Thread 719864712

Too much supply, not enough demand. There are WAY too many games, and not enough people to buy them. Gen Z purchasing power when it comes to games in the US is falling like a rock. People can barely afford living, so of course they stop buying games. And the older gen is not enough to keep all the studios afloat.

This is why we're seeing layoffs everywhere, studios closing down etc.

The market is increasingly focus on fewer games. As in, the big games will get all the attention, while smaller and mid sized games will be ignored.

Maybe gaming need to scale back to become affordable again. Stop AAAA projects and focus on smaller, cheaper games.

>>719864712 (OP)
>Stop AAAA projects and focus on smaller, cheaper games.
No, keep going, i want this industry to die, let's get rid of the bread and circus, you can feel it right?

Stop playing video games and start growing your fucking business already.

>>719864804
>Business
Nah son, you're fighting in Venezuela

>And the older gen is not enough to keep all the studios afloat
oh it is, since they have all the money.
it's just that they are no longer the investors' target audience anymore.

>>719864712 (OP)
It will correct itself. Always does. AAA studios will continue to die. Indie games will continue to sell for $20. The market will conform to the consumer

>>719864920
It won't
>B-But
It won't

>>719864712 (OP)
Yeah...kind of, maybe. There's more games coming out, but the large majority of them are indie shit. Steam still has the same amount of games with over 1000 reviews in 2024, as the year prior, and again the year prior as well. This year so far, it's the same.

The barrier for entry is lower, that's why more are getting it, but the large large majority of newcomers will make a game, fail, then quit for good. This will continue until more of the "don't make a videogame" knowledge spreads more.

Bigger studio's are struggling because they make shit with half the staff outsourced to India and stretch their budgets way beyond what they should be, and the development cycles are way too long.

>>719864831
No idea what that means but ain’t you tired of being poor?

>>719865220
Nigga you haven't watched the news?

>>719865242
only my local news. I don’t care about this world shitholes

>>719864712 (OP)
There are literally more games than ever before, people genuinely can't fathom how fucked the industry is for new IPs

A real problem that I rarely see /v/ discuss is that the whole microtransaction game as a service thing was TOO successful

So now a dozen or so, decade old games control the majority of the market. League, Minecraft, Roblox, Fortnite, Warzone, GTAO, you know what I mean

The Skinner Box is so perfected that the industry is wilting because they can't get the mice to leave. This shit didn't happen back when Street Fighter 2 or Quake 3 or god forbid World of Warcraft was the biggest game in the world.

>>719864712 (OP)
Fuck OFF with your roguelikes and trannyvanias

>>719865304
Oh, then don't let me spoil things for you ;)

>>719865374
>>719865242
You promised me I was getting drafted to fight Iran last year
You promised me I was getting drafted to fight Russia two years ago

>>719865341
Good point, microtransactions relies on people's stupidity, of which there is a lot.

Dumb kids seriously thinks that paying $1 100 times is cheaper than paying $80 for a full game.

>>719865341
This, for example most people bitch at Warner for trying to make another live service game AGAIN after Multiversus and the Suicide Squad, but they seem to forget that before Marvel Rivals, the avengers game was one of the biggest flops in the history of the industry, the black pill is that even mildy successful live service games are more successful than the best selling singleplayer games

>>719864804
>your business
you mean their business
theyre destroying private business
youre only allowed to work if its for them
work work work work work never do anything but work work and work more for us sleep minimal amount eat minimal amount cost us minimal amount get paid minimal amount work more work harder work longer more work work work Work WORK
never have time for yourself
never have time for friends
never have time for family
never have time for hobbies or relaxation/entertainment

just work
Work
WORK

WORK UNTIL YOU DROP DIE AND GET REPLACED BY NEW WORKER OWN NEVER BE NOTHING JUST WORK THEN DIE AND GET REPLACED BY NEW WORKER

WORK AND DIE NO LIFE NOW JOY JUST WORK AND DIE

>>719865341
>because they can't get the mice to leave
are they even trying, though?
was Concord an attempt? if yes, fuck. if no, fuck.

>>719865459
Department of WAR, dada needs more oil

>>719865510
>even mildy successful live service games are more successful than the best selling singleplayer games
I've had this creeping suspicion about Bethesda, that Elder Scrolls Online and Fallout 76 are nowhere near the top of the GaaS pile, but even as mediocrities they are still generating such a flood of revenue that Bethesda is disincentivized to make actual sequels

Also that people already have too much games already available. Between F2P games, games you've previously bought, games at subscription services, games that were given "for free" with Games with Gold or PS Now or just flat out free at GOG or Epic...

My backlog is around 50 games if I just count games I REALLY want to play, but if I count games I have a passing interest in it's over 200

>>719864920
>two more weeks

>>719865862
This, too. I'm not interested in a new console, because there's already so much to play, and the difference in graphics isn't that great anymore.

I have 80 games on steam I haven't played yet and another 40 wishlisted.
Wish I didn't need a job

>>719865791
Never underestimate whales, i would ve fine with this because ik an ideal world all this extra revenue would be unvested in the sequels we wanna see, but sdaly we live in the real world

>>719865905
We're five years into the Ninth Gen and there still aren't any definitive Ninth Gen games yet

Shit there's barely any definitive Eighth Gen games and that was twelve years ago

Time to remaster The Last of Us again

>>719864784
This. Let those fuckers go out of business for putting slop that no one asked for. Indie will never stop existing and that's the only place where you see true passion, vision and creativity for projects being made. Those artificial 50-100 people average AA companies are literally by product of capitalist minmaxing, those are business projects and nothing more. They meant to be disposable and so is the products they produce at the bare minimum cost. With rise of Unreal it was made easier than ever which is why Unreal on stuff that they do in the first place, presentability first, the rest is irrelevant.

>>719865341
true but then again, most of the people stuck in those games are young people. Old people, 30+ years olds, are the ones buying and keeping AAA games on lifesupport probably because young people are broke and their parents are broke too, so those live service games naturally gained a loyal audience. Remember microtransactions don't cost $70 and you don't have to spend money on everything either. Is a relatively cheaper experience compared to spending $70 on a new game every couple of months.

New games also require a new console or a more powerful expensive PC, another reason why a $20 Metroidvania game that runs on a potato is so successful. The young generation are holding gaming back and making everything become stale.