You think it’s just the executives? In fact, I would argue they align with our interests MORE than the people making games, the actual devs. Not that it means much. The executives, all they care about is making money. They don’t care how they do it, they just want to satisfy investors. Ok fair enough. I don’t like their practices and won’t buy them but the biggest issues in the gaming industry is the cultural aspect of it that are being pushed forward by the lower guys, the devs. They are the MAIN ones ruining the gaming industry because they don’t care about money. They care more about the cultural push into DEI which is losing them plenty of money. Them losing millions on their games is then indirectly impacting their console development. Executives need to first go back to the old mentality. Hire the best people for the job. Once that’s done, those same people will create efficient environment that won’t drive the cost of the whole company. I’ve seen too many people blaming the executives and ignoring the people at the bottom like as if the executives were gone, all of a sudden, their games would have been better.
Evidently they don't care about their own profit either because who the hell would waste money buying this garbage. That kind of money can get you a good PC that will last longer.
The gaming industry said going digital only would make games cheaper. It didn't. The gaming industry are saying they need to nicklel and dime gamers because it is more expensive to develop games for. It isn't. The gaming industry said gamers wanting the best graphics is why games are more expensive. It isn't. The gaming industry said they need to cut jobs because they need to cut redundant jobs because they are too costly. It isn't and they are posting record profits. The video game industry is run by morons who lies like they are Pinocchio and if they could sell their own family to make even 1 cent more, they would.
And let's not forget the idiots in suit who argue 40-70 is too cheap. Can't remember exactly who said it but given the industry's track record, there might be others who said something similar.
@@coffeebean_tamer Yes a big way as you see the tactics they use on mobile games come into normal gaming that and fortnite is what is killing games today as everyone ones the fortnite gravy train of money they make so everything is online and battle passes now even in games that don't even need battle pass have them.
Creative and talented devs replaced by accountants and execs. Real gamers replaced by quick-insta-fame-fake-gurus. People who, back in the day, called us 'losers' cuz we were gamers or loved Anime. Now they use our tech to make sick money, share their vanity and destroy self-esteem of others. I made a deep dive video of X360 as the last great generation, hope I'm wrong.... Great video as always.
You forgot that creative talent got replaced with activists, the higher ups got replaced with paperpushers and people that have never touched a game in their whole life. What is really bad is no one is really innovating, it is always going after trends insted of seting them.
I remember playing ps2-3 for hrs, even before I got online. I beat mass effect 2 insanity raw on my (only MS console lol) 360... A major boost to self esteem to this day. Outside of nier, bloodborne, some adv mov shooters... I mean I got into my 1st fighter tekken, a childhood button mash lol. I agree with you alot, ps4 era just felt like gaming becoming... commercial. I love this medium, but it's definitely moving away from me. I already have a shxtty laptop lol, MCC ain't do bad on low settings. 💯
@@KNGDDDE Hi, thanks for your feedback. I agree; PS4 era introduced intrusive DLC content; always online feature to really enjoy or achive something; day one patch big as an entire game and they tried to push this whole game as a service idea where you don't really own your library anymore.
Just buy physical then? It's worth it even though it's way more expensive. Even more so in the digital age. You can always sell your old phyaical games for a bit of cash. Might even get lucky and end up owning a collector's item. Not so much with digital stuff.
I don't want ray tracing. I don't want more fps. I don't want any deluxe edition. I don't want early access. I don't want battle pass or loot boxes. I don't want to pre-order. I don't want a sleek design. I JUST WANT TO PLAY A FUCKING GAME!!!
So a console gamer? I DO want ray tracing more FPS. What kind of person wants horrible FPS? I have played and enjoyed many early access. I do agree with the rest.
@@TT09B5 we don't need fps past 120, hell 60 is perfectly fine but nah we need a billion fps and all muh pretty and fluffy graphics with zero substance
Morons dont know what they are doing. These guys know very well what they are doing. They are psycopaths, literal psycopaths, by the clinical definition of it.
But would shareholders really want to invest in a product that nobody wants to buy? I mean the video game companies are eventually going to have to sell SOMETHING otherwise it's just a bubble that is waiting to pop, which will result in the shares plummeting in value. If people would just hold on to their money and just wait for a game that is genuinely worth 130 dollars, this would destroy their entire business model and either ruin them or force them to actually make a good game.
It's sad. Every new generation feels like the "fun" of videogames takes more of a backseat as they turn games into chores. It's why my gaming history the last few years are filled with the occasional next-gen game surrounded by a flood of older titles.
Same. I almost exclusively play retro or indie titles these days. I've purchased 3 big games since 2015. Witcher 3, Baldurs Gate 3 and Ghost of Tsushima for PC. Witcher 3 was on a massive sale. BG3 is more of an indie game but with a big budget. So Ghost is really the only AAA game on the list I've payed full price for. I spend more money on original PS2 games than modern videogames each year. I could easily pirate and emulate them. But money is not the issue. I like to own them in my collection. Meanwhile I don't even bother pirate modern AAA games.
On the bright side, it means I can worry less about needing to make a new computer build to run newer titles as majority are boring/slop/crap. I do find myself mostly going back and playing older games I grew up with and some I missed out on, or were translated because they were never released over here on the NES and upwards. NES, SNES, N64, GEN/32X/CD, Saturn, Dreamcast, PS1, PS2, GB/C/A, DS/3DS, GameGear, PSP. I got so many games to choose from, even on original hardware for some since I still have a bunch of older systems and a CRT that still works. Using mostly S-Vid or higher when able, with only a couple on composite. I find all these older titles vastly just more enjoyable and fun nowadays compared to most new stuff by big companies. Mostly indie stuff has any interest to me for new things, and SOME-times something from a big company might get my attention like Wukong or Stellar Blade.
