Companies forgot that the best way to sell consoles is to have games that are fun to play.... Really hope Switch 2 launches with some good titles like the OG switch did
Most of the amazing switch 1 games on release were just Wii U games, that was fine though since the Wii U sucked and no one owned it. If Nintendo does that again it wont pass because people have the Switch
The major games on steam right now are over a decade old. Gamers don't give a shit about the best and brightest graphics if it comes at a cost to gameplay.
I agree in some ways. I started video gaming back in the late 70's. Have been in and out of it since. Yes, I did like immersive graphics ( am thinking of racing games, in VR with full Fanatatec setup) what has really driven my enjoyment is just a good game, no matter what the graphics. Until fairly recently I still played 3-d defender on my ZX-81 :) ... But that could just be a nostalgic throwback :)
There are so many good games that most people haven't played. So many games come out each day that what at one time may have been regarded as a great classic now gets buried in so many releases. There are enough games out there that they could not release a new game for 10 years and we'd still have plenty to play.
The problem is gaming back in the day used to be a hobby. Relaxing fun this to do. Devs would make a game for the sole purpose of having people enjoy it. Now its not about that, its how can we put a game out thats barley finished, charge full price and then slowly feed them updates and make as much money as possible throughout it. Companies are getting greddy and scummy. Drip feeding and linited release fomo content is brutal
I'm 22, I was playing with my cousin who's 12 and Spider-Man 2 was on. He doesn't have the game and I showed him all the suits and he asked "did you have to pay for them?". I died inside, the fact that he was surprised that the suits were free and not paid for is terrible. Gaming really has gone downhill.
Dude that's exactly what I'm talking about. It's heartbreaking man really. Cuz all those fortnite skins and all that shit does mean something when your 10 or 12. I hope things go in a different direction in the near future.
It's all part of psychological manipulation, conditioning, and for all intents and purposes, brainwashing! Some of it has corporate origins, conjured from greed, and designed not only to make a larger profit, but also to mold their customers, and future customers, into multiple cash cows. No longer does one merely buy a game, and get to play it with a full experience that was intended by the developers. You do not legally own that game. Some mega corporation owns the rights, or has the right to control, meaning you can lose the ability to play said game at any particular time. It may not seem that bad for most of the popular games today, for when one loses support, there has already been a more recent version of basically the same game out and available. You can't play the old one in the same fashion you and your friends enjoyed, but you can get a similar experience in a newer version of the game which is sometimes, after the facade of being a better version solely created from the experience of playing on completely new maps, and possibly from playing with new toys (weapons) alongside playing in new maps has begun to fade as the maps grown to become highly familiar territory, the gameplay might even be better. Regardless, a new version is available that will act as a substitute for the old game you once held so dear, to appease you, the gamer, to some degree that allows you to be conditioned into accepting that this is the new way, and it is here to stay. Yet, what of those games that have no sequel or re-makes that you love, what of them, when their execution has arrived, and they pull the plug on support??? Perhaps it was your favorite game of all time, and you hadn't even finished it because of how little free time you now have to game, but you still game whenever you can, but there were always other games to play, and you would just tackle that long epic game with incredible puzzles a little portion at a time. You always set aside one hour on Friday evenings to dedicate to playing that game, and it was a pleasure to which you always looked forward with excited eagerness, but late one Friday evening, after inserting the disc of your favorite game of all time, knowing that you were incredibly close to the end while reasonably believing that you would finish this game tonight that has one hell of an epic ending which many people have raved about in the most enthusiastic recounts you have ever witness, but for some unknown reason, yet fortunate for your situation, not a single person who had completed that game would ever go on record and speak a single word about, and you were excited that you are about to discovery, to learn some huge secret that only a relatively small group of people possess. This gaming session may be the most epic in all of my gaming life!!!! Then, the tray pops back open and your screen has the above message on it. You feel as if your brain has split into two conflicting hemispheres, one telling you in a thunderous voice in a slow and most deliberate enunciation what you had just read, while another half is going a million miles a second about how it can't be true, there's literally no possible way, it some elaborate troll by those lizard kids, or some other self-proclaimed hactivists, or some sick joke, or a program error, or anything but what it says it is . . . completely surreal feeling never felt prior but conjuring a déjà vu sense of a Je ne sais quoi feeling akin to standing directly between two passionately arguing ghost with barely sufficient room to fit, you simultaneously drawn to both sides of the argument in equal strengths, you begin thinking that should this inevitably grow more intense, or endure for much longer, your very soul, or at least some major essence of your true self will be violently ripped in half, causing a loss of all rational thought. You reread the message again, only this time the information it conveys begins to penetrate your cranium and invade your conscious awareness until it stumbles into a triggering point, and which time you lose all rationally based self-control, and you initiate a venting rage of immaculate hatred where you throw a fastball using your control to the dead center of your 83" OLED current flagship generation TV, overcoming the screen's integrity, like a shuriken, it remains stuck part way into the TV screen, immediately followed by grabbing your console with such force and quickness all cables were ripped out of the back of the console except for the ethernet cable, and another quick spinning jerk resolved that issue, leaving the plus inside of the console's port, but successfully ripping the cable out of the plug. You jump high up into the air bring the gaming console far above your head, and with the extra force of gravity pulling you back to the ground, you violently throw your arms downward, slamming it into the ground, causing a sizeable dent in the outer shell and a few small pieces of plastic to go flying off somewhere. Once again, you jump high up into the air leaving the console upon the ground, aiming your landing your two heavy-booted feet directly atop of the console, causing further damage to the console, and definitely rendering it into a stage of non-functionality. You begin to wish for a keyboard so you could show the world that the German kid was nothing! Er ist wertlos! Er ist nichts! Bon sang, ce gamin paresseux et sans valeur a bu toute ma bière et s'est encore évanoui sur le canapé ! Réveillez-le, donnez-lui les clés de mon camion et dites-lui d'aller me chercher de la bière !!! Even when it's a game that miraculously has no DLC, no loot crates, no pay to win, no nothing beyond the cost to purchase a physical copy of the game, take it home , and play it whenever you like . . . never feeling like you are missing out on part of the game because they are asking for too much $$$$ for skins (which you have managed to resist any false desires they have attempted to program you with to make you more susceptible to purchasing virtual products, real money for fake items, you can rise above that, especially when it doesn't give another player an edge over those who didn't purchase the fake product), and even without any money-grabbing schemes built into the game, or even planned for the future, you pop that disc in for the first time, and what happens? It needs to update . . . hey, but this is day one, and you wonder (if you are a thinker) how do so many of these companies get away with releasing a final product of a game that is either faulty, or incomplete??? The console will not let you play the game until the update has completed and been applied, so somehow without any of your typical money exploits designed into the game, and even with a guarantee that no future DLC will ever be available, you were unable to purchase the game as a complete, finished game that is immediately usable! Is this a ploy that is conditioning gamers to get fully acclimated with the process of downloading updates, patches, and whatever else, upon first boot-up of that game? Conditioning them to such a degree that if they should ever acquire a game, and upon inserting it into the gaming console for its first bootup of that game, it just boots up and runs without any delays from necessary downloads, they would actually think the game was defective, or not functioning properly without that initial download? Perhaps this is the temporary solution they are using until they feel enough customers are willing to accept all digital gaming consoles? They want to get rid of physical copies of games in order to gain more control over those games in a variety of aspects, but all which boil down to the capacity to generate more revenue from those games, and hence, increase their bottom line.
all i want is a 10 to 15 hour single player games like we used too. its ok if its not graphically intensive just good story and gameplay will do wonders
Just look at Indie Games.. dont have your eyes on the big coprorations and you can find hundreds of really good single player games without any microtransactions and other bullshit, granted some of them are not visually impressive.. but if gameplay is more important than there is so so much to discover.
