Hopefully it will end with AA games renesainse, during PS1/2/3 we had so many experimental games, it could happen again. You can't create good and unique games without taking a risk and creating new ideas or gameplay mechanics.
The first crash was because the industry was pupping out soulless copy and paste garbage.. The second crash is because they've learnt nothing from the first one.
But where also forgetting the other problems that comicsgate and Hollywood have been & still face and now the video game industry is following them along with many other industries.
The first crash was actually a combination of different conditions leading to it, such as an oversaturated console market, poor quality games, and a lack of publishing control (meaning just anybody, even inexperienced people, could legally make games and sell them)!
@@ajboomer1347 yeah the Atari VCS is actually a great console but they just don’t have the reputation they had with consumers in the late 70’s early 80’s today. It’s a shame because like I said I love my Atari VCS
Not just the entertainment industry. Western civilization as we know it is crashing. The USA elections wont make much difference. All the money and power is shifting to the east, especially China.
.. yes, and people like you guys continue to buy them despite being unfinished broken messes you continue to pay for early axes you keep paying for loot boxes and you keep having stuff like Disney+ subscriptions, but then you bang your little fist and stomp your feet when these companies abuse you and continue to abuse you stop giving them your money🤣
@@NostalgiaNet8 That's what is happening smartass, that's why those live service games are launching completely dead. People ARE waiting only the wait happens to be short until the game is delisted.
shout out to all the weirdos who when you name some of these poor quality examples,they will scream at you lol. they are part of the problem too, stifling the conversation for the last 15 years, allowing for this to happen.
If you guys are looking for a new shooter, a new hidden gem is coming called: the forever winter, they recently made a trailer dissing tripple AAA companies and their terrible practices Or go back to h2m!!!!
you make it sound like the games that make the most money are good unless you genuinely believe gambling games for weebs and kids are a million times better than ubisoft slop
Let it crash honestly. Tired of the BS they've been putting out and expecting players to pocket up $60-70. If we get less new games in 2025..we get less new games. I got my PS3 backlog to go through
I’m with you, I’ve stocked up on PS3, PS2, Vita and Switch games and dusted off the old consoles and I’ve got enough to take me through a decade. Today’s developers can do what ever and I’m going to be happy with my old but good and finished games without micro transactions.
If you guys are looking for a new shooter, a new bidden gem is coming called: the forever winter, they recently made a trailer dissing tripple AAA companies and their terrible practices Or go back to h2m!!!!
That’s why I never bought into live service games. Idc how popular the game is, I’m not renting a game for £60. I remember as a kid, I dreamed of a day where I could just have all my games digitally on my console without the need for inserting cartridges. I do buy the odd game there and now digitally but for the most part, I buy all the big titles physically to collect and make sure I keep them. I was planning on going all digital for the switch 2 so it would be more convenient but honestly it’s not worth the risk anymore. You never know when they could swipe the game off the store for good and also physical versions are always more charming to look at
@@stevenmcburney8167Digital has 2 benefits and nothing more, convenience and physical space saver, apart from that it is a complete con designed to make the companies the most money for as little effort.
It’s why I started up Thunder Force 3 on the genesis over the weekend and enjoyed the heck out of it! No services, no dlc, just start up and play. I really miss that kind of gaming
Yeah man I have a massive Steam backlog so I don't care, I only just got to Lies of P (great game), that is how far behind I am. I think I can sit out literally years at this point
Once again, Nintendo has it right. They might not be the most technologically-advanced, but they're innovative and fun games. And when you buy a Nintendo game, you get a finished game, not some buggy mess that needs months of patches to work decently.
Nah, I used to be a fanboy as well, but Nintendo has the worst decisions in the industry, their new copyright policy is just BS. BTW, WTF was that Pokémon launch? Do you call that finished?
Lack of content, unfinished games, boring games with nothing new to show off. Pay to win and always shoving politics and wokeness into the games. I sum it up for you guys.
@@johntrevy1 cannot argue with that. I quit back in 2019, haven’t really gone back. Never buy new releases, occasionally will replay old games worth while.
My Series X SSD failed, my console is bricked. I’m not paying $500 to replace it with a console that’s going to fail again, I’m going to buy a gaming Pc.
If you guys are looking for a new shooter, a new bidden gem is coming called: the forever winter, they recently made a trailer dissing tripple AAA companies and their terrible practices Or go back to h2m!!!!
@@SalivatingSteve I'm making the transition! In other words, same here. that and a PC portable handheld someday...as far as the gaming industry is a bit concerned...screw those ninth gen consoles...😡 ...except for the switch. 😁
@@kukri52231 I meant story in general. Not a narrative based game or anything like that. You can tell a story with very little words and it’s not a movie game.
I'd like to see a new company arrive with a new console that boasted no internet connection, no updates or dlc, just fun games released in a complete state which focused on gameplay over graphics. A console and games that we actually physically owned and could use for the rest of our lives without having them taken away from us. Y'know, something for the true gamers out there. We'd lap it up. If the industry wants success, that's what it needs to do.
you may have heard of "too big fail", but there's also "too big to succeed"; when expectations are so high that turning a profit doesn't mean success if the line for shareholders and CEOs doesn't go up. Infinite growth is never sustainable, who knew?
These channels never really cover that. It's always devoid of real critique that would provide real solutions but it's mostly regrettably bitching and moaning that another crash is coming lol.
It probably will be a good game as far as how much content is in the game, but it is definitely going to have some elements to it that are influenced by the current corporate obsession with LGBT/Racism/Feminism etc.
This is why more people are playing retro games. I just got one of those retro consoles, and I find myself playing games for hours like I did back when I was younger. And thankfully there's a lifetime worth of retro games that I haven't played yet.
I got a PS3 & PS4 with me so I should be good, I mean whats the point of getting a ninth gen console? It barely has any titles that has a whoa! factor, at least from the third up to the eighth generation of games, they took chances and make mistakes, plus it had pretty good everlasting appeal compared to the current gen... So we might as well jump ship of the gaming consoles (even though the switch is doing amazing). I rather get to PC gaming (and get a portable PC handheld in the future) then to spend 70 bucks, focusing on live-service, and having a wagon load of micro transactions and dlc on a sinking ship. As a sidenote: I dig indies and also retro games as well also.
It's a smaller consumer pool now. At least for those playing on PC and Consoles. The casuals moved on to mobile trash. And here in lies the problem. Executives are still pushing for games to be made as if that audience still exists on consoles. They haven't taken into account, who the remaining customer pool is and what they want to play. Which IS NOT LIVE SERVICE GAMES.
@@Doty6Stringit shouldn’t and it didn’t used to. Hiring thousands of devs, putting them on a time crunch schedule, then laying 90% of them off is a new phenomenon and it’s one that’s not working.
The corporate mentality isn't that these live service games will last forever. The leadership is only interested in strip mining the business to maximize profits now so they can reap bonuses and leverage their success to a bigger company to start the process over again. If the former company folds, they do not care.
This. A WHOLE lot of venerable game franchises are going to fall into a black hole in the coming few years when the disgusting megacorps who buy up literally everything eventually come face to face with the fact that permanent growth is not actually a thing that can happen in reality. This is vulture capitalism 101: Over leverage, bleed customer dry, bankruptcy, sell off company in pieces. And it's going to happen to VERY big names in this industry soon.
You forgot to mention why they do this: maximizing share value for the shareholders. Laying off workers boosts the stock value. Micro transactions boosts the stock value. Hitting ship dates regardless of if the game ready boosts the stock value.
Me too. As time goes by, they know how to make games that sells and people play. Just wait for the next Mario Kart game launch, next 3D Mario game, more Zelda games and remakes… we are eating good
Produce garbage and charge high prices, and your customers will abandon you. Throwing money or political agendas at it isn't going to save it if the games aren't creative, immersive and fun, with a good story.
When creative and passionate devs are replaced by cynical accountants and execs. When real gamers're replaced by quick-insta-fame-fake-gurus. By people who, back in the day, considered anyone of us who was computer savvy or a gamer, or had a Myspace profile to be 'a loser'. Now they use our tech to make sick money, share their vanity and destroy self-esteem of others. I recently made a deep dive video about X360 as the last great generation, I don't want to be right...
@@Jokerwolf666 Hi, yeah, and perhaps - if we're lucky - the history will repeat itself and we'll come full circle with smaller studios run by talented ppl will give us new classics. Just like in the 90's an indie studio ID Software gave us Quake and Doom.