True. I have a high end gaming PC but it feels kinda wasteful most of the time as I spend most of my time playing indie and retro games. Or retro consoles. Its great for emulation though I guess. And the very rare and once in a while AAA game like Ghost of Tsushima. But the positive is that I don't have to worry about upgrades for a decade if the gaming industry continues like it has for the last decade:P
I only got like 50games in the last 14years since the 360 era all together.....thats sad. Mean while my library of games i love from the past is probably over 2,000
@@gentlesirpancakebottoms6692bg3 is the singel furthest thing u can get from an indie game Honestly it has more uncommon with football then indie games
My only problem with my ps3 is that some games are not availible to pkg download nor can I found them in my country. Atleast aquiring new games is easy (would be If i wasnt poor) take as an example: Nier. I would have to pay more than 300 bucks for a copy. Demon souls? Found one for 500
It isn't just the video game industry. It's society in general that lacks leadership and creativity. This is the culmination of generations of cuts made to the arts and civics.
Funny thing is that the only argument against it is that it cuts away potential sales, but if these companies aren't selling these old games anymore, there is literally no reason not to emulate
@@Thetiredpotato11did it cut away from ps2 sales? Nope, was the most succesful console of its generation and it was backwards compatible, so that arguement fails. Its why im a pc gamer, can play pc games, and take nostalgia trips with emulators, snes, megadrive, ps1 ps2, ps3, wii, wii u. So many games!!!!
Part of the reason people hate Todd Howard is that he went from an actually decent game developer/director to a perfect suit circa fallout 3/Skyrim’s development.
It's why Outlaws failed... Even "woke" I might have bought it from any other company, my Last Ubisoft game was Sparks of hope and they shoved a service I didn't need along with MTX so intrusively in the game I barely got past the tutorial before moving on to another game... I might actually be willing to buy a GotY version of the first game and the sequel barely got me past a tutorial.
Oh looook. It’s the eight millionth time someone has posted this joke this week. Get it? Because he used their saying against them. It’s funny the eight millionth time you hear it.
A real life fake wizard is never late, nor is he early, he drops bomb ass videos precisely when he means to. Good job keep it up. Cant wait to see this channel blow up.
@@RealLifeFakeWizard doesn't surprise me, coverage of that particular article got blacklisted by google, and any criticism was largely met with massive amounts of gaslighting
Its not just nostalgia either. When the ps2 and original xbox came out, people who were in their early to mid 20s at the time have a fondness for that era. Meanwhile you have teenagers and kids crapping on this modern gaming era. Trust me, its not just nostalgia. Theres a quantifiable decline in the quality of gaming these days.
Gaming used to be like sitting down to an entire 5 course meal with all the trimmings and trappings, cooked by chefs who loved the food and wanted everyone to share in what they loved and had created. Now games are fast food, cookie cutter meals that keep you full but there's really nothing nutritional in there, the food's dead on arrival, the chefs don't really care and in a lot of cases seem to openly hate the people they're cooking for and anyone not eating at this new shit-hole is a bigot.
I grew up on the SNES, N64, and PS2. It was the best time. After that, I went to PC. The Switch brought me back to console gaming in 2019, and the Steam Deck brought me back to PC last year (I sold my Switch to get one). I'm sticking with PC from now on. 😂
Nothing feels better then playing old physical titles. I’m running windows XP 32bit and it plays 98% of old games the odd one won’t work because of pixel shaders that my video card doesn’t have but that’s no big deal. ❤
If you ever had the misfortune to work in retail the biggest rule is customers is always right. Yet somehow gamers are the only customers that are lied to, lectured, dismissed, blamed, scapegoated, labeled, oh and we are never right. Its time for us to just stop buying games from companies that don't value our money because at the end of the day that's what they want. Lets cut that off
I've always hated that the game industry, out of any industry, gets away with this crap. When they should be putting their customers first. They would be nothing without their customers yet they treat us like crap & they treat us like idiots. Why does the game industry have to be like this now??
I will never understand this customer is always right BS. We don't have that here in the Netherlands. The rules here is: Customer is king. Which is also BS. The customer is a pain in the ass is what that rule should say. I'm glad i don't have to deal with customers. The day i have to will probably be my last at that company.
@@sean7221 It's one of the first things I bought when I finished my build. System Shock Remake and Black Mesa were fantastic ways to start my PC library.
@@peterc3262You own the games you buy on GOG and you own Steam games with no DRM. If you need internet to download an obligatory patch when you put the disc inside the console, you dont own that disc.
You're right. 100% right. I miss the PS3/Xbox 360/Wii era of gaming. But I know that it's already too late. The only sliver of hope for gaming would be to tank AAA gaming as a whole or as a concept and give money to indie developers.
not only is it the shareholders but the players who support this slop, mainly CoD comes to mind, it baffles me that so many people are willing to spend so much on in-game purchases
Its even more embarrassing for Sony when you realize you could use that 700$ to buy a Steam Deck OLED with 1TB of SSD storage and still have 50$ left over lol.
It's really not. This is what happens when gaming starts making mega bucks and the boards and banks and other businesses take notice, get involved and bring business mentality to it. It's not politics, it's not Twitter, the "wokies" aren't out to get you. It's business and it's been squeezed too hard and we're all feeling it.
@@YISTECH I reiterate the first line of my comment. Even the prime example I seem to get regarding companies that failed because of "woke" (Volition) didn't crash out because of that; but people prefer feelings over facts, so...
I'mma be real, the moment you said "And remember: Cancel Disney+" I double checked and went: "How the f@#$ am I not subscribed to this man already!?" So yeah, that earned you a subscribe.
PlayStation had the opportunity to convince PlayStation 4 & PS4 Pro players to move on to the PlayStation 5 Pro, but instead the total opposite happened now PlayStation is basically saying keep playing on your Playstation 4s & PS4 Pros while we charged $700 for PS5 PRO, plus a additional cost of $80 for a disk drive plus an additional $30 for a vertical stand basically scalping our own customers of giving us $810. No....F*** u Sony, console gaming used to be the cheapest route to have access to gaming but instead you basically did a Apple move and Gone full PC. Yes all of us here did expect it to remain $500 or $575 for the PlayStation 5 Pro but instead PlayStation or arrogant Sony got greedy didn't learn anything from the PS3 era.