I think it’s 50% blame to the corporate suits and 50% blame on the gamers, because gamers demand all of these things, they get them and then complain when they get what they wanted. Like, as Matt said, vote with your wallet. I cannot tell you how many times I’ve heard people, both online and in person say, “I’m done with (*insert yearly released sports game*) I’m not buying it anymore” only to get excited for the next yearly release. Like, if you are genuinely tired of the things you complain about, then don’t buy into the hype.
@@jedinite128 So, that means those games were terrible. Cause look what happened with the people who grew up with that. They made this. Gen X didn't grow up with those games you listed, so they weren't ruined by them.
Unchecked company Greed they do not care about games, players, product just about playing the lottery to make the ultimate moneymaker with 400 mil Billjons and making us pay for it scaming us we get actual value for these overpiced Failures
Corporations learnd to make profit fire workers to make more profit and keep nickle and diming with subsciptions and cut more cost wile scaming and finding more ways to take more from us while increasing prices with no limit
I always bring up the idea of earning skins in gaming. I remember in MW2, if you got taken out by someone with a gold Desert Eagle, you knew they were a skilled player. That sense of accomplishment is gone now, and it’s sad. Gaming has become such a letdown. The last game I truly loved was Stardew Valley-it had that charm that’s so hard to find nowadays. Unfortunately, money has changed everything. Modern music feels watered down and formulaic, movies are shameless cash grabs, and even my TV bombards me with ads the moment I turn it on. I’m passionate about technology, but it's frustrating to see how badly they’re messing it up.
The leftist/feminist/woke cults also ruining our games, they destroyed Hollywood and now plaguing our games. Ruining story lines for agendas. censoring words or characters because it "offends" people...removing male and female genders, inserting mandatory pronouns etc..
Digital Foundery allready confirmd this because Sony did not upgrade the CPU thats the Bottleneck the other side are the devellopers choose to start with 30FPS when making games and not even bother to polish make it run good because studios limit time and money and decide not cost effective not worth time and money to do it right
@@Kimvanloocke DF didn’t "confirm" this lmao the game is still in development, everything DF said was all just S P E C U L A T I O N and they stated as much. Also another correction is Sony did actually upgrade the CPU, it has a 10% over clock _and_ PSSR baked in. Edit: Practise listening and stop the spread of misinformation.
My generation we had it so good. 2006-2013 was so great for gaming. When games didn’t have a billion dollar budget. They were just great to play. The story was first. Not the graphics.
I'm 34 and I got to experience the wonder of Mass Effect 2 and the crippling disappointment that was Mass Effect 3. I'm currently playing Deep Rock Galactic, Space Marine 2, The Suffering, and the Halo collection (1-Reach). I just want good games to become common place again. I will gladly pay $70 to play a game as good as ME2.
i ESTIMATE that since i started playing WORLD of WARCRAFT back in 2009 that i have spent approximately $4,000 (monthly fees, expansions and "whatnot") hard to believe 15 years have passed. Wrath was the best and TWW is shaping up to be a close second.
I mostly play on PC and laptop, but I bought a PS5 Slim with drive for 2 reasons. First, it was at $370 open box at Newegg (Spiderman version, game included), second, GTA VI. I started with NES, then Gameboy, Game Gear, PS1, PS3. After the PS3 I got my first laptop, experienced PC gaming and game availability, so I had not found a reason to get a console until the Switch. Now the Switch wasn't calling to me until I saw my nephew playing Breath of the Wild. I found the game interesting, not having played any other Zelda version ever before, believe it or not. Having the Switch in my case is good for one reason only, and that's not being able to use my PC or laptop. As for the PS5 Pro, the price is outrageous, seeing as I could build a good enough PC for that same amount, and I'll be able to do so much more. Right now there are i7 4060 laptops going for $800-$900 that won't do 4K 60 or 120, but you'll get to game anywhere you take it. Yes, PS exclusives are the main reason why people buy consoles, but most of those exclusives are landing on PC platforms anyways, so all I've had to do is wait. I'll happily play GTA VI on my PS5 Slim with my 1080P 144Hz monitor when it finally releases.
The single player games like Spiderman and GOW will ALWAYS be better than these micro transaction games like Warzone and sports games like Madden and 2K.
Love this channel, even after watching Austin ride an electric scooter months ago, deciding off that to buy my own and instantly break both the radius and ulna in my left arm. Skill issue I know. I did get a 3 month vacation from work , unpaid of course, for it to heal. Lmao. Atleast I was able to game still.
Sony is absolutely right to get in while the getting is good. I'm sure they see the horizon. Boomers, gen Xs and millennials are it. Look what the younger people has been raised on: Fortnite. Roblox. Tablets. They don't care about Fidelity and ray tracing and reflections. A whole new world is coming
Dude Matt you need to get on Gamepass more an look up more reviews of games on it. Somerville, Jusant, Power Wash Simulator, Hello Neighbor 2, Firewatch, The Long Dark, Botany Manor just to name a few. Come on homie! There's a lot of good to be had. 🤘
Problem is for this gen consoles have been terrible for games. Where almost on the next gen and there hasnt really been alot where its like "wow this is amazing"
@@gatgat01 the Xbox Series X honestly hasn't been bad. Theres been a lot of fun stuff on Gamepass. Sadly Sony not so much. 6 exclusives in 4 years really sucks... My PS5 just sits there. Hoping the next four years will be better but it's not looking good. Kinda regretting buying it.
I don't understand why more classic books are not getting made into movies or 1hr weekly shows. Then they might could do some new games based around them...for example Forgotten Realms, DragonLance books etc etc
You guys forgot to mention that these huge game corporations barely pay their “employees” the developers that make the game any money. At the end of the day, corporations not just gaming but everything in general, construction, automotive need to pay more. Inflation has made it into everybody’s paycheck no longer matters, but for some reason when we get bigger raises, they say this increase inflation?????? How come inflation doesn’t increase our pay. So we just go homeless and nothing matters??
As far as frames go. You first need a display capable of showing all the frames, you then need to be super human above like 120 fps because realistically it's just fun seeing a high number at that point. It won't make you a better gamer. Good 1% lows will though. Also, as far as AAA games go. They're horrible today. The deadlines are like a week for certain things that should realistically take 2 - 3 weeks for testing and fixing things, and lots of the times it's worse for indie developers as they're being barked at by publishers to just push it out quickly. mainstream games are cooked and honestly indie game sites like itch are the only arguably good thing left.