Buying modern video game consoles suck anymore because today's video game companies are greedy, they want too much money for their products such as consoles (Both home and handheld), too much money for their games, they rush their games without play-testing them, etc.. Modern video gaming went from fun to just flat-out boring.
@SKOTxFREE stop coping and trying to bring up xbox when this is about a sony game. Also, redfall was FAR more successful than concord lol let that sink in.
A real crash seems inevitable. Scammy tactics, lootboxes, fake controversy, pointless remakes and remasters, making us beta test, charging $70 for half of a completely broken game, toxic communities, AAA skyrocketing in price and never having enough content or shipping with a patch it later mentality. Theres so many reasons ive had one foot out the door of video gaming for a long time now. My backlog isnt going anywhere
If buying their games isn’t “owning” Then pirating their games isn’t “Stealing” Companies that don’t understand this basic principle then they will FAFO.
@@etesansfin1327Although I think the chance that the Switch 2 will be more successful than the Switch 1 is very small, I do think that Nintendo will never have a Wii U situation again
@@Dairunt1 yeah not quite dude. ET was a horrible game no matter how you try to spin it. Concord isn’t a bad game, it’s just the same old crap that other companies have done to death but it plays ok
This is why I only play retro anymore, and not through a "service" where I have to worry about my games disappearing, endlessly updating without my consent, or just breaking, or otherwise stopping me from playing temporarily while waiting for server problems to resolve or god knows what else, etc etc. And most importantly, if not emulating, I OWN my games... something impossible to ever achieve with these endless... "services." I vastly prefer to play my games on my own terms, within my control... not some arbitrary corporation trying to nickel and dime me, while making everything fun about gaming... an endless frustration and a chore. This is why I've turned my back on the current game industry, and I couldn't be happier for it.
The video game crash of the 80’s only affected America, it didn’t affect anywhere else, like you said. As for a crash this year, Nintendo is swimming in cash, their latest financial reports showed them having something crazy like $14 billion in cash on hand, they’re doing just fine.
@@whitewall2253 here’s where your theory loses traction. If Sony goes down MS will follow. Xbox is going to need Sony to pad its Xbox financials and don’t think MS is going to fund anything at a loss. Now when you consider what I’m saying I’m talking consoles not the Xbox brand but if Xbox isn’t doing consoles I’m curious how many with Xbox will go pc?
@@SKOTxFREE Microsoft is a giant company with a million subsidiaries and a lot of different revenue streams, even if Xbox evaporates the company will survive. That's what I meant. Sony is basically movies and video games these days, it's in a lot more danger if a crash happens.
@@whitewall2253 I know but what I meant was MS is going nowhere. Xbox as a console might go but I have zero doubts that MS would just keep Gamepass and get rid of consoles. MS is too entrenched in pc’s to go anywhere anytime soon
Games don’t feel like they have the charm they used to have. I remember reading gaming magazines just getting so excited for a new game. I would play the game for a year. Now I can’t think of one game I can’t wait to get
Corporate Greed at the top is resulting in studios releasing half baked live service games we didn't ask for or unfinished games riddled with microtransactions.
Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy sold 20 million copies. Spyro Reignited Trilogy sold 10 million copies. Crash Bandicoot 4 sold 5 million copies. And they still decided to cancel Crash Bandicoot 5, scaled down the budget of Crash Team Rumble, and almost killed Toys for Bob.
8th gen was fucking amazing. 9th gen still feels like it hasnt even started. Remakes after remakes, not a single game that seems like it couldn't have been on PS4 five years ago
@@justintaylor3569 8th gen was ok but to me that’s when the downfall into 9th gen began. I ended up playing more indie games than anything No man’s sky, Drift RX, Day Z and even Pubg. Now granted Ghosts of Tsuchima was a masterpiece and I a few other games were great overall it was just ok compared to ps3 which mind you didn’t really get rolling until year 3.
@@SnipingIsFun It's technically still 8th generation, since it has outdated graphics and came out in 2017. The real 9th gen Nintendo console will be released in early to mid 2025.
The cause of any crash will be 1) adverse influence of woke ideologies, 2) lack of new ideas, 3) overly costly/long development times. However, there is such a massive backlog of games that any crash can be ridden out whilst the industry re-orientates itself
@ShinUltima Unnecessary or blatant injection of politically sensitive topics, (especially those which came about in the western world in the Mid to late 2010’s, continuing into the 2020’s) into video games. There you go
@@ShinUltima Battlefied V had a black female solider on the German side and BF removed swatiskas from the German uniforms. Sorry if a symbol offends people, but that thing the Germans and the holocaust... it actually happened in real life. Anyway, I'm not trying to speak for the OP but you wanted an example, there you go.
The day the rest of the AAA industry sees potential in making singleplayer Metroidvanias or collect-a-thons instead of making another multiplayer space shooter will be a great one.
Please no more metroidvanias. We already have hundreds of them. Bring back arcade racers, classic (old re style) survival horror, 3D platformers, physics based shooters, stealth, arcadey sports games like Sega Soccer Slam or SSX 3, etc.
Yep if game companies and developers are watching this STOP releasing multiplayer games you won't win against the Big 3, (1) Call of duty (2) Fortnite (3) Apex Legends . Focus on Single player games 👍
@mnaimi2964 on PC yes but i doubt it has more than Apex Legends overall counting all players EA app, Steam, Xbox, Playstation and not sure if the switch version still up
@@Nighthawk-8050 same here. Going through BOTW, Megaton Musashi, and Castlevania Dominus collection right now. I'd love to play Black Myth: Wukong but I can wait for a discount, even if it takes a year.
I hope they can maintain that defiance. They are being pressured by the ESG crowd really hard. Seems like they may start to cave and start the social engineering. I hope not.
Ive been saying it for years…we are playing the same game, they just put in a gun for a sword, turn a dungeon into a compound, swap out a creature for a human. Same view, same engines creatin all the same style of game. Very little variety compared to years/decades past.
I don’t need this industry to survive, I have more Nintendo games that I will ever be able to play, and the ones I do play, I’ve been playing them for decades non stop.
What we're seeing is all the crap that's been building for over a decade combining into the perfect storm. There's a big disconnect between the industry is willing to make and what its customers actually want. Concord is the poster child for that. Sony could easily make a Smash style hero shooter with iconic characters, and that would sell like hotcakes. But they released a derivative game that went chasing after a non-existent "modern audience", and spent a quarter billion on it. Nintendo, I think they'll be fine. Their biggest strength is a willingness to take risks and try new things. That doesn't always pay off (Virtual Boy, Wii U), but they're a lot more anti-fragile for their size than the others.
With the recent financial reports it was revealed that Nintendo legit has $14 billion in cash. Even if another Wii U failure happens I think they'll be fine in the long run
the crash is the same reason as back in the days with atari (which is ironic): poor quality games. People are getting increasingly tired of "AAA" games, they're starting to wake up and criticize them as soulless corporate products that release in a broken state and only focus on agressive monetization rather than providing a game that stands out and is fun to play. In my mind only indie developers are pushing interesting ideas nowadays and nintendo continues to make quality games that people enjoy playing. We also saw what is possible when you let an independent studio craft a "big" game like baldur's gate 3.
I hope the industry will start focusing on what consumers want, rather than what the executives want to force on us. Just imagine a live series tv show, where you pay 70 bucks up front to take part of something that might be good in the future.
Hi RGT 85 thank you for your video. I am 42 years old, from germany and a gamer for over 30 years. I think you re right with any thought you have. Video games are not the same like 10 years ago. Better graphics are a normal developing progress, but so many publisher let miss one important thing in making a video game! And that is the heart, the love you can feel in a lot of video games. I mean sometines we all can feel the magic in a video game like we do in Uncharted 2, Breath of the Wild, Metroid Prime, Super Mario Bros. 3, Dark Souls or Hollow Knight. I think the great crash is coming and everything getting cleaned and they will learn that passion and heart are the most important things for a videogame are and not money. Thx for your video. Your are great RGT.
so much ends up just being greed in the end. Live services, micro transactions, all that garbage is just corporate greed now cranked to max. I even put the lack of new game styles down to greed, and I am glad someone else has seen it and can say it so much all better than others could.
The people who used to laugh at you for liking games are now making games, and wondering why it fails. In the 2000s, and even early 2010s, games were made by people that loved them, and now they're made by people who hated those games and just make useless, sterile live services games and colorful walking simulators which no-one wants to play. That's why it's crashing.