Not to mention the pro costing significantly more in Canada and the uk... god knows how much it'll cost in kangaroo land... I hope this shit sells like concord, I hope this pro console becomes the next ET game disaster, I hope making this shit costs sony so much money that it forces them to rely on their dev studios to go back to passion driven games instead of super safe open world/liscened marvel games. Also for even more laughs I hope they never make back their investment they made on bungie
They also had the opportunity to get us ps4 hangovers to upgrade to ps5 by dropping the price of base model. In 2016 when they released the ps4 pro they dropped the price of ps4 slim to $300 with uncharted 4 bundled in, and put ps4 pro at the ps4 launch price. That’s when I upgraded from ps3 to ps4. However now it’s been 4 years and the base ps5 is still $500 with only a handful of games that aren’t cross gen while the price of living has skyrocketed and the generational leaps are diminishing returns for long term gamers who have seen things like the jump to 3d or jump to hd.
This is exactly me lmao I game on my ps4 pro and waited to head over to the ps5 pro, or at the least a much cheaper base ps5. This only makes me want to invest in a gaming pc and say to hell with consoles. Between games being cheaper usually and being able to play old games, consoles are soon to die out if they don’t either drop prices to compete or really reinvent the wheel with gaming somehow.
@@HereComesTheSmartAlecPC also allows you to use mods, which can enhance games to be better and have more content than on console. If anyone here decides to build a PC, I'd recommend using PCPartsPicker, great way to make sure everything is compatible and find the best prices on parts.
Sony doesn’t actually want to sell the PS5 Pro. Releasing it is just a power play to show their dominance over Xbox this generation. If people actually buy it, Sony knows they can raise the price of the PS6 in a couple years.
Yeah, they saw that Xbox said they’d be skipping this generation and so Sony decided to flex their huge muscles in our face. I will always bet on the more humble, secure brand. It shows confidence in their plan.
@@percy3711 Said they'd be skipping this gen? As if they have any say in the matte,r they have no games. They've been out of the running for 2 gens now, they ain't coming back
PS4 Pro sold 14.5 million units over its lifetime which was around 12% of total PS4s sold. The Pro version even at a lower price with a disc drive was a niche market.
The price of pc's is vastly overstated. If you want a top end rig that will give you the best performance you'll find anywhere It will cost a lot. But you can get a PC for about the same price as the PS5 Pro that can match it for performance, and you won't have to pay 80 bucks a year to play your own games online. You don't have to pay exorbitant amounts of money to own a PC, 700 dollars can get you plenty of power.
Real issue here: Sony's fanbase. They're too comfortable, predominantly thanks to the schtick of game exclusivity. Sony delivers you cookie cutter, safe, movie games. Along with borrowing the Ubisoft formula; releasing the same spiderman game three times with minimal innovation between instalments. But the fans LAP that shit up. Henceforth, Sony thinks they have the Apple touch: The ability, and audacity to make egregious pricing decisions with ultimately inconsequential backlash, due to the loyalty of the userbase. In conjunction with a borderline monopoly on the industry. They ain't there, but they clearly want to be. I'm just glad we aren't letting it slide.
While Sony is indeed getting arrogant, I'm sick of people calling the games "movies." Where is the "movie" in Returnal? Why not just skip the cutscenes in games if you don't like them? If you feel you aren't being challenged enough, why not change the difficulty level?
While Sony is indeed getting arrogant, I'm sick of people calling the games "movies." Where is the "movie" in Returnal? Why not just skip the cutscenes in games if you don't like them? If you feel you aren't being challenged enough, why not change the difficulty level? To my understanding, the only game that is intentionally a "movie" is Until Dawn, and possibly Detroit as well. If the game doesn't play like Heavy Rain, then it's not a "movie." I had a hard time passing certain endgame challenges in Uncharted 4, Horizon 1 (2 only took me a couple tries to beat the last boss), God of War 2018 and 2022. I don't consider those moments "movies."
There's another massive advantage to getting a PC, we'll always have indie games. I know a good amount of them get ported to consoles, but if you want to play the majority of these games that were made with GENUINE PASSION, you'll find them on PC or a Steam Deck. Also all the PlayStation and Xbox games are coming to PC anyway, so I have literally 0 reason to buy either.
Downside is that it's hard to own anything on a PC. It has pretty much entirely lost physical media. Every disk just links straight to steam where you own nothing. If i own the disk on an Xbox I can play it without the internet. I own it. Good luck installing a PC disk while offline.
You're absolutely on the money about Pokemon Scarlet/Violet. I got the game as a gift and I still wanted my money back. The frame rate and glitches were just unacceptable, especially considering the previous game, Sword/Shield played beautifully. Some slowdown, yes, but nowhere near as bad as its sequels. The fact that Game Freak and the Pokemon Company did nothing to address the frame rate and glitch issues also raised my ire. It's gonna be a while before I buy anything new from them again.
They did try and fix it... But the game was still too un-optimized... Z-A is there last shot with me, if it comes out late 2025, I'll pick it up, early with another in the same year, never picking up another Pokemon game again. This is the best case scenario, if they delay the game to 2026, then I'll preorder it because these guys learned there lesson!! And yes I would pay 70 dollars to play Red, Blue, Yellow, Silver, Gold and Emerald on my Switch, and I would like to have Virtual Console come back too!!
This is what happens when you fail to train your coders. I cannot remember the mans name, but he was pretty much THE GUY that optimized the previous games. He died and took that knowledge with him.
Oh my god yesss Pokemon Scarlet/Violet. Ugh. I'm praying Z-A has better quality, I don't know why Gamefreak won't put in the effort. Surely they can afford it with how impossibly well Pokemon games sell.
4:40 somebody forgot that every game in the 2000s dropped with a separate PS3/360, PS2, DS, and Wii version, almost always being completely different platform to platform.
