they knew to just slip in a bit of propaganda to something people actually want,
Exactly. Think about a "very special episode" or how sequels to hit movies is when thed poz stuff up.
Think about how many people use Battlestar galactica as an example of a "tough female lead done right" or DS9 as a "black character done right" as if those shoes wouldn't be hits even if it was a shitty character.
OTOH, there were always failures. The first attempt at a primetime TV show with an open gay character happened in the 80s, it flopped. Same thing with that TV show about a woman president.
But overall people rarely jump into propaganda, but if it is included in something they enjoy they don't care.
1983-tier video game bust.
This won't happen just because of how many older games that people will continue to buy to prop up the market. Blizzard still makes over a billion from wow accounts.
But the console market is probably dead at this point. PC gaming has been mostly indie trash or older games for awhile. Steamcharts have proven people are playing games over a decade old way more often than they're playing games related in the last 10 months.
I think gaming will just turn into a niche thing. Kids might get a switch but would need to buy a PC to experience real games so they just won't. The market will shrink in response, all games will be made by less than a dozen dudes just like in the 90s.
Mobile games have apparently been a bigger market than other games for years now.
but holy shit, that timing
Great example of good woke. People love Mario games and will enjoy even this one apparently about brother sex. Shipping Mario and Luigi together.
Really shows how much of a myth the "woke playerbase
There probably is a woke player base, but they aren't going to be jumping into an FPS game and there certainly aren't 10 million of the fuckers.
Disco Elysium was not only hyped by breadtube but used a fuck load of open socialists in the smaller voice roles. I know a bizarre amount of people for whom that's the **only** video game they've ever played or the first one they've played since they were kids.
But it's also just a VN with unique presentation and cRPGs are a bit more unique as a genre because it's fanbase is older and more willing to experience new ideas.
Hero shooters in general are a hard sell, there's a reason pre-OW, the only one people could name was TF2 and it was known for their spergy fanbase.
The market could barely sustain one game in that genre and it got like 10.
Dustbirn also just is too "video gamey" for the woke and not good enough for gamers.
I don't know who is in charge, but they have no fucking idea what they're doing and it's amazing to watch
It's like Brewsters millions but with a video game company. This is on par with buying the most expensive stamp in the world and mailing it
Battleborn gave players everything that Overwatch players wanted just 4-5 years too early
You're really saying it had triple the amount of hot chicks?
The switch is currently in it's 8th year,
It beats every other game console in history for most units sold in its 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th year too.
Nintendo abandoning the WiiU and DS and going all in on the switch was a genius move.
They were the kings of the handheld and realized mobile and themselves were cannibalizing the market so they just turned the DS and Wii into one product.
Every kids first "game console" was a Nintendo handheld so why not just make the handheld into a console as well.
Them realizing it was the console rather than the games themselves driving people away was amazing in hindsight too, no way in hell Sony or Microsoft would blame themselves rather than the games.