WoW does it really well. Like Matt said, other than the Token it's all cosmetic. But, what they do is charge like $15 - $25 for an exclusive mount... that Mount will have a ton of features that in game mounts don't currently have... But, now that people have paid for the development of those fancy new mounts, a little later down the line, they use those assets (new skeletons, or animations etc...) on future In Game mounts. So while you might not get the exact dame thing as a premium store mount, Mounts in the game overall improve. It let's blizzard experiment with minimal risk, and reward the entire player base with Top-Tier mounts moving forward... because all of the work is done, and they've already profitted from the Store Sales, so now they can just plop those features onto new mounts that every player can enjoy. And the cycle repeats. If you can't afford a Store mount, within a year, you'll have something Comporable for free in game.
about A and AA studios using A.I. I thought it could help them because they wouldn’t have to take as big of a risk with stretching their budget thin with highering ppl. I know it sounds bad trying not to employ someone but sometimes smaller studios just can’t affford to pay someone a salary when they could make a one time purchase with an A.I. program.
Every now and then, you see a great game like Baldur's Gate and Black Myth Wukong and warhammer 40000 space marine where they upfront say we don't have any micro-transactions and we don't plan to implement it at all.
I would love to being up the fact that warframe is a VERY free to play game and can get really anything but cosmetics for basically free in some way. This game is available on almost every platform at this point, the battle pass system is free, and the story feels like something out of a Triple A game (personally anyway). I don't think gaming is dying, some people arnt looking in the right places
What’s you’re completely glossing over is the fact that F2P games are made for WHALES, if you don’t spend ungodly amounts of money the gaming experience will be severely frustrtating. They are not worth it for most people in the long run.
Get on board with games like Palworld. It's the future of true gaming. Not this weird DLC/microtransaction thing we are currently trying to get out of.
@@NoMore12345-z Nah, they only have patents in Japan and the patent is so extremely vague that it can't possibly hold up in court. I have faith the game will survive. It may be forced to change how you catch creatures, or something similar, but it will survive.
The game industry lost its ability to understand what it's supposed to do. It's not supposed to gather all of its sales and marketing data, see what's popular, and then regurgitate it in a never-ending feedback loop. The game industry is supposed to innovate, it's supposed to tell stories, it's supposed to offer people an escape that they enjoy. But the gaming industry fails to do any of these things. The game industry crashed years ago and never recovered (Rageaholic has a great video on this). Now, the companies that are left are like dogs chasing their tales. They're rehashing what was already rehash with poor effort development, injecting woke themes, and then they act surprised when they've failed like they have for several years already (people just weren't sure if they could say the industry was failing back then). It's sad to watch. It's even sadder for the consumer who spends hard-earned dollars on products and services that are inferior to what came out LITERALLY 15-20 YEARS AGO.
Will only get worse once its all digital. Suspect the EU will eventually force Sony and Microsoft to open up the platform so games can be bought outside the PS / Xbox store.
I've pretty much quit gaming. The reason why is because I like to buy a complete and finished game. I'm so tired of all this nickel and diming all these companies do now a days. Everything being subscription based is frustrating and annoying.
Or maybe you have just grown out of gaming? It is normal the more you age and gain experience for your interests , priorities and tastes to change, decrease or evolve.
actually you arent getting ANY extra framerates on the pro, its still 60fps. it just makes the backgrounds a little more clear and loads textures slightly faster. also they are trying to integrate AI into making games, and its a literaly joke, its soooo horrible they couldnt even get the OG doom to look right with AI.
The kids are the ones that suffer through this shit. I don't care about skins. I care about gameplay. But if there's some new cool whatever and your best friend has it and you can't afford it that really sucks.
The problem is that those games we want are taking longer to he made. Astro Bot is awesome. I wish companies made more shorter 15 - to 20-hour games that could be released in 2 to 3 years.
Gamers forgot the best way to play is to have a cool looking console and controller that you can display in your room and share them in socmed for others to get jealous 😅 . Oh that PS5 30th anniv looks really cool.
I have been gaming since the Atari 2600. To me there has never been a better time in gaming. There is so much choice, from subscription services to digital sales, to free to play. Gaming is now competing with movies and tv when it comes to entertainment .
Speaking for myself here, the reason why I wouldn't buy as many games as I used to per year even if still had any money to speak of, is mostly the the trends in recent years that ruined many potentially interesting games for me: - Bitesized games that only last for a handful of hours, but ask for AAA full price. - All that mobile crap that is 100% centered on ripping you off and/or collecting your data. - All the "Everything needs to have MP" mania that ruined quite a lot of SP games. - All the "We MUST tick every possible box for every possible minority who might possibly be outraged" leading to token implementations that served only to utterly ruin the immersion and credibility of the developers/publishers.
And as for AI in Game Development, it's not just AI replacing human jobs and thus human job security, it's also a massive downgrade in quality... we all know how much hallucination is going on, how many weird artifacts still show up in almost any AI-generated image, and last but not least, that we're still so far away from truly intelligent neural networks, it'll invariably all be generic BS without a hint of soul, inspiration, personality.
Honestly, gaming is fine, for the most part. Rewinding the clock 10 to 15 years ago we were complaining about frankly the same or similar things with I think about the same list of companies, and probably the same people were grumbling about that stuff then. (Which is a whole can of worms I am not going to open). All pointing to one thing being clear, yes gaming is "cooked" but only if you view it as the same way you might have played it back in 2015 or 2016. As in you played the big multiplayer games and really only that. If you are primarily playing single player titles, honestly you're fine. Most of those games are full games and are really good. And even then, if you have nothing new to play, there's probably some backlog you have and you can always just chip away at that.
Greed is a terrible thing in big companies. The gap between rich and poor is bigger than it's ever been and they'll be taking advantage of it. Everyone knows kids don't like to be left behind their friends when it comes to gaming. Are the companies going to address that with kindness? No, they'll release more and more knowing rightly that parents will be panicked into buying whichever latest game or console the kid demands. Our suffering pays their wages.
So I think a thing that was missed out on is I really like the way Nintendo's been doing it. Don't get me wrong. Sucks that we had to wait this long for the switch 2. But I like how they are releasing a big game. So like we had breath of the wild but then they release a bunch of smaller games in between. So we got the Link's Awakening remake and other smaller games like that. And then we got tears of the Kingdom and instead of diving balls deep into making the next big Zelda game. They're releasing echoes of wisdom and I think that's where the big gaming companies are failing is they want to keep focusing on these giant releases, but they're not peppering anything in between them. I think that's all they would need to do. And I think it's causing us to lose out on some really cool concepts. Like I never thought a game like cadence of Hyrule could ever exist.
I don't think the middle is going out. It definitely gets less attention. I think gaming companies all want to launch the next Fortnite, but gamers actually want the variety we used to get. When every AAA game is more alike than different, and they all expect to be the next big thing, everyone is disappointed.