I too think that... TOO BAD I CAN'T EVEN BUY ONE BECAUSE IT DOESN'T SELL HERE. i literally go to the dang website to see the prices and cannot buy it. Amazing.
I miss this series so much. I recently setup my old Xbox 360 so I could play this game. I was obsessed with messing around with the physics when it was released
@@johno1544 Thats a fair point that most folks cant or wont build their own but im talking about very specifically self built. Going with used parts I cant make a banger 1080p build with ample storage for $700. I mean look at things like LTT scrapyard wars, they do the same thing there and go all used and build some decent rigs. Its possible, you just gotta be patient and willing to put the time in.
@@scotthallgv If you can build your own that's certainly the way to go. Even if you spent say $1000 to $1300 to buy a prebuilt one, Once your start factoring in the bonuses PC has like not having to pay for online gaming, ease of future upgrades, mods it really starts closing the gap between a $700 PS5 pro
This is why I enjoy being a Indie game enjoyer. There are still Devs out there with a passion for the craft of video gaming and there are plenty of indie games out there that are so much fun
Couldn’t agree more. I always say it, that era was the peak of gaming and it will never be as good again. Now all we have are greedy, graphic obsessed games. What’s even worse is that i see people defending this who actually claim they will buy regardless. I am retiring from modern gaming. We have thousands of games up until 2020 that we can enjoy after all.
@@falconeshield yeah let them enjoy their soulless realistic games. I’m not even sad to retire from modern gaming because I know it’s never getting better again.
@@iljun3089 The PS2 era was the best, with the 360 era a close second. There’s stuff from 2004 to 2012 that is simply much better. I refuse to play modern games.
@KratostheThird same. I refuse to play games beyond 2020. But to me ps3/360 era is the best because the graphics are in between realistic and artistic. E.g. oblivion, skyrim, watchdogs, arkham, amazing spiderman, dark souls, dragon age, etc. We could have stayed there. No need for ultra realistic games now.
@@Highlander77 I bought persona 4 golden for 11 bucks yesterday. I pirate 10's of terabytes each month, and persona 4 is the only persona game that had its DRM removed. Pirates buy good games when the prices become reasonable or they feel like it's genuinely worth it.
You couldn't be more spot on with your analysis. I'm actually blown away how well your points came across and how relatable you are in general. Don't stop doing what you're doing!
My good old games I still play: Left4 Dead, Orange Box, F.E.A.R 1 & 2, Condemned 1 & 2, Dead Space, 1&2, Mass Effect, Black, etc. Not ever getting rid of these.
Hell yeah, my lists the same except it has Fallout 1-4, MGS3, Halo 1-3, Deus Ex 1, Half-Life 2, Metro, and Saints Row 2. May our classics remain great until the end of time.
He should have worn a different costume when he was playing a Nintendo executive. At the very least he should have been wearing a business suit with the rest of his fake wizard getup.
Oh they’re morons alright. They just also prey on the morons among us who will still buy their crap. Because let’s face it, people will still do which contributes to the fall of gaming.
I just want to say that I don't care about the video topic in general, but the 'real life fake wizard' persona was so hilarious from the thumbnail it made me click and watch anyway. Keep it up.
The ps5 pro has been in development for at least a year and a half. There were multiple points where Sony could have stopped it, but out of the inability to read the market and pure greed chose to release it.
I don’t even own a PlayStation five and I haven’t had any reason to. I still am happy with my PlayStation 4 in my previous consuls and I am now within the last couple months finally got my first proper computer and doing videos on TH-cam.
@Highlander77 the funny thing is you could be right but, I genuinely don't know what you're talking about. If you like slop, that's fine, I used to eat it up too when I was younger. I've been gaming on the pc for about 7 years now and have totally forgotten about any series that was console exclusive. I watched all of my favorite game series on the console turn to trash. It's what drove me to the pc in the first place.
Honestly back than PS3/Wii/Xbox 360 era i wanna say was a golden age for gaming BUT. . . During the transition to PS4 and Xbox One you could feel the drop in quality and the loss of creativity along with the inability to innovate. Now with the mediocrity of PS4 and Xbone far behind us we enter the brain dead mess of PS5. . .I'll tell you this I was a gamer as a child loyal to the Sony brand. . .I vowed id never buy a PS5. Sony had variety back in the day PS1 to PS3 you saw the different genre. Now Playstation games are a genre because it's the same generic slop over and over again.
I haven’t bothered honestly. I have old PC games and emulators for stuff dating back to the 90’s and 2000’s. That era was a much better time for gaming. Sad to see what’s happened to it.
Fuelled by the lack of competition in the portable market (PS Vita went bust and Nintendo ruled the roost). This also had huge negative impacts for Sony and MSFT, who steered away from AA titles and "fun" games, to massive big budget experiences. And then pushing that for every game. And if a game can't be made into that, it gets thrown into lock and chain.
I remember how excited I was for the "future of gaming" when I was playing Halo 3 on my Xbox 360. If only I knew that was as good as it was ever going to get, or that eventually "AAA" would become an insulting description of a game meaning "Soulless, sterile, boring, overpriced, unfinished liveservice trash"
@@slapshotjack9806 Why would I waste any amount of money or time on a mediocre console that is just going to collect dust and get in the way? My PC is already way more powerful and useful than any console. Besides, it's not like consoles have any exclusives that aren't complete garbage. Maybe you have buyer's remorse, and this is how YOU are coping with it. Because your parents won't give you enough to buy a gaming PC. Absolutely delusional console fanboys
@@slapshotjack9806 I think maybe you're mad because you have buyer's remorse from wasting your allowance money on garbage, and now your parents won't give you enough money to afford a PC. So this is how you cope with it. Why would I buy a console if it's just going to collect dust and get in the way? There's not one console exclusive game that is even remotely good or interesting, and my PC is already way more powerful than any console. Even if it was 50 dollars, I wouldn't buy it. It's not even remotely worth it.
