People would rather spend full price 60$ on a 20 year old game with a FPS downgrade from 60 to 30, censorship and possibly troon worship (theres a trans npc that will likely be altered), instead of just getting a PC and downloading Dolphin Emulator for free. With mods to remove censorship and play in 4K 60 FPS. All that for FREE.
And it doesn't even require a beefy computer anymore. Most games in Dolphin will run great upscaled on any old piece of shit.
Thank you Sony on making my decision for me. Guess Nintendo gets my money, you pricks.
Jesus Christ, every time I hear a Vtubers ugly, horrendous, shrill toddler voice I want to murder them. Pedophilic monsters, all of them.
Except they don't.
I wonder if that stat includes the 10+ year old "live service" games like Grand Theft Auto 5 that are still wildly popular and making money hand over fist from DLC and loot boxes and all that crap. Because those games are absolutely part of the problem, despite being old.
That's basically it, yes. It's not that (most) people are going back and playing retro games, it's that GaaS/evergreen titles are still going strong, with the biggest titles eating up a substantial market share. I remember when the article was posted here, people were taking that as people rejecting modern games as a whole due to DEI/just being shitty, but it's more that the top titles are just so entrenched that newer titles (GaaS or not) can't shake off the stranglehold.
Gaming has been stagnant for nearly a decade by now:
The water cooler topic is dead on. Be it normies discussing the game, or it being the latest meme game to do the rounds on TikTok. But even that is wearing thin. I'm stunned at the amount of people discovering New Vegas and Fallout 4 for the first time due to the Netflix series.
I'd argue this is a good thing. We can argue that maybe a few more face buttons would be nice, but things like WiiU and Kinect were a mess that made games worse.
This.
I feel like Elden Ring was pretty good in it, lots of content and experience to talk about, sadly it was the exception since modern live service gaming is so samey that there is nothing to discuss about. Like Diablo 4 that basically died after a month.
I thought more along the lines of VR. Though I did like WiiU extra screen for some games, but you can emulate it in gameplay pretty easily. The various touch pads were especially bad, you either blocked your own vision (DS) or fumbled around not seeing what you're doing (Vita).
You could probably make it 2008 if you combine smart filters and the game is more stylistic than realistic. Heck, a huge amount of the more popular games from the last years have subpar snes graphics.
Never forget what they took from us
to be fair I can't blame them, the moment "a npc wants to fuck you in the ass" makes headlines it would be shit PR. it's like dropping different jokes with your mates and at a family dinner, the west simply doesn't have that powerlevel.
I mean… and Belial is a consistent fan favorite in both markets. It’s a gacha game, it’s great PR for the target demographic. I don’t think it’s mainstream enough in the west for anyone outside of that to really matter.
doesn't need to be mainstream, just remember the hateboner western gamejournos have for anything japan. they could argue they don't officially publish in the west, but that didn't help DOAX 3 either.