But to be a free to play player you have to really enjoy the game due to the fact that you are almost always going to be further behind than those who pay and most all these games can’t do that because there’s nothing truly unique about them.
The regular PS5 can already run 120 frames in Fortnite btw. The PS5 Pro doesn’t give Fortnite players any much benefits. Maybe’s running 120 frames consistently idk but it all depends on what display can handle 120
AAA Gaming is mostly cooked, yes. There are occasionally still good AAA Games .. but for me the Indie Sector is where the fun is. Granted they are most of the times not that impressive visually.. but they excel in gameplay and the best part is.. pay once for it and get a full game (talking Singeplayer here), no Battlepass, not always on, no microtransactions. So Gaming for me is still a lot of fun .. i just shy away from the AAA Sector.
Casual gamers are screwed by monthly subscriptions, pay to play and games where grinding is the alternative... It's not worth paying a subscription to game occasionally, it's not worn paying money everymonth yo keep up with everyone playing regularly in part to play and you don't or can't put the time in to find to keep up with people playing daily... I just want to be able to play at my pace without being at a disadvantage to everyone else.
Yes!! Its burnt to a crisp cooked!! Bit I'm still gonna keep dinning and trying to eat the slop they serve us! But man, nothing is greater than left overs tho. Days gone, RDR2, W3, ER..I'm still eating good for now!
You dont need to make amazing games anymore, for the most part - you just need to make it good enough to let people shell out for microtransactions. The meta-gaming will do the rest, where people will defend and promote the game by themselves.
Idk my opinion is for everyone to broaden their genre pallet more. Hardware hasn't really matter since the ps4 and Switch came out. I'm currently drowning in games to play cause there so many rpg & platformer titles coming out.
You might not like it. I might not like it but the fact of the matter is that live service games are what the market wants. Look up what the most popular games are right now. You’ll see a trend. It’s basically all live service games… and Minecraft.
Gaming is probably headed for a crash. Even before people start getting tired of the nickel and diming. Game budgets are WAY out of hand. The spending in gaming is like handing a kid a blank cheque and dropping them off in a GameStore/ToysRUs. These companies have stupidly spent their way into this hole, and are now desperately trying to win the lottery by making their own Fortnight, just to climb out. Eventually this won't be sustainable and a lot of these companies will fold, if they can't adapt.
the problem is not live service games selling you skins its full price games or 40 dollar 50 dollar games doing it or games coming out broken and early adopters having to be play testers at 70 dollars or more depending on edition or locking away a portion of the game waiting a month or 2 then asking for 15 to 20 bucks to unlock that portion as dlc when it was clearly already part of the game and the lack of risk taking to make new ips its all remakes remasters and sequals and i get it shits expensive but when there no innovation no creativity the industry is going to die because its all the same game so there would be no point
I don't think we need hardware significantly more powerful than the PS3/Xbox 360. In fact, the Switch is sort of "proof" of that as it is just a little more powerful than those 2. Thing is, better graphics is nice, but for the most part, the games aren't significantly better. Other than better graphics, I'm not sure that GTA VI will be much more fun than GTA 3 on the PS2. But, OK, there has to be a minimum. I think the PS3/XBox360/Switch are capable of putting close to photorealistic 1080p images on screen. That's good enough. I started gaming on the Atari. Then the C64 and Apple II. I remember how much they managed to squeeze out of those units. I think there are very few games out that couldn't duplicate 90% of the gaming fun on the PS3. Current hardware is in the doldrums. The next revolution will have to be from VR, AI, or some kind of control that is more than gamepads (like wii or kinect or whatever).
there are so many great older games to play that i dont have enough years in my life left to experience them. i couldnt care less about the future of gaming.
This is why gaming is dead: Studios being bought and then consolidated into one. The employees are laid off because you need to cut down on costs to offset the purchase, then the employees that are still there are over worked and that causes poor quality. The need to turn a profit is the result in a poorly made game being released, games are much more graphic intense which means more time in development but games need to he turned out in 1 to 2 years to be profitable but because the amount of labor needed to complete the game in that time frame have been laid off. Then the game is in development for 4 plus years, gets released, doesn’t sell well then the studio is shut down. Now we get games that are being released from 2 generations ago just to make a quick buck.
I think VR is suffering the same, quest is an excellent alternative to pcvr but now developers are mainly making mobile quality quest games as its easy money instead of highly detailed pcvr games, it's a shame as I was a big vr enthusiast but last couple of years have only given us a handful of high quality games.
Companies forgot that the best way to sell consoles is to have games that are fun to play.... Really hope Switch 2 launches with some good titles like the OG switch did
I think so, Nintendo always has known what makes gaming so great, the games lol
It will the only reason they delayed to 2025 launch was because the games arent finished yet
Most of the amazing switch 1 games on release were just Wii U games, that was fine though since the Wii U sucked and no one owned it.
If Nintendo does that again it wont pass because people have the Switch
Nintendo’s whole thing is their games. If they release with bad games & bad games the switch 2 is going to be more like the WII U.
@@Ireojimayo Many games, not most. There are a lot more great games for switch than those on Wii u
Tech is now being bottled necked by shareholders for profit
Gaming has entered shitifocation
That’s how it’s been since the beginning of time
Seriously, each year games regressing in quality ... The more we pay the less they care.
Unfortunately UBISOFT has devolved to 2006
Will you play pantheon rise of the fallen?
The major games on steam right now are over a decade old. Gamers don't give a shit about the best and brightest graphics if it comes at a cost to gameplay.
That’s the reason why I support Nintendo. Different types of games. PC is just too confusing. My Steam deck is helping me not buy a gaming pc lol.
I agree in some ways. I started video gaming back in the late 70's. Have been in and out of it since. Yes, I did like immersive graphics ( am thinking of racing games, in VR with full Fanatatec setup) what has really driven my enjoyment is just a good game, no matter what the graphics.
Until fairly recently I still played 3-d defender on my ZX-81 :) ... But that could just be a nostalgic throwback :)
PC+Nintendo is the best combination best of both worlds
There are so many good games that most people haven't played. So many games come out each day that what at one time may have been regarded as a great classic now gets buried in so many releases. There are enough games out there that they could not release a new game for 10 years and we'd still have plenty to play.
@@WarAlex16 wtf is confusing about a PC
The problem is gaming back in the day used to be a hobby. Relaxing fun this to do. Devs would make a game for the sole purpose of having people enjoy it. Now its not about that, its how can we put a game out thats barley finished, charge full price and then slowly feed them updates and make as much money as possible throughout it. Companies are getting greddy and scummy. Drip feeding and linited release fomo content is brutal
I'm 22, I was playing with my cousin who's 12 and Spider-Man 2 was on. He doesn't have the game and I showed him all the suits and he asked "did you have to pay for them?". I died inside, the fact that he was surprised that the suits were free and not paid for is terrible. Gaming really has gone downhill.
I don't know about you, but I'm feeling 22 🎶
Dude that's exactly what I'm talking about. It's heartbreaking man really. Cuz all those fortnite skins and all that shit does mean something when your 10 or 12. I hope things go in a different direction in the near future.