My favorite game to come out of the PS3 era was definitely the LittleBigPlanet series. I didn't give it a shot at first but when I did, I absolutely fell in love with it. I stuck mostly with the main entries with my only spin off being the PSP title. I would've gotten the Vita edition, if I had a PS Vita. It's such a shame the servers for LBP3 were unceremoniously discontinued. It felt like Sony personally stabbed me and many others through the heart. That comment about them not having many IPs when they just unceremoniously killed off one of their best truly pisses me off to no end. Whatever flops and hardships come their way, deserved.
Exactly. While Sony continuously want to push their Last of Us/God of War style games, the smaller franchises that actually made them the company they are today, are languishing in chains.
I'm a pc guy but I will defend them on one point... They make for very easy to set up single task machines... Want to just play a game or watch a movie, plug it into your tv and the wall, maybe grab an update, and you're off to the races...
I'm right there with you. The "next-gen gaming" has been absolute trash. I phuckin hate gaming today. I laughed my A$$ off when I heard how much the PS5 pro cost and it didn't have a disk drive. Lol what a p0s.
In the 7th gen of gaming, there were tones of new games being released. But they were shorter games, and people complained about them all being too linear. People kept playing new games all the time. Today, we are knee deep into the live service games. People find 2 or 3 games they like, and just play them forever, not doing anything else.
GTA4, gears of war 2, Assassins creed 2, red dead redemption, prototype, burnout paradise, Arkham series , resident evil 5, dead space 2 & max Payne 3 were top tier games released in short span of time
Yeah game companies want the grial of absolute control on the players libraries, no mods, "no playing older games or previous release" just hold people hostage to whatever they want to put on their o line subscriptions, and when they get a new game, the ability to remove old games so you are forced to play the new one, or the new, pointless "remake" of a game that might even be still in the same system, and getting a remake just for money. Or "justify" a pro device
I mean, I know this is oldish but didn't rockstar try to delist the older GTA games when they released that collection, that turned to be not great and lazy, like the upscaled graphics where done poorly to a point a donut place that had a donut statue ended up with an octagon or something, and text removed or replaced by nonsense due to the ai text scanning used failed to read it?. And people were somewhat annoyed. Yet that meant, if you didn't own the games before, now your only option was the collection. Despite the fact prior to release they were readily available online to purchas. Imagine a world where the next FIFA game comes out, and all precious versions are forcibly shut down, or delisted/removed, perhaps with some free "fake currency" bonus to previous owners for whatever micro transactions the game might have. Certainly would make it "easier" on the companies, when they don't even have to compete with their older versions, and thus make the minimum effort to "update" since they know you have no other option.
Halo & Mass Effect. I started playing games with Halo. As we got two xbox consoles for the rec room on base. I remember being offered cigs for my spot on games night.
One of the reason why the cost of living is so high. Is cause of corporations wanting us to vote against our interest. So let the corps deal with it now.
I have all three of them, Nintendo SWITCH, PlayStation 5 and XBOX Series X and let me tell you, you are a Legend and I agree with you. Liked and subscribed.
I've got the Switch Lite, and it's pretty good. Granted it's the Lite version, but I've had it for about 3 years now and it's going along nicely. I'm content enough with my purchase. I'm gonna save up for the second Switch, though. The last thing I want is for me to buy a proper Nintendo SWITCH just for the new generation to be announced a week later lol
Sony have tons of those franchises from the PSP/PS Vita era, but they refuse to develop any new titles for them. Or even just release some remasters for them on current gen. Like... there's a ton of PSP/Vita exclusives that aren't available for current gen.
I managed to get an old PS3 recently that was about to be thrown out. Opened it up, cleaned it out and stuck a skin on it. Then I stuck a 500GB SSD and completely modded it with Custom Firmware. I have access to every digital game released on the system from all regions. I’m pretty much set for years to come. Absolutely no need for a PS5 or XSX at this point. I would definitely recommend doing the same.
@@GenkiStarLeaf I have a Super Slim model I bought in 2012, and it still works fine. I played GTA IV back in the day on the 360 in 2008 when it came out, never finished the story. I have a physical copy of the game on the PS3 and I plan to play it this weekend.
@@KratostheThird You can install HEN on the Super Slim if I’m not mistaken. Still a great option to go for, if you’re thinking of modding it. Get an SSD for it too to get the best performance out of it.
Great video, although one complaint is that you mention that in the 360/ps3 generation nobody was supporting older consoles, but the ps2 was getting new games even into the ps4 generation.
For decades, consumers had to pay extra just because it's SONY. From audio transistor radios, reel to reel audio, Trinatron TVs, Walkmans, Discmans, and Playstations Sony always charged as much as the market could bear. The console debacle is just the latest. This generation doesn't have a killer game and introducing a Pro mid gen is only good until the Playstation 6 in early 2027 or 2028. It comes down to the game developers to code the games for fidelity and not make them ugly. Likely, what would happen is the Playstation 5 quailty will be worse to make the Pro look better.
I guess you forgot when Sega was in the market and tried to push the Saturn out for 199.99 day of announcement, then the Sony representative walked up and said "99.99"
Babe wake up. The almost daily video from real life fake wizard has dropped
real life fake wizard
The almost daily part shows your a true fan 👍🏿😎
we need fake life real wizard.
@@5226-p1emy brain hurts
Babe wake up someone posted the most copy pasted cringe comment on earth again!!!
It’s almost like the executives don’t have our best interests at heart
You think it’s just the executives? In fact, I would argue they align with our interests MORE than the people making games, the actual devs. Not that it means much.
The executives, all they care about is making money. They don’t care how they do it, they just want to satisfy investors. Ok fair enough. I don’t like their practices and won’t buy them but the biggest issues in the gaming industry is the cultural aspect of it that are being pushed forward by the lower guys, the devs. They are the MAIN ones ruining the gaming industry because they don’t care about money. They care more about the cultural push into DEI which is losing them plenty of money.