I think the video gaming industry has gone too far with worrying about graphics. If we never had another graphics upgrade (other than a more powerful switch), I think these studios could recoup some money. Focus on making a fun game. So what if the graphics look like a Mario Odyssey or a Prince of Persia (the new 2D one)…Ori is a game that is fun and compelling and the graphics are fine. I don’t need a 300 million dollar Ori. Look at the graphics for the new Mario and Luigi game coming out! They are clean and very respectable. Idk. I want to see a renaissance of old school gaming and forget about massive budgets based on the newest hardware, for the next big graphics boost in tvs or monitors. Make games YOU want to play!!
I was on the sister system, Atari 800 around '84, '85. Games have gotten so much better (we don't even talk about "draw distance" anymore), but they've also become so bloated now. Thank god for Emulators.
I hated the 2600 when I was a kid. I grew up where my first game I ever played was Space Invaders which looked close to the arcade but fast forward to Pac-Man and my chance to own a 2600 and when my dad and I walked into the store and they had a tv up playing Pac-Man and I saw it, I told my dad forget it because it looked and played horribly.
C64, NES, SNES, Gameboy, Game gear, Mega Drive, 32X, PS1, N64, Dreamcast, then every Sony, Nintendo and Xbox to present day. I love gaming but it’s just not as exciting as it used to be. sometimes I think maybe I’m getting too old for the excitement as I’m in my mid 40s now but I always love playing retro games and occasionally games still get me excited nowadays but they are few and far between
@@johnrobinson7398 I’m 50 and like you I have many retro consoles and it’s not you’re too old, it’s these bland af games. I was just playing Felix the Cat on nes and it’s more fun than 99% of the games on either Xbox or ps5. It’s no coincidence that some of the most fun games for me on ps5 are the retro remakes and indie games.
Nintendo actually had the foresight of this during the Wii era. There was an interview with the late iwata commenting on rising cost of game development. Which was a factor as to why Nintendo underpowers their consoles.
I think it’s over too . These companies when they decided to stop physical games and profit off of digital with hardly any overhead now and they are doing worse than ever, back in the day cartridges cost a lot of money to produce you had the box , inserts the manual for the companies now they don’t have that cost anymore and there doing much worse. I’ll stick with my retro this generation is a turn off big time. The crash is coming
These companies need to look at Nintendo... Nintendo doesn't chase trends or have wildly over inflated budgets or do anything of these things, and as long as they stay with this formula, they'll be fine
14:38 Actually it wasn't the Sales of Days Gone that was issue it was the Metascore. Sony wasn't happy with the 70 it got and didn't greenlight the sequel.
I agree. As a self admitted Playstation fanboy the fact I still haven't acquired a ps5 is a telling sign. I have zero motivation to spend 500 bucks when there are no games to play. Almost all the games I can still get for ps4. The market is saturated putting out a great game doesn't matter anymore.
I just wish studios would understand that not everything has to be an online shooter. Not everything has to be multiplayer. If we could just get some solid single player games or some couch co-op games. I don’t think they know who their demographic is. In my opinion, the biggest video game audience are the people that grew up with them and are now in their 30s and 40s. Stop trying to take a bite out of call of duty’s pie and make something i can come home from work and just relax and play. I’ve been relegated to going back and playing Cyberpunk again. Assassins creed, Far Cry, Mass Effect, Fallout, where are THOSE type of games
@SKOTxFREE lol you are pathetic. Too bad the biggest AAA failure in history is owned by sony. There has never been an xbox game that failed this bad. Cope seethe mauld Sneed rage and cry soyboy
This is specifically a Sony and Xbox problem, not a video games in general problem. Nintendo fans are fine, PC people are fine. The console warriors are being snuffed out by their own overlords, and as a Nintendo fan first I'm all here for it
@@DarthAscension Yeah, people always forget that the WiiU was supossed to compete with PS4/Xbox but Nintendo failed miserably to then start their new Gen with the NSwitch
Nothing better then older games. My collection took along time and I enjoy it so much. I’m not worried about the future of games I won’t be buying anything new because it’s gonna sux anyways. ❤
I think Nintendo is the only company that won’t suffer from this. Xbox is relying on Gamepass too much, only buys up countless studios and has had barely any notable games, with the 1 studio that made a good game (Tango) they shut down. Sony is releasing barely any exclusives, trying so hard to market a ton of accessories like the PS portal, and is charging way too much for everything ($700 for a Ps5 Pro when the $500 Ps5 isn’t even worth it) Meanwhile Nintendo has had their most successful generation ever and spent the entire generation building back consumer trust. They’ve made new entries in almost all of their new IP’s and they’ve sold the best they ever have. If the rumored switch 2 comes out at $400 and has the power of a Ps4, Nintendo will be fine
And Nintendo has a great track record of releasing consoles with must have exclusives. With how slow it has been for them since totk I'm excited to see what they launch with.
Nintendo is going to flop with their next system. It won't sell close to the switch. You cannot make the same trick twice. The sales from Gameboy to Gameboy advance and Ds to 3DS were a massive decrease.
@blackdragon7038 Are you new? Xbox and ps are just pcs. And unlike other Nintendo consoles the switch isn't a gimmick it combined portable and console gaming perfectly.
Gaming on AAA titles has sucked for a long time. Micro Transactions, patching unfinished games. Content behind a paywall. Dude, could you imagine if music and movies did this? The gaming industry has been pushing their boundaries (luck) for at least 10 or 15 years. Ballooning budgets are the same issue that the movie industry is struggling with. These execs are being pushed harder by shareholders which in turn pushes everyone else. The issue is we need people that believe in long term strategy. These layoffs are reactionary to short term results
Actually, that would be a fantastic idea … they should’ve used AstroBot to make a Concord-esque game. Different costumes for Astro gives different abilities. It could literally have been a showcase for all of Sonys ips and could’ve been a successful hero shooter. Little cartoony, but I’d actually play the piss out of THAT game.
Another issue I think is that the game streamers get early access and practically get their characters or ranks super high (paid or not) once the average person gamer gets it. We give up, because we keep losing and don’t want to fork over a bunch of money to get minor upgrades for gear, charters, or boost.
Started up Thunder Force 3 on the Genesis over the weekend. No services, no dlc, it’s fantastic Also I’m becoming more convinced it’s all a huge money laundering scheme. A game should never cost 200 plus million to make and in top of that it bombs hard almost immediately. That money is going somewhere else
From what i have seen i have no clue how some of these games cost as much as they do to make . Like you said concord how on earth does that cost 250 million dollars .
America, UK and Japan? You mean EUROPE, not UK? UK consists of 4 countries, but it is part of Europe, which consists of 50 countries. Many European countries such as, Belgium, France, Italy, Spain, Netherlands, Germany, Sweden, Finland, Norway, Denmark, United Kingdom: England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland etc etc. had various consoles, including the NES back during those times.
I totally agree: corporate greed is ruining the industry, the publishers have learnt nothing from the past and developers are paying for the broken dishes.
It's not a crash, it's just that consumers have tolerated enough abuse from AAA companies and are now gravitating to indies who are less abusive, more innovative, and are more efficient. The layoffs are an opportunity for more indies.
This comment prompted me to check my steam library. I have 141 games. 60 of them have been made by indie teams and I love every single one of them. There is quite a bit of AAA trash in the list too. Made me cringe.
I’m gonna give an opinion that I don’t see anyone pointing out which is there is a huge over saturation in the market of games which is great for the gamers but not the devs who fight for our time and money
I remember during the last crash in the 80's I found brand new Atari 2600 games in a discount bin going for a buck a piece at Yellow Front. Picked up Sword Quest, another Yars Revenge and Pac-Man, which I already owned but the label was damaged. There were tons of copies of Adventure.
@@lemonlime8949 It is a fully co-op roguelite with 2 playable characters, The Knight and The Demon (Winged for flight) and is inspired by many games of the 16/32bit era.
I’m a gamer around your age. I hate live service games. They have ruined this entire generation of games. I hope a reset will bring back single player games but I don’t think that will happen.
Playing games in Trumpistan must be really hard, because the selection is so small: just one title named "Postal for Retards Edition". It's the one with now save states.