I used to unlock all the characters in mortal kombat on PS1… for free!
@@romangleyzer4567 no one will realize the genius of this comment. 🤘🏻
It's all part of psychological manipulation, conditioning, and for all intents and purposes, brainwashing! Some of it has corporate origins, conjured from greed, and designed not only to make a larger profit, but also to mold their customers, and future customers, into multiple cash cows. No longer does one merely buy a game, and get to play it with a full experience that was intended by the developers. You do not legally own that game. Some mega corporation owns the rights, or has the right to control, meaning you can lose the ability to play said game at any particular time. It may not seem that bad for most of the popular games today, for when one loses support, there has already been a more recent version of basically the same game out and available. You can't play the old one in the same fashion you and your friends enjoyed, but you can get a similar experience in a newer version of the game which is sometimes, after the facade of being a better version solely created from the experience of playing on completely new maps, and possibly from playing with new toys (weapons) alongside playing in new maps has begun to fade as the maps grown to become highly familiar territory, the gameplay might even be better. Regardless, a new version is available that will act as a substitute for the old game you once held so dear, to appease you, the gamer, to some degree that allows you to be conditioned into accepting that this is the new way, and it is here to stay. Yet, what of those games that have no sequel or re-makes that you love, what of them, when their execution has arrived, and they pull the plug on support??? Perhaps it was your favorite game of all time, and you hadn't even finished it because of how little free time you now have to game, but you still game whenever you can, but there were always other games to play, and you would just tackle that long epic game with incredible puzzles a little portion at a time. You always set aside one hour on Friday evenings to dedicate to playing that game, and it was a pleasure to which you always looked forward with excited eagerness, but late one Friday evening, after inserting the disc of your favorite game of all time, knowing that you were incredibly close to the end while reasonably believing that you would finish this game tonight that has one hell of an epic ending which many people have raved about in the most enthusiastic recounts you have ever witness, but for some unknown reason, yet fortunate for your situation, not a single person who had completed that game would ever go on record and speak a single word about, and you were excited that you are about to discovery, to learn some huge secret that only a relatively small group of people possess. This gaming session may be the most epic in all of my gaming life!!!! Then, the tray pops back open and your screen has the above message on it. You feel as if your brain has split into two conflicting hemispheres, one telling you in a thunderous voice in a slow and most deliberate enunciation what you had just read, while another half is going a million miles a second about how it can't be true, there's literally no possible way, it some elaborate troll by those lizard kids, or some other self-proclaimed hactivists, or some sick joke, or a program error, or anything but what it says it is . . . completely surreal feeling never felt prior but conjuring a déjà vu sense of a Je ne sais quoi feeling akin to standing directly between two passionately arguing ghost with barely sufficient room to fit, you simultaneously drawn to both sides of the argument in equal strengths, you begin thinking that should this inevitably grow more intense, or endure for much longer, your very soul, or at least some major essence of your true self will be violently ripped in half, causing a loss of all rational thought. You reread the message again, only this time the information it conveys begins to penetrate your cranium and invade your conscious awareness until it stumbles into a triggering point, and which time you lose all rationally based self-control, and you initiate a venting rage of immaculate hatred where you throw a fastball using your control to the dead center of your 83" OLED current flagship generation TV, overcoming the screen's integrity, like a shuriken, it remains stuck part way into the TV screen, immediately followed by grabbing your console with such force and quickness all cables were ripped out of the back of the console except for the ethernet cable, and another quick spinning jerk resolved that issue, leaving the plus inside of the console's port, but successfully ripping the cable out of the plug. You jump high up into the air bring the gaming console far above your head, and with the extra force of gravity pulling you back to the ground, you violently throw your arms downward, slamming it into the ground, causing a sizeable dent in the outer shell and a few small pieces of plastic to go flying off somewhere. Once again, you jump high up into the air leaving the console upon the ground, aiming your landing your two heavy-booted feet directly atop of the console, causing further damage to the console, and definitely rendering it into a stage of non-functionality. You begin to wish for a keyboard so you could show the world that the German kid was nothing! Er ist wertlos! Er ist nichts!
Bon sang, ce gamin paresseux et sans valeur a bu toute ma bière et s'est encore évanoui sur le canapé ! Réveillez-le, donnez-lui les clés de mon camion et dites-lui d'aller me chercher de la bière !!!
Even when it's a game that miraculously has no DLC, no loot crates, no pay to win, no nothing beyond the cost to purchase a physical copy of the game, take it home , and play it whenever you like . . . never feeling like you are missing out on part of the game because they are asking for too much $$$$ for skins (which you have managed to resist any false desires they have attempted to program you with to make you more susceptible to purchasing virtual products, real money for fake items, you can rise above that, especially when it doesn't give another player an edge over those who didn't purchase the fake product), and even without any money-grabbing schemes built into the game, or even planned for the future, you pop that disc in for the first time, and what happens? It needs to update . . . hey, but this is day one, and you wonder (if you are a thinker) how do so many of these companies get away with releasing a final product of a game that is either faulty, or incomplete??? The console will not let you play the game until the update has completed and been applied, so somehow without any of your typical money exploits designed into the game, and even with a guarantee that no future DLC will ever be available, you were unable to purchase the game as a complete, finished game that is immediately usable! Is this a ploy that is conditioning gamers to get fully acclimated with the process of downloading updates, patches, and whatever else, upon first boot-up of that game? Conditioning them to such a degree that if they should ever acquire a game, and upon inserting it into the gaming console for its first bootup of that game, it just boots up and runs without any delays from necessary downloads, they would actually think the game was defective, or not functioning properly without that initial download? Perhaps this is the temporary solution they are using until they feel enough customers are willing to accept all digital gaming consoles? They want to get rid of physical copies of games in order to gain more control over those games in a variety of aspects, but all which boil down to the capacity to generate more revenue from those games, and hence, increase their bottom line.
all i want is a 10 to 15 hour single player games like we used too. its ok if its not graphically intensive just good story and gameplay will do wonders
Most games these days are just shooters with microtansactions
Ghost of Tsushima, God Of War, Spiderman, Elden Ring, Hogwarts Legacy, Wukong, Zelda Botw/Totk, Xenoblade, Red Dead 2, etc etc...
@@Aaronotaron love some xenoblade
Just look at Indie Games.. dont have your eyes on the big coprorations and you can find hundreds of really good single player games without any microtransactions and other bullshit, granted some of them are not visually impressive.. but if gameplay is more important than there is so so much to discover.
I think it’s 50% blame to the corporate suits and 50% blame on the gamers, because gamers demand all of these things, they get them and then complain when they get what they wanted. Like, as Matt said, vote with your wallet. I cannot tell you how many times I’ve heard people, both online and in person say, “I’m done with (*insert yearly released sports game*) I’m not buying it anymore” only to get excited for the next yearly release. Like, if you are genuinely tired of the things you complain about, then don’t buy into the hype.
I think people are starting to listen. Look at concord.
@@jedinite128 Wow, so the generations that only had Pong and the Magnavox Odyssey had no effect. What a surprise.
