With sales dropping and confidence declining, how close are we to the end of consoles as we know them?
  •  WILSOOON   ( @WILSOOON@programming.dev ) 
    22•5 months ago

    Sony shat over their consumers and are now in the process of trying the same for pc using the 5 exclusive games they still have as bait. Xbox effectively fucked their business model a few years ago with game pass and are now hemorrhaging money. Apple, who in their right mind plays on apple silicon, shit cant even run doom. Epic games store is only being kept afloat due to fortnite and their free games they give out like candy. Valve got so fed up with the bullshit that Microsoft churns out of its window shaped asshole that they created proton and are most likely the leading cause for the rise of the linux market share . All of the other publishers tried to make their own games stores and all of those are dead There are no games on chromebooks.

    Its not just the consoles its litterally everbody that is fucking dieing. The other platforms that could offer viable gaming experiences either dont support it (chromebooks) dont want to support it( apple xbox sony) or dont have enough power for fully fledged massive games (i dont think we’ll be seeing helldivers 2 on a phone like ever)

    Gaben does litterally nothing All the while the rest of the competition is buisy looking down the barrel of a loaded gun wondering why its not shooting

    •  Che Banana   ( @The_Che_Banana@beehaw.org ) 
      7•5 months ago

      The modern corporation does not allow for innovation, its only focus is asset acquisition, stripping until there is nothing left and selling the corpse or shutting it down, all for those tasty quarterly gains for shareholders.

    •  𝕽𝖚𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍   ( @sxan@midwest.social ) 
      5•5 months ago

      Beautifully summarized.

      I think another factor will emerge: people are starting to realize that they’re paying $60 to rent a game. They don’t own it, and the game developer can shut it down at any time, and even if they don’t, it probably requires some online access for something, and the game stops working once the developer turns off those servers.

      I don’t think we’ll see a revolt, but companies will be forced through competition to allow rental models with less or no up-front cost. I think people will simply become less willing to pay $60 for a rental. At this point, I don’t know what happens to development studios, because they need seed funding to get to market. I think it’s already happening; as a very casual gamer, most of what I hear from the industry is pure-play game studios shutting down, or being acquired by corporations like Sony or Microsoft, who have other revenue streams they can redirect into speculative game development.