This isn't like 1983, when there wasn't a huge gaming market outside of North America. Things are much different. Microtransactions have turned me off from many newer games. The shift to digital downloads is a major mistake. Whatever changed to breed this "You will own nothing and be happy" mentality, it's wrong! Not everything needs to be "changed" for some pretended "better". If I'm going to buy a console, a game, anything, I deserve to actually own it! I love having physical media that I can hold in my hands and display on my shelves. When you switch to all-digital, a critical piece of the experience is lost! And why should everything be online-only? Why do they ship games unfinished at launch? Whatever went wrong, I don't like it one bit.
What is happening is just regular capitalism. I'm selling my PS5 after 2 years with it... Bought 4 games, didn't finish any of them. If it wasn't for Nintendo, I honestly wouldn't be playing anything for the last 5 years.
It is strange that these studios are closing down despite accepting blackrock's limitless propaganda money. Near endless funding is how trash movies and games have been getting made, after all. Disney would be gone by now without blackrock's initiative to "force certain behaviors". These layoffs and closed studios make it seem like that money goes into a few greedy hands.
HOLD ON TO YOUR BUTTS!
Well I did and nothing happen
@@come494same 😂
I’d rather not 😂😂
@@Waynesworldofgaming What happened bro? 😂
Hey Jurassic park Samuel Jackson quote”hold on to your butts” let’s go!
Video games aren't gonna crash, the AAA industry will.
And honestly, who'd miss them other than mommy's basement dwellers.
Retro is where it's at.
Hopefully it will end with AA games renesainse, during PS1/2/3 we had so many experimental games, it could happen again. You can't create good and unique games without taking a risk and creating new ideas or gameplay mechanics.
@@SamFeyand indies 😎
@@SamFey Everything AAA game isnt some slopfest
@@Dregomz02 at least they had a pretty good fun factor compared the current generation.
The first crash was because the industry was pupping out soulless copy and paste garbage..
The second crash is because they've learnt nothing from the first one.
But where also forgetting the other problems that comicsgate and Hollywood have been & still face and now the video game industry is following them along with many other industries.
When was the 1st crash? Or are you saying 2024 is the official 2nd crash?
The first crash was actually a combination of different conditions leading to it, such as an oversaturated console market, poor quality games, and a lack of publishing control (meaning just anybody, even inexperienced people, could legally make games and sell them)!
@@BUPMY1The first one happened in 1983. That's how Atari lost their footing in the market, and they haven't fully recovered since!
@@ajboomer1347 yeah the Atari VCS is actually a great console but they just don’t have the reputation they had with consumers in the late 70’s early 80’s today. It’s a shame because like I said I love my Atari VCS
It’s not even just games, but every facet of the entertainment industry is in a death spiral of greed, waste, and lack of creativity.
Pretty much.
Not just the entertainment industry. Western civilization as we know it is crashing. The USA elections wont make much difference. All the money and power is shifting to the east, especially China.
Because they focusing on dei instead of quality. It's all turning to sht
@@Muni_zklz Complete nonsense.
lol you're still thinking too small all of industry is in a death spiral of greed.
They are charging us $70 for unfinished games, they want us buying live service games when they don't even have 10 seasons worth of content.
.. yes, and people like you guys continue to buy them despite being unfinished broken messes you continue to pay for early axes you keep paying for loot boxes and you keep having stuff like Disney+ subscriptions, but then you bang your little fist and stomp your feet when these companies abuse you and continue to abuse you stop giving them your money🤣
"They are charging us $70 for unfinished games" then that's a you problem. Stop paying $70 and just wait for a sale.
@@NostalgiaNet8 Waiting for sale to buy the game anyway is a you problem. Don't buy the game at all and pay for games you actually like
@@NostalgiaNet8 That's what is happening smartass, that's why those live service games are launching completely dead. People ARE waiting only the wait happens to be short until the game is delisted.
@@NostalgiaNet8the relevance went right over your head.
The answer is simple, games got more expensive, but the quality got worse 🤷🏻♂️
shout out to all the weirdos who when you name some of these poor quality examples,they will scream at you lol. they are part of the problem too, stifling the conversation for the last 15 years, allowing for this to happen.
I feel like some of the PS5 games are improving on the mechanics of the 4
Excellent point.
Management certainly has gotten worse.
If you guys are looking for a new shooter, a new hidden gem is coming called: the forever winter, they recently made a trailer dissing tripple AAA companies and their terrible practices
Or go back to h2m!!!!
We control everything and we are tired of paying 70$ for unfinished, unoptimized, and unacceptable crap
you make it sound like the games that make the most money are good
unless you genuinely believe gambling games for weebs and kids are a million times better than ubisoft slop
Let it crash honestly. Tired of the BS they've been putting out and expecting players to pocket up $60-70. If we get less new games in 2025..we get less new games. I got my PS3 backlog to go through
Me too, but I need a new old stock controller. The one I got from gamestop had a battery refuse to charge in 3 months time.
People would loss there jobs families income would suffer in an already terrible economy. How do YOU feel about losing your job.
Same, started my ps3 up over the weekend. It still holds up pretty well for being a 18 year old system.
Yep I'm rocking ps4 and Xbox 360.
I’m with you, I’ve stocked up on PS3, PS2, Vita and Switch games and dusted off the old consoles and I’ve got enough to take me through a decade. Today’s developers can do what ever and I’m going to be happy with my old but good and finished games without micro transactions.
I don't want a service I want game. I'm sick of services pretending to be games designed to drain my wallet.
If you guys are looking for a new shooter, a new bidden gem is coming called: the forever winter, they recently made a trailer dissing tripple AAA companies and their terrible practices
Or go back to h2m!!!!
That’s why I never bought into live service games. Idc how popular the game is, I’m not renting a game for £60. I remember as a kid, I dreamed of a day where I could just have all my games digitally on my console without the need for inserting cartridges. I do buy the odd game there and now digitally but for the most part, I buy all the big titles physically to collect and make sure I keep them. I was planning on going all digital for the switch 2 so it would be more convenient but honestly it’s not worth the risk anymore. You never know when they could swipe the game off the store for good and also physical versions are always more charming to look at
@@stevenmcburney8167Digital has 2 benefits and nothing more, convenience and physical space saver, apart from that it is a complete con designed to make the companies the most money for as little effort.
You're doing good speaking with your wallet. I wish gamers could do it more often
It’s why I started up Thunder Force 3 on the genesis over the weekend and enjoyed the heck out of it! No services, no dlc, just start up and play. I really miss that kind of gaming
It's almost like refusing to listen to your customers and falling to give them what they actually want isn't a great idea
I already got thousands of games.let the crash come, I'll wait it out
😂exactly. Perfect time to conquer the endless backlog
Same
Yeah man I have a massive Steam backlog so I don't care, I only just got to Lies of P (great game), that is how far behind I am. I think I can sit out literally years at this point
Glad we all have big backlogs
We need another ice age , may get round to playing my backlog then
Once again, Nintendo has it right. They might not be the most technologically-advanced, but they're innovative and fun games. And when you buy a Nintendo game, you get a finished game, not some buggy mess that needs months of patches to work decently.
They chose to exit the horsepower race since 2006....if they wanted to they could easily come back into it..
Nah, I used to be a fanboy as well, but Nintendo has the worst decisions in the industry, their new copyright policy is just BS. BTW, WTF was that Pokémon launch? Do you call that finished?
@@GoOKuSj33Also, the MK1 launch, yikes
@@tcsutton9121PMSL you cite TWO games outta thousands, do you use Wikipedia too son???
Except for Pokemon.
Lack of content, unfinished games, boring games with nothing new to show off. Pay to win and always shoving politics and wokeness into the games. I sum it up for you guys.
Shut up about wokeness fox news and star wars fans use that word too much.
this guy: how can i make this about le woke
@@Whatacomedian_bro you still wearing a mask, just say you get no maidens. Go touch grass.
There are problems on both sides of the desk. Both Developers AND fans, I quit gaming because of both.
@@johntrevy1 cannot argue with that. I quit back in 2019, haven’t really gone back. Never buy new releases, occasionally will replay old games worth while.
They're charging $70 for broken games with expensive season passes and microtransactions. Additionally, 4-year-old consoles are being sold for $500.
My Series X SSD failed, my console is bricked. I’m not paying $500 to replace it with a console that’s going to fail again, I’m going to buy a gaming Pc.
PS5 starting price is $400
I live in Japan and the ps5 price was increased by 20%. Now Japanese gamers are starting to consider gaming pcs.
If you guys are looking for a new shooter, a new bidden gem is coming called: the forever winter, they recently made a trailer dissing tripple AAA companies and their terrible practices
Or go back to h2m!!!!