@@jedinite128 So, that means those games were terrible. Cause look what happened with the people who grew up with that. They made this.
Gen X didn't grow up with those games you listed, so they weren't ruined by them.
Unchecked company Greed they do not care about games, players, product just about playing the lottery to make the ultimate moneymaker with 400 mil Billjons and making us pay for it scaming us we get actual value for these overpiced Failures
@@jedinite128 that’s implied 😂
Corporations forgot that the bosses can take pay cuts they don't have to lay people off
Corporations learnd to make profit fire workers to make more profit and keep nickle and diming with subsciptions and cut more cost wile scaming and finding more ways to take more from us while increasing prices with no limit
I always bring up the idea of earning skins in gaming. I remember in MW2, if you got taken out by someone with a gold Desert Eagle, you knew they were a skilled player. That sense of accomplishment is gone now, and it’s sad. Gaming has become such a letdown. The last game I truly loved was Stardew Valley-it had that charm that’s so hard to find nowadays. Unfortunately, money has changed everything. Modern music feels watered down and formulaic, movies are shameless cash grabs, and even my TV bombards me with ads the moment I turn it on. I’m passionate about technology, but it's frustrating to see how badly they’re messing it up.
Honestly, at this point I don’t touch any AAA games anymore. I stick to indie titles and I haven’t been happier.
If GTA6 doesn't run at 60FPS in any capacity on the PS5 Pro then just throw this whole industry in the trash.
The leftist/feminist/woke cults also ruining our games, they destroyed Hollywood and now plaguing our games. Ruining story lines for agendas. censoring words or characters because it "offends" people...removing male and female genders, inserting mandatory pronouns etc..
Digital Foundery allready confirmd this because Sony did not upgrade the CPU thats the Bottleneck the other side are the devellopers choose to start with 30FPS when making games and not even bother to polish make it run good because studios limit time and money and decide not cost effective not worth time and money to do it right
Yup not with that CPU
@@Kimvanloocke DF didn’t "confirm" this lmao the game is still in development, everything DF said was all just S P E C U L A T I O N and they stated as much.
Also another correction is Sony did actually upgrade the CPU, it has a 10% over clock _and_ PSSR baked in.
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Practise listening and stop the spread of misinformation.
it won't...
I remembered getting certain armors and helmets in halo for doing achievements. Not microtransactions.
That was sadly only 1 halo why no other game does it?
@@TheDragonfridaygears of war did that too
My generation we had it so good. 2006-2013 was so great for gaming. When games didn’t have a billion dollar budget. They were just great to play. The story was first. Not the graphics.
I'm 34 and I got to experience the wonder of Mass Effect 2 and the crippling disappointment that was Mass Effect 3. I'm currently playing Deep Rock Galactic, Space Marine 2, The Suffering, and the Halo collection (1-Reach).
I just want good games to become common place again. I will gladly pay $70 to play a game as good as ME2.
This is exactly why I'm taking on a new side project... Emulation. Golden era!
That's why I'm purely retro gaming, which also applies to music and movies!!!!
i ESTIMATE that since i started playing WORLD of WARCRAFT back in 2009 that i have spent approximately $4,000 (monthly fees, expansions and "whatnot") hard to believe 15 years have passed. Wrath was the best and TWW is shaping up to be a close second.
I mostly play on PC and laptop, but I bought a PS5 Slim with drive for 2 reasons. First, it was at $370 open box at Newegg (Spiderman version, game included), second, GTA VI. I started with NES, then Gameboy, Game Gear, PS1, PS3. After the PS3 I got my first laptop, experienced PC gaming and game availability, so I had not found a reason to get a console until the Switch. Now the Switch wasn't calling to me until I saw my nephew playing Breath of the Wild. I found the game interesting, not having played any other Zelda version ever before, believe it or not. Having the Switch in my case is good for one reason only, and that's not being able to use my PC or laptop. As for the PS5 Pro, the price is outrageous, seeing as I could build a good enough PC for that same amount, and I'll be able to do so much more. Right now there are i7 4060 laptops going for $800-$900 that won't do 4K 60 or 120, but you'll get to game anywhere you take it. Yes, PS exclusives are the main reason why people buy consoles, but most of those exclusives are landing on PC platforms anyways, so all I've had to do is wait. I'll happily play GTA VI on my PS5 Slim with my 1080P 144Hz monitor when it finally releases.
The single player games like Spiderman and GOW will ALWAYS be better than these micro transaction games like Warzone and sports games like Madden and 2K.
Matt is the only person I've ever heard of who played Raid shadow legends for fun 😂
Forget "Pay to Win"
"Pay to Skin!"
Love this channel, even after watching Austin ride an electric scooter months ago, deciding off that to buy my own and instantly break both the radius and ulna in my left arm. Skill issue I know. I did get a 3 month vacation from work , unpaid of course, for it to heal. Lmao. Atleast I was able to game still.
17 minute This Is? Hell yeah
Matt you're not old, my first console was an Atari 2600, and I was 13 when I got it for Christmas.
The problem with using AI to make games is we’ve just had failed example of a game that seems like it’s made by AI, Concord
Sony is absolutely right to get in while the getting is good. I'm sure they see the horizon. Boomers, gen Xs and millennials are it. Look what the younger people has been raised on: Fortnite. Roblox. Tablets. They don't care about Fidelity and ray tracing and reflections. A whole new world is coming
I remember back in the day when if u wanted to play with mouse and keyboard get a pc, if u want a controller get a console
I work in the industry since 10 years now, and I honestly miss the PS360 area.
Dude Matt you need to get on Gamepass more an look up more reviews of games on it. Somerville, Jusant, Power Wash Simulator, Hello Neighbor 2, Firewatch, The Long Dark, Botany Manor just to name a few. Come on homie! There's a lot of good to be had. 🤘
Problem is for this gen consoles have been terrible for games. Where almost on the next gen and there hasnt really been alot where its like "wow this is amazing"
@@gatgat01 the Xbox Series X honestly hasn't been bad. Theres been a lot of fun stuff on Gamepass. Sadly Sony not so much. 6 exclusives in 4 years really sucks... My PS5 just sits there. Hoping the next four years will be better but it's not looking good. Kinda regretting buying it.
I don't understand why more classic books are not getting made into movies or 1hr weekly shows. Then they might could do some new games based around them...for example Forgotten Realms, DragonLance books etc etc
like any of the Brandon Sanders Books.....IF they could just take the DNA of what made Game of Thrones good and Remaster it into other series...
Stores like Best Buy only put cheap games on the shelf and keep the newer games at customer service or in the back to stop shop lifters
You're COOKING with this one.
Matt saying he's old and then saying the first console he owned was one that released when I was in Highschool ....
You guys forgot to mention that these huge game corporations barely pay their “employees” the developers that make the game any money.
At the end of the day, corporations not just gaming but everything in general, construction, automotive need to pay more. Inflation has made it into everybody’s paycheck no longer matters, but for some reason when we get bigger raises, they say this increase inflation??????
How come inflation doesn’t increase our pay. So we just go homeless and nothing matters??
