Seriously though, have you ever thought about the pre-normienet, pre-smart phone, pre-social media days, where gaming was a niche hobby?
Sony sold 120+ million PS2s. At the height of gaming, arguably the most popular time; the pswii60 gen, 80 million ps3s, 80 million 360s and 150 million wiis, 80 million PSP's and 125 million DS's (by 2009) were sold. Thats 500~ million units sold in one generation, plus games!
Yet we're told that gaming is more popular, more lucrative and totally better than evah? Nintendo sold 275 million units in the Wii gen. They've scraped 150 million this gen.
Sony is coping about selling another 100 million units, they're on 60 million with no competition.
Microsoft have sold just over 25 million xboxes.
That's 275 million units, 225 million shy of 15 years ago when gaming wasn't as popular (or so we're told) as it is now.
So what's going on? We're being lied to, hand over fist. The direction that MS and Sony have taken; no exclusives, expensive and/or convoluted hardware launches, woke games and day 1 fixes, was the wrong one and they won't/can't admit it. Sony and MS are chasing PC ports and stores to pad out their numbers because both companies have failed catastrophically and they need to hide the damage.
Consider this: Coca-Cola sell 500 million bottles in one year. 15 years later, after an aggressive expansion into new countries, continents, with more fans of the product than ever, they only manage to sell 275 million bottles a year. Are they successful?
The industry is dead, it's corpse paraded around so we can pretend 'this is fine'.