@@SalivatingSteve I'm making the transition! In other words, same here. that and a PC portable handheld someday...as far as the gaming industry is a bit concerned...screw those ninth gen consoles...😡
...except for the switch. 😁
Less graphics and horsepower. More gameplay and tell a story. Doesn’t have to be expensive and take years.
No. Not the story/movie games. We want more games like Nintendo games. Light on story, heavy on game.
@@kukri52231 I meant story in general. Not a narrative based game or anything like that. You can tell a story with very little words and it’s not a movie game.
To me the HD 2D games are perfect. They look great, are long games with fleshed out stories and they don't cost 200 mil to make.
The glory days of the PS2 where we got new Ratchet and Clank, Jak and Daxter and Sly Cooper games on a yearly basis.
Then what am I gonna use this $1500 gpu for....
I'd like to see a new company arrive with a new console that boasted no internet connection, no updates or dlc, just fun games released in a complete state which focused on gameplay over graphics. A console and games that we actually physically owned and could use for the rest of our lives without having them taken away from us. Y'know, something for the true gamers out there. We'd lap it up. If the industry wants success, that's what it needs to do.
Playstation 2
@@Subject-639 'new'
@@hermitadventurezone can't beat a classic.
ali express, retro handhelds.
@@Bob_Betty yeah but not just retro side scrollers or games already made and old. New games in the style of OG Xbox or GameCube era
1. Too expensive
2. Microtransactions
3. Bugs
4. Cut content
5. *Censored * dont mention that one, you'll get yelled at!
Is the censored word woke?
@@Undertaker93 any other topic the sjws will scream at you if you bring it up?
For topic "5", just use the correct terminologies: "ESG" & "DEI"
@@YuushaBR dont forget BRIDGEs.
Don't be afraid to express your opinion. This is TH-cam, not twitter. What is the 5th reason?
you may have heard of "too big fail", but there's also "too big to succeed"; when expectations are so high that turning a profit doesn't mean success if the line for shareholders and CEOs doesn't go up. Infinite growth is never sustainable, who knew?
These channels never really cover that. It's always devoid of real critique that would provide real solutions but it's mostly regrettably bitching and moaning that another crash is coming lol.
I believe that GTA 6 might be the indicator of whether we get a crash or not. If gta 6 sucks, the whole industry is doomed.
It probably will be a good game as far as how much content is in the game, but it is definitely going to have some elements to it that are influenced by the current corporate obsession with LGBT/Racism/Feminism etc.
I ain’t going to play it regardless. Tired of garbage AAA titles, and 99.9% indie titles are worse.
Fortunately, Rockstar usually cooks.
This is why more people are playing retro games. I just got one of those retro consoles, and I find myself playing games for hours like I did back when I was younger. And thankfully there's a lifetime worth of retro games that I haven't played yet.
Same. With emulation its also real cheap to play a 25 year old game that can last me several days or even weeks
Western AAA are not the only games that exist.
What console did you get?
I got a PS3 & PS4 with me so I should be good, I mean whats the point of getting a ninth gen console? It barely has any titles that has a whoa! factor, at least from the third up to the eighth generation of games, they took chances and make mistakes, plus it had pretty good everlasting appeal compared to the current gen...
So we might as well jump ship of the gaming consoles (even though the switch is doing amazing). I rather get to PC gaming (and get a portable PC handheld in the future) then to spend 70 bucks, focusing on live-service, and having a wagon load of micro transactions and dlc on a sinking ship.
As a sidenote: I dig indies and also retro games as well also.
Same, just played Serious Sam. Simple and fun
Gaming is too expensive now and gamers won't stand for mediocrity. Only the best games will get our money.
Tell that to the Pokémon series. Meanwhile new IPs get zero wave because they're swimming at the riptide of the sinking ship
@@jloomis7Black Myth Wukong and Stellar Blade are doing fine. Both are new IPs.
@dkres82 Palworld too. Pokemon is sucessful despite themselves. Never has anyone done less with more than TPC.
@@dkres82 Wukong yes. Stellar Blade only sold a million copies.
It's a smaller consumer pool now. At least for those playing on PC and Consoles. The casuals moved on to mobile trash. And here in lies the problem. Executives are still pushing for games to be made as if that audience still exists on consoles. They haven't taken into account, who the remaining customer pool is and what they want to play. Which IS NOT LIVE SERVICE GAMES.
250 mil for a game budget is absolutely insane. Games are exceeding movie budgets now
It takes thousands of people to make a aaa game. It’s potentially a bigger production than a movie.
@@Doty6Stringit shouldn’t and it didn’t used to. Hiring thousands of devs, putting them on a time crunch schedule, then laying 90% of them off is a new phenomenon and it’s one that’s not working.
@@Doty6Stringno it doesn't. Who lied to you
The corporate mentality isn't that these live service games will last forever. The leadership is only interested in strip mining the business to maximize profits now so they can reap bonuses and leverage their success to a bigger company to start the process over again. If the former company folds, they do not care.
This. A WHOLE lot of venerable game franchises are going to fall into a black hole in the coming few years when the disgusting megacorps who buy up literally everything eventually come face to face with the fact that permanent growth is not actually a thing that can happen in reality. This is vulture capitalism 101: Over leverage, bleed customer dry, bankruptcy, sell off company in pieces. And it's going to happen to VERY big names in this industry soon.
This is the reason. Facts
You forgot to mention why they do this: maximizing share value for the shareholders. Laying off workers boosts the stock value. Micro transactions boosts the stock value. Hitting ship dates regardless of if the game ready boosts the stock value.
I have this funny feeling that Nintendo is going to save the industry again.
Yeah like the wii U 😂😂😂😂 (edit: i started a war with the Nkidz 😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣)
Does Nintendo think that the Switch 2 will save them from the Video Game Crash?
Me too. As time goes by, they know how to make games that sells and people play. Just wait for the next Mario Kart game launch, next 3D Mario game, more Zelda games and remakes… we are eating good
@@etesansfin1327Completely ignores the Nintendo 3DS because only the Wii U blunder runs wild in your mind 😂
@@etesansfin1327no how about like the NES that got stores to carry games again.
Produce garbage and charge high prices, and your customers will abandon you.
Throwing money or political agendas at it isn't going to save it if the games aren't creative, immersive and fun, with a good story.
When creative and passionate devs are replaced by cynical accountants and execs. When real gamers're replaced by quick-insta-fame-fake-gurus. By people who, back in the day, considered anyone of us who was computer savvy or a gamer, or had a Myspace profile to be 'a loser'. Now they use our tech to make sick money, share their vanity and destroy self-esteem of others. I recently made a deep dive video about X360 as the last great generation, I don't want to be right...
Bingo sir 100% nailed it!
Ps4 was the last great 👍 it was too good
Indies are rising from the ashes.
@@SKOTxFREE Thank you, good sir!
@@Jokerwolf666 Hi, yeah, and perhaps - if we're lucky - the history will repeat itself and we'll come full circle with smaller studios run by talented ppl will give us new classics. Just like in the 90's an indie studio ID Software gave us Quake and Doom.
When games are developed by activists funded by Blackrock instead of passionate artists, this fellas is the end result.
Not even, the game would have faiIed either way because of Iiveservice
Elden Ring is the worst fromsoft soulslike.
I am not joking.
@@whitewall2253is it actually? I haven’t played that yet
@@whitewall2253i do agree with you. The devs sold out to mainstream
Source? Also, what did BlackRock do to get hate?
Buying modern video game consoles suck anymore because today's video game companies are greedy, they want too much money for their products such as consoles (Both home and handheld), too much money for their games, they rush their games without play-testing them, etc.. Modern video gaming went from fun to just flat-out boring.
In 1983, it was E.T.
In 2024, it was Concord.
@@ChaosUnfold in 2023 it was Redfall or have you forgotten that flop of a game?
@@SKOTxFREE Concord's peak was nowhere near Redfall's, Redfall peaked at 15,000 players, Concord peaked at 700 players
@SKOTxFREE stop coping and trying to bring up xbox when this is about a sony game. Also, redfall was FAR more successful than concord lol let that sink in.