As far as frames go. You first need a display capable of showing all the frames, you then need to be super human above like 120 fps because realistically it's just fun seeing a high number at that point. It won't make you a better gamer. Good 1% lows will though.
Also, as far as AAA games go. They're horrible today. The deadlines are like a week for certain things that should realistically take 2 - 3 weeks for testing and fixing things, and lots of the times it's worse for indie developers as they're being barked at by publishers to just push it out quickly. mainstream games are cooked and honestly indie game sites like itch are the only arguably good thing left.
WoW does it really well. Like Matt said, other than the Token it's all cosmetic. But, what they do is charge like $15 - $25 for an exclusive mount... that Mount will have a ton of features that in game mounts don't currently have... But, now that people have paid for the development of those fancy new mounts, a little later down the line, they use those assets (new skeletons, or animations etc...) on future In Game mounts.
So while you might not get the exact dame thing as a premium store mount, Mounts in the game overall improve. It let's blizzard experiment with minimal risk, and reward the entire player base with Top-Tier mounts moving forward... because all of the work is done, and they've already profitted from the Store Sales, so now they can just plop those features onto new mounts that every player can enjoy. And the cycle repeats.
If you can't afford a Store mount, within a year, you'll have something Comporable for free in game.
Mmmmm roadkill!
about A and AA studios using A.I. I thought it could help them because they wouldn’t have to take as big of a risk with stretching their budget thin with highering ppl. I know it sounds bad trying not to employ someone but sometimes smaller studios just can’t affford to pay someone a salary when they could make a one time purchase with an A.I. program.
Gaming is currently Frozen in a Freezer and will be Thawed out when the next generation of consoles come out at this point 😂
It’s pressure cooked and it’s about to blow. Billions and billions going into failing games, people’s jobs disappearing… it’s going to crash big time
Every now and then, you see a great game like Baldur's Gate and Black Myth Wukong and warhammer 40000 space marine where they upfront say we don't have any micro-transactions and we don't plan to implement it at all.
I would love to being up the fact that warframe is a VERY free to play game and can get really anything but cosmetics for basically free in some way. This game is available on almost every platform at this point, the battle pass system is free, and the story feels like something out of a Triple A game (personally anyway). I don't think gaming is dying, some people arnt looking in the right places
Kenzie just reminded me... This is all just a part of the class war.
What’s you’re completely glossing over is the fact that F2P games are made for WHALES, if you don’t spend ungodly amounts of money the gaming experience will be severely frustrtating. They are not worth it for most people in the long run.
Get on board with games like Palworld. It's the future of true gaming. Not this weird DLC/microtransaction thing we are currently trying to get out of.
Sadly, Palworld is dead now, thanks to Nintendo's lawsuit.
@@NoMore12345-z Nah, they only have patents in Japan and the patent is so extremely vague that it can't possibly hold up in court. I have faith the game will survive. It may be forced to change how you catch creatures, or something similar, but it will survive.
The game industry lost its ability to understand what it's supposed to do. It's not supposed to gather all of its sales and marketing data, see what's popular, and then regurgitate it in a never-ending feedback loop. The game industry is supposed to innovate, it's supposed to tell stories, it's supposed to offer people an escape that they enjoy. But the gaming industry fails to do any of these things.
The game industry crashed years ago and never recovered (Rageaholic has a great video on this). Now, the companies that are left are like dogs chasing their tales. They're rehashing what was already rehash with poor effort development, injecting woke themes, and then they act surprised when they've failed like they have for several years already (people just weren't sure if they could say the industry was failing back then).
It's sad to watch. It's even sadder for the consumer who spends hard-earned dollars on products and services that are inferior to what came out LITERALLY 15-20 YEARS AGO.
I remember thinking Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis were the pinnacle of gaming 😂
We need the aliens to give us some new tech its been awhile
A new human update, our bioware is broken.
Will only get worse once its all digital. Suspect the EU will eventually force Sony and Microsoft to open up the platform so games can be bought outside the PS / Xbox store.
I miss the old days when games didn't have to be connected to the internet and you got stuff from playing the game or gameshark/action replay it in
It's called planned obsolescence
Yh the moment games start getting ads I will quit gaming for good lmao
I've pretty much quit gaming. The reason why is because I like to buy a complete and finished game. I'm so tired of all this nickel and diming all these companies do now a days. Everything being subscription based is frustrating and annoying.
Or maybe you have just grown out of gaming? It is normal the more you age and gain experience for your interests , priorities and tastes to change, decrease or evolve.
actually you arent getting ANY extra framerates on the pro, its still 60fps. it just makes the backgrounds a little more clear and loads textures slightly faster. also they are trying to integrate AI into making games, and its a literaly joke, its soooo horrible they couldnt even get the OG doom to look right with AI.
I am still playing through my PS3 games that i did not finish.
The kids are the ones that suffer through this shit. I don't care about skins. I care about gameplay. But if there's some new cool whatever and your best friend has it and you can't afford it that really sucks.
The problem is that those games we want are taking longer to he made. Astro Bot is awesome. I wish companies made more shorter 15 - to 20-hour games that could be released in 2 to 3 years.
Gamers forgot the best way to play is to have a cool looking console and controller that you can display in your room and share them in socmed for others to get jealous 😅 . Oh that PS5 30th anniv looks really cool.
I have been gaming since the Atari 2600. To me there has never been a better time in gaming. There is so much choice, from subscription services to digital sales, to free to play. Gaming is now competing with movies and tv when it comes to entertainment .
@@chicago212000 only the 2600? Youngster. I remember when the original Atari came out and I was able to get it.
Speaking for myself here, the reason why I wouldn't buy as many games as I used to per year even if still had any money to speak of, is mostly the the trends in recent years that ruined many potentially interesting games for me:
- Bitesized games that only last for a handful of hours, but ask for AAA full price.
- All that mobile crap that is 100% centered on ripping you off and/or collecting your data.
- All the "Everything needs to have MP" mania that ruined quite a lot of SP games.
- All the "We MUST tick every possible box for every possible minority who might possibly be outraged" leading to token implementations that served only to utterly ruin the immersion and credibility of the developers/publishers.
And as for AI in Game Development, it's not just AI replacing human jobs and thus human job security, it's also a massive downgrade in quality... we all know how much hallucination is going on, how many weird artifacts still show up in almost any AI-generated image, and last but not least, that we're still so far away from truly intelligent neural networks, it'll invariably all be generic BS without a hint of soul, inspiration, personality.
Buddy!! Your old?? My first console was the magnavox odyssey 1973! Remember you had to stick the clings to the tv!?
Honestly, gaming is fine, for the most part. Rewinding the clock 10 to 15 years ago we were complaining about frankly the same or similar things with I think about the same list of companies, and probably the same people were grumbling about that stuff then. (Which is a whole can of worms I am not going to open). All pointing to one thing being clear, yes gaming is "cooked" but only if you view it as the same way you might have played it back in 2015 or 2016. As in you played the big multiplayer games and really only that. If you are primarily playing single player titles, honestly you're fine. Most of those games are full games and are really good. And even then, if you have nothing new to play, there's probably some backlog you have and you can always just chip away at that.