Them losing millions on their games is then indirectly impacting their console development. Executives need to first go back to the old mentality. Hire the best people for the job. Once that’s done, those same people will create efficient environment that won’t drive the cost of the whole company. I’ve seen too many people blaming the executives and ignoring the people at the bottom like as if the executives were gone, all of a sudden, their games would have been better.
it's the ushering in the NWO or in other words, the one world government society they are ushering it, basically communism.
They care about quick profits and naive buyers
@@jesspeedNo
Evidently they don't care about their own profit either because who the hell would waste money buying this garbage.
That kind of money can get you a good PC that will last longer.
The gaming industry said going digital only would make games cheaper. It didn't. The gaming industry are saying they need to nicklel and dime gamers because it is more expensive to develop games for. It isn't. The gaming industry said gamers wanting the best graphics is why games are more expensive. It isn't. The gaming industry said they need to cut jobs because they need to cut redundant jobs because they are too costly. It isn't and they are posting record profits.
The video game industry is run by morons who lies like they are Pinocchio and if they could sell their own family to make even 1 cent more, they would.
And let's not forget the idiots in suit who argue 40-70 is too cheap.
Can't remember exactly who said it but given the industry's track record, there might be others who said something similar.
How much of mobile gaming has contributed to current state of gaming?
@@coffeebean_tamer Yes a big way as you see the tactics they use on mobile games come into normal gaming that and fortnite is what is killing games today as everyone ones the fortnite gravy train of money they make so everything is online and battle passes now even in games that don't even need battle pass have them.
@@coffeebean_tamermobile gaming is at the forefront of online gambling first and foremost. Darn gachas.
Yeah. I’ve seen indie developers make back rooms games with surreal graphics but we don’t get any of that 😂
Creative and talented devs replaced by accountants and execs. Real gamers replaced by quick-insta-fame-fake-gurus. People who, back in the day, called us 'losers' cuz we were gamers or loved Anime. Now they use our tech to make sick money, share their vanity and destroy self-esteem of others. I made a deep dive video of X360 as the last great generation, hope I'm wrong.... Great video as always.
You forgot that creative talent got replaced with activists, the higher ups got replaced with paperpushers and people that have never touched a game in their whole life. What is really bad is no one is really innovating, it is always going after trends insted of seting them.
You mean replaced by woke, blue hair, leftist, lunatics.
I remember playing ps2-3 for hrs, even before I got online.
I beat mass effect 2 insanity raw on my (only MS console lol) 360...
A major boost to self esteem to this day.
Outside of nier, bloodborne, some adv mov shooters... I mean I got into my 1st fighter tekken, a childhood button mash lol.
I agree with you alot, ps4 era just felt like gaming becoming... commercial.
I love this medium, but it's definitely moving away from me. I already have a shxtty laptop lol, MCC ain't do bad on low settings. 💯
Also b4 anyone ask, I play halo 4. Enjoy ur disappointment
@@KNGDDDE Hi, thanks for your feedback. I agree; PS4 era introduced intrusive DLC content; always online feature to really enjoy or achive something; day one patch big as an entire game and they tried to push this whole game as a service idea where you don't really own your library anymore.
The idea of not owning games really discourages me from considering spending any money on any new games.
Real. And the whole lawsuit with Disney?? It's as if these big entertainment companies are encouraging people to start pirating content
Just buy physical then? It's worth it even though it's way more expensive. Even more so in the digital age. You can always sell your old phyaical games for a bit of cash. Might even get lucky and end up owning a collector's item. Not so much with digital stuff.
You don’t own any of the games you buy kid
This is why everyone should explore the seven seas, arghh!
@@hello-hb1ll have fun explaining that in court
I don't want ray tracing.
I don't want more fps.
I don't want any deluxe edition.
I don't want early access.
I don't want battle pass or loot boxes.
I don't want to pre-order.
I don't want a sleek design.
I JUST WANT TO PLAY A FUCKING GAME!!!
So a console gamer? I DO want ray tracing more FPS. What kind of person wants horrible FPS? I have played and enjoyed many early access. I do agree with the rest.
@@TT09B5no one really wants rt ray tracing they just want games to look good and that certainly isn't a reasonable bar
😂
@@TT09B5 we don't need fps past 120, hell 60 is perfectly fine but nah we need a billion fps and all muh pretty and fluffy graphics with zero substance
@@TT09B5 People like you are why this console generation has been so awful.
Those "morons" are called shareholders and private equity boards, and they aren't limited to the video game industry.
Now we're cooking!!
Morons dont know what they are doing. These guys know very well what they are doing. They are psycopaths, literal psycopaths, by the clinical definition of it.
Same thing with the movie industry going on.
Public stocks and loans have ruined the world in every aspect.
But would shareholders really want to invest in a product that nobody wants to buy?
I mean the video game companies are eventually going to have to sell SOMETHING otherwise it's just a bubble that is waiting to pop, which will result in the shares plummeting in value.
If people would just hold on to their money and just wait for a game that is genuinely worth 130 dollars, this would destroy their entire business model and either ruin them or force them to actually make a good game.
It's sad. Every new generation feels like the "fun" of videogames takes more of a backseat as they turn games into chores. It's why my gaming history the last few years are filled with the occasional next-gen game surrounded by a flood of older titles.
Same. I almost exclusively play retro or indie titles these days. I've purchased 3 big games since 2015. Witcher 3, Baldurs Gate 3 and Ghost of Tsushima for PC. Witcher 3 was on a massive sale. BG3 is more of an indie game but with a big budget. So Ghost is really the only AAA game on the list I've payed full price for.
I spend more money on original PS2 games than modern videogames each year. I could easily pirate and emulate them. But money is not the issue. I like to own them in my collection. Meanwhile I don't even bother pirate modern AAA games.
On the bright side, it means I can worry less about needing to make a new computer build to run newer titles as majority are boring/slop/crap. I do find myself mostly going back and playing older games I grew up with and some I missed out on, or were translated because they were never released over here on the NES and upwards. NES, SNES, N64, GEN/32X/CD, Saturn, Dreamcast, PS1, PS2, GB/C/A, DS/3DS, GameGear, PSP. I got so many games to choose from, even on original hardware for some since I still have a bunch of older systems and a CRT that still works. Using mostly S-Vid or higher when able, with only a couple on composite.