Democrats ruin everything 😂 that's what happens when you go woke, you go broke
dustborn
A real crash seems inevitable. Scammy tactics, lootboxes, fake controversy, pointless remakes and remasters, making us beta test, charging $70 for half of a completely broken game, toxic communities, AAA skyrocketing in price and never having enough content or shipping with a patch it later mentality. Theres so many reasons ive had one foot out the door of video gaming for a long time now. My backlog isnt going anywhere
@@steakcrust558 hopefully they are forced to change when they see their profits dwindle
@@SKOTxFREE a stock market crash is inevitable seeing as the u.s is $35 trillion in debt and japan yen is doing bad
this will effect gaming also!
AKA everything wrong with gaming today all in one comment summed up.
Games should be $100 but top quality
@@sandman8920 No. Just no.
If buying their games isn’t “owning”
Then pirating their games isn’t “Stealing”
Companies that don’t understand this basic principle then they will FAFO.
Nintendo: "nah...we good" 😅
Yep. Nintendo knows that blowing your wad on production takes away from FUN.
Wii U, wii U 😂😂😂😂😂
They know their base will slurp down any slop they put out lol
@@etesansfin1327that was their crash. The rest just got theirs
@@etesansfin1327Although I think the chance that the Switch 2 will be more successful than the Switch 1 is very small, I do think that Nintendo will never have a Wii U situation again
Concord is this generation's E.T.
(EDIT: In the context that it's the poster boy of this generation's video game crash)
Conceptually I agree, but even adjusting for inflation, ET didn’t cost 200 million to develop.
@@Dairunt1 yeah not quite dude. ET was a horrible game no matter how you try to spin it. Concord isn’t a bad game, it’s just the same old crap that other companies have done to death but it plays ok
@Dairunt1 were you even around to make that equivalence ?
ET cost less and sold more
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This is why I only play retro anymore, and not through a "service" where I have to worry about my games disappearing, endlessly updating without my consent, or just breaking, or otherwise stopping me from playing temporarily while waiting for server problems to resolve or god knows what else, etc etc. And most importantly, if not emulating, I OWN my games... something impossible to ever achieve with these endless... "services."
I vastly prefer to play my games on my own terms, within my control... not some arbitrary corporation trying to nickel and dime me, while making everything fun about gaming... an endless frustration and a chore. This is why I've turned my back on the current game industry, and I couldn't be happier for it.
The video game crash of the 80’s only affected America, it didn’t affect anywhere else, like you said. As for a crash this year, Nintendo is swimming in cash, their latest financial reports showed them having something crazy like $14 billion in cash on hand, they’re doing just fine.
The big publishers are due another crash. Microsoft is diverse enough to make it and nintendo is nintendo but this is going to hurt sony.
@@whitewall2253 here’s where your theory loses traction. If Sony goes down MS will follow. Xbox is going to need Sony to pad its Xbox financials and don’t think MS is going to fund anything at a loss. Now when you consider what I’m saying I’m talking consoles not the Xbox brand but if Xbox isn’t doing consoles I’m curious how many with Xbox will go pc?
@@SKOTxFREE Microsoft is a giant company with a million subsidiaries and a lot of different revenue streams, even if Xbox evaporates the company will survive. That's what I meant.
Sony is basically movies and video games these days, it's in a lot more danger if a crash happens.
@@whitewall2253 I know but what I meant was MS is going nowhere. Xbox as a console might go but I have zero doubts that MS would just keep Gamepass and get rid of consoles. MS is too entrenched in pc’s to go anywhere anytime soon
+themailman Nintendo got ALL THAT and NO DEBT. Can you imagine?
The Western Video Game Reset of 2024 Is Here
Exactly so.
Hopefully big money leaves the industry and we can have our space back
Just say american
America is not the West.
@@jacksmith-mu3ee Exactly. Why do Americans say "The West" when they only mean America? America isn't the only Western country. Europe exists.
Games don’t feel like they have the charm they used to have. I remember reading gaming magazines just getting so excited for a new game. I would play the game for a year. Now I can’t think of one game I can’t wait to get
Corporate Greed at the top is resulting in studios releasing half baked live service games we didn't ask for or unfinished games riddled with microtransactions.
My video game era 1997-2024 damn what a time it was to be alive
NES-PS2 era for me.
95-05 = ‘Chefs Kiss’
@@BUPMY1 for me most of the games after xbox 360 and 2010 are trash
1992-2024. it was a good run
My era was 2002-2012
It is a consumer driven industry. Yet they often times don’t listen to us, the consumer, and wonder why their games fail. Suits aren’t people.
Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy sold 20 million copies.
Spyro Reignited Trilogy sold 10 million copies.
Crash Bandicoot 4 sold 5 million copies.
And they still decided to cancel Crash Bandicoot 5, scaled down the budget of Crash Team Rumble, and almost killed Toys for Bob.
It's like that episode of smiling friends with gwimbly
Ya because it wasn’t live service. Would’ve been a great game though
of course they decided to cancel Crash 5 . look at the trend: 20, 10, 5...
came here to ask for a Spyro 4.....HAHAHA we are basically saying the SAME THING HERE
@@OctopusTone they're finks for doing that...
...live-services are a bit overrated.
8th gen was fucking amazing. 9th gen still feels like it hasnt even started. Remakes after remakes, not a single game that seems like it couldn't have been on PS4 five years ago
@@justintaylor3569 8th gen was ok but to me that’s when the downfall into 9th gen began. I ended up playing more indie games than anything No man’s sky, Drift RX, Day Z and even Pubg. Now granted Ghosts of Tsuchima was a masterpiece and I a few other games were great overall it was just ok compared to ps3 which mind you didn’t really get rolling until year 3.
i wouldnt say amazin actually before the current gen 8th was one of the worst, it was mediocre
The only 9th Gen console worth it is the Switch
Same indie for me @@SKOTxFREE
@@SnipingIsFun It's technically still 8th generation, since it has outdated graphics and came out in 2017. The real 9th gen Nintendo console will be released in early to mid 2025.
The cause of any crash will be 1) adverse influence of woke ideologies, 2) lack of new ideas, 3) overly costly/long development times. However, there is such a massive backlog of games that any crash can be ridden out whilst the industry re-orientates itself
PLease define "adverse influence of woke ideologies". I'll wait.
@ShinUltima Unnecessary or blatant injection of politically sensitive topics, (especially those which came about in the western world in the Mid to late 2010’s, continuing into the 2020’s) into video games. There you go
@@ShinUltima Battlefied V had a black female solider on the German side and BF removed swatiskas from the German uniforms. Sorry if a symbol offends people, but that thing the Germans and the holocaust... it actually happened in real life. Anyway, I'm not trying to speak for the OP but you wanted an example, there you go.
The day the rest of the AAA industry sees potential in making singleplayer Metroidvanias or collect-a-thons instead of making another multiplayer space shooter will be a great one.
Please no more metroidvanias. We already have hundreds of them.
Bring back arcade racers, classic (old re style) survival horror, 3D platformers, physics based shooters, stealth, arcadey sports games like Sega Soccer Slam or SSX 3, etc.
@@Manic_PanicI am agree with you we need different type of genre
We got Gow, Spider-Man Ghosts, tlou and horizon
@@jmelz155 don't care about exclusive
I’ll take a multiplayer space shooter if there is no sbmm and the characters aren’t fat lesbians with blue hair
I've said for a while that small developers and indie games are what's keeping gaming alive right now.
Yeah, and people want more higher graphics.
Graphics are nothing
Gameplay and Story is the Key.
Yep if game companies and developers are watching this STOP releasing multiplayer games you won't win against the Big 3, (1) Call of duty (2) Fortnite (3) Apex Legends . Focus on Single player games 👍
CS2 literally has 5x more players than apex, just sayin
@mnaimi2964 on PC yes but i doubt it has more than Apex Legends overall counting all players EA app, Steam, Xbox, Playstation and not sure if the switch version still up
And stop with the Souls like or EA open world formula. Do something different.
Nintendo (selling over 150 million consoles and hundreds of millions games): hold my Switch 🤘🏼
I'm spending more time playing with my Nintendo Switch than I do with my xbox and playstation.
@@Nighthawk-8050 I’m spending more time with my switch and retro consoles than Xbox and ps5 too.
@@SKOTxFREE Yes! I've been massively into retro gaming lately. Every week on pay day I go onto Ebay and pick up a few games
1.3 Billion games LOL
@@Nighthawk-8050 same here. Going through BOTW, Megaton Musashi, and Castlevania Dominus collection right now. I'd love to play Black Myth: Wukong but I can wait for a discount, even if it takes a year.