Greed is a terrible thing in big companies. The gap between rich and poor is bigger than it's ever been and they'll be taking advantage of it. Everyone knows kids don't like to be left behind their friends when it comes to gaming. Are the companies going to address that with kindness? No, they'll release more and more knowing rightly that parents will be panicked into buying whichever latest game or console the kid demands. Our suffering pays their wages.
So I think a thing that was missed out on is I really like the way Nintendo's been doing it. Don't get me wrong. Sucks that we had to wait this long for the switch 2. But I like how they are releasing a big game. So like we had breath of the wild but then they release a bunch of smaller games in between. So we got the Link's Awakening remake and other smaller games like that. And then we got tears of the Kingdom and instead of diving balls deep into making the next big Zelda game. They're releasing echoes of wisdom and I think that's where the big gaming companies are failing is they want to keep focusing on these giant releases, but they're not peppering anything in between them. I think that's all they would need to do. And I think it's causing us to lose out on some really cool concepts. Like I never thought a game like cadence of Hyrule could ever exist.
Where did you get that Kirby shirt?
Why can't I buy a game that is in full and just works without patches or updates and paid DLC. Since PS3 this just doesn't happen anymore!
I don't think the middle is going out. It definitely gets less attention. I think gaming companies all want to launch the next Fortnite, but gamers actually want the variety we used to get.
When every AAA game is more alike than different, and they all expect to be the next big thing, everyone is disappointed.
The problem is people still comparing PCs to Consoles even tho back in the day each platform had it's own execlusive games
I still play clash royal even if people say its pay to 🏆 win
But to be a free to play player you have to really enjoy the game due to the fact that you are almost always going to be further behind than those who pay and most all these games can’t do that because there’s nothing truly unique about them.
GT7 has microtransactions
The regular PS5 can already run 120 frames in Fortnite btw. The PS5 Pro doesn’t give Fortnite players any much benefits. Maybe’s running 120 frames consistently idk but it all depends on what display can handle 120
AAA Gaming is mostly cooked, yes. There are occasionally still good AAA Games .. but for me the Indie Sector is where the fun is. Granted they are most of the times not that impressive visually.. but they excel in gameplay and the best part is.. pay once for it and get a full game (talking Singeplayer here), no Battlepass, not always on, no microtransactions. So Gaming for me is still a lot of fun .. i just shy away from the AAA Sector.
I would have a watched an HOUR maybe 2 Hour DeepDive on this!
games are taking so much work to make that the $70 msrp isnt enough to cover it, its either microtransactions or a 120 dollar game.
Casual gamers are screwed by monthly subscriptions, pay to play and games where grinding is the alternative...
It's not worth paying a subscription to game occasionally, it's not worn paying money everymonth yo keep up with everyone playing regularly in part to play and you don't or can't put the time in to find to keep up with people playing daily... I just want to be able to play at my pace without being at a disadvantage to everyone else.
Bro making AAA games is so expensive right now, that if we players want more releases, are we ready to pay more?
Im still trying to catch up from 2020 games i wanna beat
IT'S RAW!
Yes!! Its burnt to a crisp cooked!! Bit I'm still gonna keep dinning and trying to eat the slop they serve us! But man, nothing is greater than left overs tho. Days gone, RDR2, W3, ER..I'm still eating good for now!
all I'm saying is a bo2 remaster will slap.
A Wii lil’ lad?
The thing about gaming is people settle into what they like so why buy a similar game
You dont need to make amazing games anymore, for the most part - you just need to make it good enough to let people shell out for microtransactions. The meta-gaming will do the rest, where people will defend and promote the game by themselves.
I don't play anything on my phone. I want a controller in my hand.
Idk my opinion is for everyone to broaden their genre pallet more. Hardware hasn't really matter since the ps4 and Switch came out. I'm currently drowning in games to play cause there so many rpg & platformer titles coming out.
You might not like it. I might not like it but the fact of the matter is that live service games are what the market wants. Look up what the most popular games are right now. You’ll see a trend. It’s basically all live service games… and Minecraft.
Gaming is probably headed for a crash. Even before people start getting tired of the nickel and diming. Game budgets are WAY out of hand. The spending in gaming is like handing a kid a blank cheque and dropping them off in a GameStore/ToysRUs.
These companies have stupidly spent their way into this hole, and are now desperately trying to win the lottery by making their own Fortnight, just to climb out.
Eventually this won't be sustainable and a lot of these companies will fold, if they can't adapt.
Sad for Annapurna Interactive
the problem is not live service games selling you skins its full price games or 40 dollar 50 dollar games doing it or games coming out broken and early adopters having to be play testers at 70 dollars or more depending on edition or locking away a portion of the game waiting a month or 2 then asking for 15 to 20 bucks to unlock that portion as dlc when it was clearly already part of the game and the lack of risk taking to make new ips its all remakes remasters and sequals and i get it shits expensive but when there no innovation no creativity the industry is going to die because its all the same game so there would be no point
I don't think we need hardware significantly more powerful than the PS3/Xbox 360. In fact, the Switch is sort of "proof" of that as it is just a little more powerful than those 2.
Thing is, better graphics is nice, but for the most part, the games aren't significantly better. Other than better graphics, I'm not sure that GTA VI will be much more fun than GTA 3 on the PS2. But, OK, there has to be a minimum. I think the PS3/XBox360/Switch are capable of putting close to photorealistic 1080p images on screen. That's good enough.
I started gaming on the Atari. Then the C64 and Apple II. I remember how much they managed to squeeze out of those units. I think there are very few games out that couldn't duplicate 90% of the gaming fun on the PS3.
Current hardware is in the doldrums. The next revolution will have to be from VR, AI, or some kind of control that is more than gamepads (like wii or kinect or whatever).
there are so many great older games to play that i dont have enough years in my life left to experience them. i couldnt care less about the future of gaming.
Buying skins do nothing for your game play, a complete waste of money
They don't make games like Sonic.Crash bandicoot .donkey kong country.origanl Mario
Subway Surfers, baby!
Still hoping to get a job at Overclock 🥺 where can I fill out an application?
Is that MKBHD's Mac on his shirt?
Honestly, video games are much much better now than they have ever been , it is just that WE OURSELVES are the problem.
I miss good games😢
This is why gaming is dead: Studios being bought and then consolidated into one. The employees are laid off because you need to cut down on costs to offset the purchase, then the employees that are still there are over worked and that causes poor quality. The need to turn a profit is the result in a poorly made game being released, games are much more graphic intense which means more time in development but games need to he turned out in 1 to 2 years to be profitable but because the amount of labor needed to complete the game in that time frame have been laid off. Then the game is in development for 4 plus years, gets released, doesn’t sell well then the studio is shut down. Now we get games that are being released from 2 generations ago just to make a quick buck.
I think VR is suffering the same, quest is an excellent alternative to pcvr but now developers are mainly making mobile quality quest games as its easy money instead of highly detailed pcvr games, it's a shame as I was a big vr enthusiast but last couple of years have only given us a handful of high quality games.