I find all these older titles vastly just more enjoyable and fun nowadays compared to most new stuff by big companies. Mostly indie stuff has any interest to me for new things, and SOME-times something from a big company might get my attention like Wukong or Stellar Blade.
True. I have a high end gaming PC but it feels kinda wasteful most of the time as I spend most of my time playing indie and retro games. Or retro consoles. Its great for emulation though I guess. And the very rare and once in a while AAA game like Ghost of Tsushima. But the positive is that I don't have to worry about upgrades for a decade if the gaming industry continues like it has for the last decade:P
I only got like 50games in the last 14years since the 360 era all together.....thats sad.
Mean while my library of games i love from the past is probably over 2,000
@@gentlesirpancakebottoms6692bg3 is the singel furthest thing u can get from an indie game
Honestly it has more uncommon with football then indie games
Consider me unpissed.
My old consoles work just fine.
My only problem with my ps3 is that some games are not availible to pkg download nor can I found them in my country. Atleast aquiring new games is easy (would be If i wasnt poor)
take as an example: Nier. I would have to pay more than 300 bucks for a copy. Demon souls? Found one for 500
"Unpissed" is lowkey a powerful word
I may steal this. If it gets any traction, feel free to call me out.
@@TechLicker
HEN it dammit!
It's easy, you will not brick the oldy, unless you try it hard intentionally.
Wish i never sold my old consoles as a kid
Wow you are so undemanding. This is exactly what allows these game companies to be so complacent. Bravo! 🤦🏻♂️
It isn't just the video game industry. It's society in general that lacks leadership and creativity. This is the culmination of generations of cuts made to the arts and civics.
Nah, more like too much leadership, shit leadership.
Be the leader of your life and grow up but don't imitate the unemployed Austrian painter.
😂
@worldhello1234 wow. Just wow.
@worldhello1234 , I'm good, my working days are over, and the only ones with nazi tendencies are people like you.
Dressed as Gandalf reminiscing about the era of the rings
Underrated comment 😂
emulation and backward compatibility need to be a must, not seen as a criminal offense or a backward step!
Funny thing is that the only argument against it is that it cuts away potential sales, but if these companies aren't selling these old games anymore, there is literally no reason not to emulate
@@Thetiredpotato11 me replaying xenogears on emulation for a hundred times while sony prefer to spend their money on concord
me replaying Oblivion and other old Xbox OG/360 games.
I never did buy a single game in my life. Piracy rules supreme.
@@Thetiredpotato11did it cut away from ps2 sales? Nope, was the most succesful console of its generation and it was backwards compatible, so that arguement fails.
Its why im a pc gamer, can play pc games, and take nostalgia trips with emulators, snes, megadrive, ps1 ps2, ps3, wii, wii u. So many games!!!!
Suits ruin everything, the only thing they care about is getting more money with minimal effort. Todd Howard springs to mind as the typical suit.
They trying to do crap like this back in the 2600 days.
Manager types. They're in every industry, poisoning the waters. Both figuratively and literally.
Part of the reason people hate Todd Howard is that he went from an actually decent game developer/director to a perfect suit circa fallout 3/Skyrim’s development.
He used to be a gamer though. But after living in an ivory tower surrounded by yes-men for 20 years, he's gotten... complacent.
Thanks capitalism!
Customers need to get 'comfortable' not owning [ubisoft's] games. Done.
It's why Outlaws failed... Even "woke" I might have bought it from any other company, my Last Ubisoft game was Sparks of hope and they shoved a service I didn't need along with MTX so intrusively in the game I barely got past the tutorial before moving on to another game... I might actually be willing to buy a GotY version of the first game and the sequel barely got me past a tutorial.
Ubisoft should get comfortable not owning any money.
Oh looook. It’s the eight millionth time someone has posted this joke this week. Get it? Because he used their saying against them. It’s funny the eight millionth time you hear it.
@@jimthar17 Are you alright?
You want to talk about it?
@@jimthar17nobody asked For your opinion
A real life fake wizard is never late, nor is he early, he drops bomb ass videos precisely when he means to. Good job keep it up. Cant wait to see this channel blow up.
I think this generation should last longer because we don't even have better hardware yet.
"You will pay a lot and own nothing. Now eat zee bugs."
I say that all the time and no one knows what it means.
@@RealLifeFakeWizard doesn't surprise me, coverage of that particular article got blacklisted by google, and any criticism was largely met with massive amounts of gaslighting
@@RealLifeFakeWizard ofc no one knows.
Like Patrick Star, they live under a rock.
@@deoxysandmew2162 A black rock.
Good old Klaus Schwab, i mean a man that introduces himself looking like a bond villian. And people are still! Clueless
To top it off, most people that wanted a PS5 couldn't even find one for the first two years that it came out!
Yeah, that was crazy...
Few games was available
exactly
Yep, so then I bought a new PC and got over wanting a PS5.
I found one about 4 months after release for the standard price. People who wanted found one.
Whole world is a circus run by clowns, the gaming industry is just following their pattern.
DEI and ESG has infected everything. Western society took on racism as the dominant ideology.
Its not just nostalgia either. When the ps2 and original xbox came out, people who were in their early to mid 20s at the time have a fondness for that era. Meanwhile you have teenagers and kids crapping on this modern gaming era. Trust me, its not just nostalgia. Theres a quantifiable decline in the quality of gaming these days.
Oh yeah glad I started on the Sega Genesis then PS1..prob my favorite era almost with MGS1 and twisted metal. PS2 was amazing as well.
Gaming used to be like sitting down to an entire 5 course meal with all the trimmings and trappings, cooked by chefs who loved the food and wanted everyone to share in what they loved and had created. Now games are fast food, cookie cutter meals that keep you full but there's really nothing nutritional in there, the food's dead on arrival, the chefs don't really care and in a lot of cases seem to openly hate the people they're cooking for and anyone not eating at this new shit-hole is a bigot.