Nintendo doesn’t give a sh*t.
I hope they can maintain that defiance. They are being pressured by the ESG crowd really hard. Seems like they may start to cave and start the social engineering. I hope not.
No question PS5 sucks. But I haven't been interested in a Nintendo console since maybe N64.
@@BUPMY1Xbox sucks too, don’t forget them in all of this.
Jews don't have influence on their games.
Well when idiots buy a 2017 game for $60, yea they don't care.
Ive been saying it for years…we are playing the same game, they just put in a gun for a sword, turn a dungeon into a compound, swap out a creature for a human. Same view, same engines creatin all the same style of game. Very little variety compared to years/decades past.
I don’t need this industry to survive, I have more Nintendo games that I will ever be able to play, and the ones I do play, I’ve been playing them for decades non stop.
I got my PS3 backlog
What we're seeing is all the crap that's been building for over a decade combining into the perfect storm. There's a big disconnect between the industry is willing to make and what its customers actually want. Concord is the poster child for that. Sony could easily make a Smash style hero shooter with iconic characters, and that would sell like hotcakes. But they released a derivative game that went chasing after a non-existent "modern audience", and spent a quarter billion on it. Nintendo, I think they'll be fine. Their biggest strength is a willingness to take risks and try new things. That doesn't always pay off (Virtual Boy, Wii U), but they're a lot more anti-fragile for their size than the others.
With the recent financial reports it was revealed that Nintendo legit has $14 billion in cash. Even if another Wii U failure happens I think they'll be fine in the long run
"The UK had their little weird computer things"
DUDE... 😂
Clive Sinclair is turning in his grave
the crash is the same reason as back in the days with atari (which is ironic): poor quality games.
People are getting increasingly tired of "AAA" games, they're starting to wake up and criticize them as soulless corporate products that release in a broken state and only focus on agressive monetization rather than providing a game that stands out and is fun to play.
In my mind only indie developers are pushing interesting ideas nowadays and nintendo continues to make quality games that people enjoy playing. We also saw what is possible when you let an independent studio craft a "big" game like baldur's gate 3.
I hope the industry will start focusing on what consumers want, rather than what the executives want to force on us. Just imagine a live series tv show, where you pay 70 bucks up front to take part of something that might be good in the future.
Hi RGT 85 thank you for your video. I am 42 years old, from germany and a gamer for over 30 years. I think you re right with any thought you have. Video games are not the same like 10 years ago. Better graphics are a normal developing progress, but so many publisher let miss one important thing in making a video game! And that is the heart, the love you can feel in a lot of video games. I mean sometines we all can feel the magic in a video game like we do in Uncharted 2, Breath of the Wild, Metroid Prime, Super Mario Bros. 3, Dark Souls or Hollow Knight. I think the great crash is coming and everything getting cleaned and they will learn that passion and heart are the most important things for a videogame are and not money. Thx for your video. Your are great RGT.
so much ends up just being greed in the end. Live services, micro transactions, all that garbage is just corporate greed now cranked to max. I even put the lack of new game styles down to greed, and I am glad someone else has seen it and can say it so much all better than others could.
The people who used to laugh at you for liking games are now making games, and wondering why it fails. In the 2000s, and even early 2010s, games were made by people that loved them, and now they're made by people who hated those games and just make useless, sterile live services games and colorful walking simulators which no-one wants to play. That's why it's crashing.
They have no idea what they are doing.
Source?
I think the video gaming industry has gone too far with worrying about graphics. If we never had another graphics upgrade (other than a more powerful switch), I think these studios could recoup some money. Focus on making a fun game. So what if the graphics look like a Mario Odyssey or a Prince of Persia (the new 2D one)…Ori is a game that is fun and compelling and the graphics are fine. I don’t need a 300 million dollar Ori. Look at the graphics for the new Mario and Luigi game coming out! They are clean and very respectable. Idk. I want to see a renaissance of old school gaming and forget about massive budgets based on the newest hardware, for the next big graphics boost in tvs or monitors. Make games YOU want to play!!
I started on atari 2600 in 1986 so ive been lucky enough to see such evolution in games
I was on the sister system, Atari 800 around '84, '85. Games have gotten so much better (we don't even talk about "draw distance"
anymore), but they've also become so bloated now. Thank god for Emulators.
@@Clippers0507 I started on NES and I thought gaming started to go backwards with the 360/Wii/PS3 era.
I hated the 2600 when I was a kid. I grew up where my first game I ever played was Space Invaders which looked close to the arcade but fast forward to Pac-Man and my chance to own a 2600 and when my dad and I walked into the store and they had a tv up playing Pac-Man and I saw it, I told my dad forget it because it looked and played horribly.
C64, NES, SNES, Gameboy, Game gear, Mega Drive, 32X, PS1, N64, Dreamcast, then every Sony, Nintendo and Xbox to present day. I love gaming but it’s just not as exciting as it used to be.
sometimes I think maybe I’m getting too old for the excitement as I’m in my mid 40s now but I always love playing retro games and occasionally games still get me excited nowadays but they are few and far between
@@johnrobinson7398 I’m 50 and like you I have many retro consoles and it’s not you’re too old, it’s these bland af games. I was just playing Felix the Cat on nes and it’s more fun than 99% of the games on either Xbox or ps5. It’s no coincidence that some of the most fun games for me on ps5 are the retro remakes and indie games.
It definitely feels different now. I've never bought less games in my entire life.
I'm just kicking back with my popcorn and watching what happens.
There ain't gonna be no crash for Nintendo. Nintendo is gonna come out smelling like a rose😎
Glazing a company. Pathetic.
@@Raptorclawz If Nintendo is the only company producing future consoles, most likely I'm out. Didn't have interest in GameCube/Wii/WiiU/Switch.
@Final_Dawn aaaaaah...... You saaaaaaaaad? You need me to come burp ya?
Go back over there with ya anime waifu, ya neckbeard ----->
@@Raptorclawzglaze on yo face sucka!!!!!
Game development was short for Nintendo now in this new generation it will take a couple of more years to push out games
10:37 that stash is solid bro
Nintendo actually had the foresight of this during the Wii era. There was an interview with the late iwata commenting on rising cost of game development. Which was a factor as to why Nintendo underpowers their consoles.
I think it’s over too . These companies when they decided to stop physical games and profit off of digital with hardly any overhead now and they are doing worse than ever, back in the day cartridges cost a lot of money to produce you had the box , inserts the manual for the companies now they don’t have that cost anymore and there doing much worse. I’ll stick with my retro this generation is a turn off big time. The crash is coming
These companies need to look at Nintendo... Nintendo doesn't chase trends or have wildly over inflated budgets or do anything of these things, and as long as they stay with this formula, they'll be fine
I agree. Nintendo as a company has a lot of problems but you can’t say they can’t make much more fun games with a lot less than the triple AAAs can
As a European i NEVER experienced that so called GAME CRASH
Like he stated in the video, it was localized to the US.
@@floorpizza8074 I know, saw it later too
14:38 Actually it wasn't the Sales of Days Gone that was issue it was the Metascore. Sony wasn't happy with the 70 it got and didn't greenlight the sequel.
...I still want a Master System and an N64 mini that I can hack.
Absolutely. The lack of an N64 mini upsets me to this day.
Yes
@@Marc_Araujo just wait for Analogue to drop their N64 console allegedly coming out this year. You can hack that thing and play carts.
Just put batocera on a spare USB drive and emulate , find your roms at internet archive .
Just get a Wii and hack it which is dead easy and put everything on it also it’s cheap you will spend more on a controller than the console !
I agree. As a self admitted Playstation fanboy the fact I still haven't acquired a ps5 is a telling sign. I have zero motivation to spend 500 bucks when there are no games to play. Almost all the games I can still get for ps4. The market is saturated putting out a great game doesn't matter anymore.
Good, it's been a correction that's needed to happen for a long time. These executives will know that their greed will cause their own downfall.
I honestly feel like this is why most indies are doing better then the triple a games
Exactly indie games for life 😊
I just wish studios would understand that not everything has to be an online shooter. Not everything has to be multiplayer. If we could just get some solid single player games or some couch co-op games. I don’t think they know who their demographic is. In my opinion, the biggest video game audience are the people that grew up with them and are now in their 30s and 40s. Stop trying to take a bite out of call of duty’s pie and make something i can come home from work and just relax and play. I’ve been relegated to going back and playing Cyberpunk again. Assassins creed, Far Cry, Mass Effect, Fallout, where are THOSE type of games
Celebrity Death Match:
ET vs Concord.
