In the past 10 years video game records have been constantly broken.

>Most sold game
Minecraft (2010) 350 million copies

>most sold console
PlayStation 2 (2000) 160 million consoles

>highest yearly earnings
Grand Theft Auto V (2013) $8.6 billion

>highest subscription numbers
World of Warcraft (2004) peaked with 12.5 million active subscribers during Wrath of the Lich King

>>718325679
Seems like the past 10 years has been pretty lame and gay for video game records. Interesting.

>>718321572 (OP)
It's been that way since I was a kid. I never bought games until I had my own job.

If you really wanna gauge how much gaming has shrunk, keep in mind that EVERYTHING here was a massive meteoric success

Seventh gen
>Nintendo sells 255 million consoles
>Sony sells 167 million consoles
>Microsoft sells 81 million consoles

Ninth gen
>Nintendo sells 152 million consoles
>Sony sells 75 million consoles
>Microsoft sells 29 million consoles

>>718321572 (OP)
Yes. Consoles themselves are expensive and games are getting even more expensive. We're already at $70 and if the industry tries to follow Nintendo then they'll be $80 soon and if I asked for multiple $70-80 games as a kid then my parents would have told me to fuck off if it wasn't my birthday or Christmas. I'll also bet money that the PS6 and new Xbox will be $700 minimum. You already saw people defending the price with the PS5 Pro and I've even seen people start retroactively defending the $600 PS3. People are starting show they're alright at paying that much for a console and they'll definitely do it if they think they can get away with it.

>>718322221
It feels like the need to keep up with things in general has dissolved with the internet now that everyone is in their little walled garden.

>>718325491
I only agree to a degree with graphics and implimenting LLMs in gsmes in real time. There are many genres of games that could be improved on or even gimmickly tweaked for a fresh experience with mechanics. Not everything has been invented or tried yet, but it seems we're content with that. Donkey Kong Bananaza with destructable environments isnt the most creative thing on the planet but it sure seems to be the only thing relatively new going on. I heard Death Stranding 2 went full Ubisoft with connecting tower missions over your huge world you have to traverse.

>>718325679
I dont understand how people are shilling Switch 2 saying its breaking records. I'm assuming it must be some form of wordplay that is stretching the truth of the situation.

>>718321572 (OP)
Its the same at work, man.
Even normies in the break room say they still play ps4 because ps5 has no games.
No bait, really happens.

I played on a SNES up until 2002 (t. born in 1992)

>>718327667
poor moment

>>718326702
ignore switch zealots. anyone arguing about sales instead of the quality of the product is a fucking retard and not worth your time