@@Cosmic_Charles ET vs Concord vs Redfall in a triple threat match.
@SKOTxFREE lol you are pathetic. Too bad the biggest AAA failure in history is owned by sony. There has never been an xbox game that failed this bad. Cope seethe mauld Sneed rage and cry soyboy
This is specifically a Sony and Xbox problem, not a video games in general problem. Nintendo fans are fine, PC people are fine. The console warriors are being snuffed out by their own overlords, and as a Nintendo fan first I'm all here for it
Nintendo ain’t fine… they skipped a generation if that don’t worry you then you are as blind as those “console warriors”
Sony is still fine, too. They put out one bad game, and people act like they're dying.
One of those console platform holders is also the biggest pc publishers.
@@DarthAscension Yeah, people always forget that the WiiU was supossed to compete with PS4/Xbox but Nintendo failed miserably to then start their new Gen with the NSwitch
@@apollodingo3583 their PC market will survive that's not even in question, it's their console market they're destroying.
Nothing better then older games. My collection took along time and I enjoy it so much. I’m not worried about the future of games I won’t be buying anything new because it’s gonna sux anyways. ❤
I think Nintendo is the only company that won’t suffer from this. Xbox is relying on Gamepass too much, only buys up countless studios and has had barely any notable games, with the 1 studio that made a good game (Tango) they shut down. Sony is releasing barely any exclusives, trying so hard to market a ton of accessories like the PS portal, and is charging way too much for everything ($700 for a Ps5 Pro when the $500 Ps5 isn’t even worth it) Meanwhile Nintendo has had their most successful generation ever and spent the entire generation building back consumer trust. They’ve made new entries in almost all of their new IP’s and they’ve sold the best they ever have. If the rumored switch 2 comes out at $400 and has the power of a Ps4, Nintendo will be fine
And Nintendo has a great track record of releasing consoles with must have exclusives. With how slow it has been for them since totk I'm excited to see what they launch with.
Nintendo is going to flop with their next system. It won't sell close to the switch. You cannot make the same trick twice. The sales from Gameboy to Gameboy advance and Ds to 3DS were a massive decrease.
@blackdragon7038 Are you new? Xbox and ps are just pcs. And unlike other Nintendo consoles the switch isn't a gimmick it combined portable and console gaming perfectly.
Gaming on AAA titles has sucked for a long time. Micro Transactions, patching unfinished games. Content behind a paywall. Dude, could you imagine if music and movies did this? The gaming industry has been pushing their boundaries (luck) for at least 10 or 15 years. Ballooning budgets are the same issue that the movie industry is struggling with. These execs are being pushed harder by shareholders which in turn pushes everyone else. The issue is we need people that believe in long term strategy. These layoffs are reactionary to short term results
Concord would of worked if it was all Playstation characters.
Actually, that would be a fantastic idea … they should’ve used AstroBot to make a Concord-esque game. Different costumes for Astro gives different abilities. It could literally have been a showcase for all of Sonys ips and could’ve been a successful hero shooter. Little cartoony, but I’d actually play the piss out of THAT game.
Don’t worry Kingdom come deliverance 2 releases feb 2025. Things will be okay.
Jesus Christ be praised!
Another issue I think is that the game streamers get early access and practically get their characters or ranks super high (paid or not) once the average person gamer gets it. We give up, because we keep losing and don’t want to fork over a bunch of money to get minor upgrades for gear, charters, or boost.
As streamer I won't upgrade my gear to next generation because of the economy
Amen, RGT! Modern corporations Are clueless!!
Whoever wasted 40 dollars on Concord needs to get their brains checked because it makes no sense
Started up Thunder Force 3 on the Genesis over the weekend. No services, no dlc, it’s fantastic
Also I’m becoming more convinced it’s all a huge money laundering scheme. A game should never cost 200 plus million to make and in top of that it bombs hard almost immediately. That money is going somewhere else
From what i have seen i have no clue how some of these games cost as much as they do to make . Like you said concord how on earth does that cost 250 million dollars .
America, UK and Japan?
You mean EUROPE, not UK?
UK consists of 4 countries, but it is part of Europe, which consists of 50 countries. Many European countries such as, Belgium, France, Italy, Spain, Netherlands, Germany, Sweden, Finland, Norway, Denmark, United Kingdom: England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland etc etc. had various consoles, including the NES back during those times.
I totally agree: corporate greed is ruining the industry, the publishers have learnt nothing from the past and developers are paying for the broken dishes.
Old games are just better. Bought a custom DS on Etsy and have been playing tons of games I missed out on back when I had a PSP
Better how?
@@Diogo85 - they’re designed to be fun rather than than just hooking you on buying skins and DLC packs.
@@CJP.-pq3kr Modern games are fun and designed to be fun.
@@Diogo85 they’re designed to promote THE MESSAGE
@@Diogo85 or prey on gambling addiction
Gaming for sure is not the same
It's not a crash, it's just that consumers have tolerated enough abuse from AAA companies and are now gravitating to indies who are less abusive, more innovative, and are more efficient. The layoffs are an opportunity for more indies.
This comment prompted me to check my steam library. I have 141 games. 60 of them have been made by indie teams and I love every single one of them. There is quite a bit of AAA trash in the list too. Made me cringe.
bloated intro. skip to 2:38 for the start of the video.
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I’m gonna give an opinion that I don’t see anyone pointing out which is there is a huge over saturation in the market of games which is great for the gamers but not the devs who fight for our time and money
I remember during the last crash in the 80's I found brand new Atari 2600 games in a discount bin going for a buck a piece at Yellow Front. Picked up Sword Quest, another Yars Revenge and Pac-Man, which I already owned but the label was damaged. There were tons of copies of Adventure.
It will happen. Nintendo aggain wil be on top. Physical and thriving. Modern games look good but are getting so familiar.
Luckily the crash isn't going to affect our game.
Indies will take over the industry, It is their turn!
What’s your game
@@lemonlime8949 It is a fully co-op roguelite with 2 playable characters, The Knight and The Demon (Winged for flight) and is inspired by many games of the 16/32bit era.
What’s your game?
@@Dragonrider1227 We have a few names in mind. For now it is "Untitled Knight's & Demon's Game" until we choose one.
I’m a gamer around your age. I hate live service games. They have ruined this entire generation of games. I hope a reset will bring back single player games but I don’t think that will happen.
1. Get woke, go broke
2. No more micro transactions
3. No more season passes
4. No more half-baked, buggy releases
Woke is a buzzword that means nothing, focus on actual problems in the industry and not buzzwords.
Come on, Snake Daddy! "Woke" is such a lame, tired strawman. 2, 3 & 4 are the problem.
Playing games in Trumpistan must be really hard, because the selection is so small: just one title named "Postal for Retards Edition". It's the one with now save states.
Using the word woke like a parrot 🤣 man y’all are such sheeple. You get off on using this word woke. Points 2-4 I agree with.
Nintendo survived in 1983 and they will lift the industry again in 2025 💪🏼
@@Retr0gam1ngR0cks Nintendo didn’t have a console in America in 1983 they only had the Famicom in Japan. NES didn’t come out in America until 1985
This isn't like 1983, when there wasn't a huge gaming market outside of North America. Things are much different. Microtransactions have turned me off from many newer games. The shift to digital downloads is a major mistake. Whatever changed to breed this "You will own nothing and be happy" mentality, it's wrong! Not everything needs to be "changed" for some pretended "better". If I'm going to buy a console, a game, anything, I deserve to actually own it! I love having physical media that I can hold in my hands and display on my shelves. When you switch to all-digital, a critical piece of the experience is lost! And why should everything be online-only? Why do they ship games unfinished at launch? Whatever went wrong, I don't like it one bit.
@@SKOTxFREE I know mister know it all, but glad you got the point 👍🏼
What is happening is just regular capitalism. I'm selling my PS5 after 2 years with it... Bought 4 games, didn't finish any of them. If it wasn't for Nintendo, I honestly wouldn't be playing anything for the last 5 years.
It is strange that these studios are closing down despite accepting blackrock's limitless propaganda money. Near endless funding is how trash movies and games have been getting made, after all. Disney would be gone by now without blackrock's initiative to "force certain behaviors". These layoffs and closed studios make it seem like that money goes into a few greedy hands.
Give a visionary dev a million dollars and he could make a good game.
Right on.