I grew up on the SNES, N64, and PS2. It was the best time. After that, I went to PC. The Switch brought me back to console gaming in 2019, and the Steam Deck brought me back to PC last year (I sold my Switch to get one). I'm sticking with PC from now on. 😂
Nothing feels better then playing old physical titles. I’m running windows XP 32bit and it plays 98% of old games the odd one won’t work because of pixel shaders that my video card doesn’t have but that’s no big deal. ❤
If you ever had the misfortune to work in retail the biggest rule is customers is always right. Yet somehow gamers are the only customers that are lied to, lectured, dismissed, blamed, scapegoated, labeled, oh and we are never right. Its time for us to just stop buying games from companies that don't value our money because at the end of the day that's what they want. Lets cut that off
I've always hated that the game industry, out of any industry, gets away with this crap. When they should be putting their customers first. They would be nothing without their customers yet they treat us like crap & they treat us like idiots. Why does the game industry have to be like this now??
@benmcreynolds8581 people have to agree that they are tired of big corperations shit games that's how the people get thier wins.
@@benmcreynolds8581 because they figured that games can be a powerful propaganda tool like tv.
I will never understand this customer is always right BS.
We don't have that here in the Netherlands. The rules here is: Customer is king. Which is also BS.
The customer is a pain in the ass is what that rule should say.
I'm glad i don't have to deal with customers. The day i have to will probably be my last at that company.
I haven't bought an AAA game since... Does Monster Hunter World count? Anyway, at least 5 years.
The best thing about this console generation is it finally got me to convert to PC.
Well done, be sure to check out the System Shock remake. It's great value
@@sean7221 It's one of the first things I bought when I finished my build. System Shock Remake and Black Mesa were fantastic ways to start my PC library.
It really makes no difference. You have no physical media- you don't own it.
@@peterc3262 That's why you can pirate games on PC if corporations decide to screw you over.
@@peterc3262You own the games you buy on GOG and you own Steam games with no DRM.
If you need internet to download an obligatory patch when you put the disc inside the console, you dont own that disc.
You're right. 100% right. I miss the PS3/Xbox 360/Wii era of gaming. But I know that it's already too late. The only sliver of hope for gaming would be to tank AAA gaming as a whole or as a concept and give money to indie developers.
AAA gaming isn't the real issue. The real issue is this strange hyperfocus on the specific AAA genre of games.
gpu whoring@@Cabolt44
DEI would come for indies. They have come for small businesses and small charities already.
not only is it the shareholders but the players who support this slop, mainly CoD comes to mind, it baffles me that so many people are willing to spend so much on in-game purchases
This is exactly why I love Space Marine II. It’s such an awesome throwback to the good old days.
Its even more embarrassing for Sony when you realize you could use that 700$ to buy a Steam Deck OLED with 1TB of SSD storage and still have 50$ left over lol.
You don’t even need the SSD. A 1tb microSD for under $80 works perfectly on steam deck
And you don’t need a tv
And you can play more games
In order to be embarrassed, They have to have self-awareness first, which they don't seem to have.
@@stevensasy12345 ssd is faster andmore reliable than micro sd
"i miss the xbox 360 era so bad"
me too man, me too.
I miss the era of game cartridges. Keep your filthy internet out of my consoles !
Except for the Red Ring of Death.
I don't, I'm still playing 360 games.
Set mine up and played it this week
@@soldfuture_ that one guy whose 360 RR'd after 18 years is probably crying right now. 😭
This is a really well put together video.
Good humour and solid points. Subscribed.
The thought of Nintendo turning into a dark souls boss at the idea of emulation is so true
I say indie companies need to begin developing physical sales for old consoles now. I would love a new title for my GameCube. NahwhatImean?
@@CleverGirlAAH interesting idea
@@CleverGirlAAH This would keep old consoles from being forgotten in the long run.
@@CleverGirlAAH There are Homebrew devs that make games for older consoles.
This is what happens when you get your target audience from Twitter...
And your employees.
Tumblr.
It's really not.
This is what happens when gaming starts making mega bucks and the boards and banks and other businesses take notice, get involved and bring business mentality to it.
It's not politics, it's not Twitter, the "wokies" aren't out to get you.
It's business and it's been squeezed too hard and we're all feeling it.
@@combatwombat2134it's a mix of everything. Making money, and pushing the agenda. Politics is at play everywhere. Dont be naive.
@@YISTECH I reiterate the first line of my comment. Even the prime example I seem to get regarding companies that failed because of "woke" (Volition) didn't crash out because of that; but people prefer feelings over facts, so...
I'mma be real, the moment you said "And remember: Cancel Disney+" I double checked and went: "How the f@#$ am I not subscribed to this man already!?"
So yeah, that earned you a subscribe.
Great video! It is crazy how far gaming has progressed and regressed at the same time.😢
What a golden era for the Steam Backlog though, am I right?? lol Been waiting for gamers to wake up for a while now
PlayStation had the opportunity to convince PlayStation 4 & PS4 Pro players to move on to the PlayStation 5 Pro, but instead the total opposite happened now PlayStation is basically saying keep playing on your Playstation 4s & PS4 Pros while we charged $700 for PS5 PRO, plus a additional cost of $80 for a disk drive plus an additional $30 for a vertical stand basically scalping our own customers of giving us $810. No....F*** u Sony, console gaming used to be the cheapest route to have access to gaming but instead you basically did a Apple move and Gone full PC.
Yes all of us here did expect it to remain $500 or $575 for the PlayStation 5 Pro but instead PlayStation or arrogant Sony got greedy didn't learn anything from the PS3 era.
Not to mention the pro costing significantly more in Canada and the uk... god knows how much it'll cost in kangaroo land... I hope this shit sells like concord, I hope this pro console becomes the next ET game disaster, I hope making this shit costs sony so much money that it forces them to rely on their dev studios to go back to passion driven games instead of super safe open world/liscened marvel games. Also for even more laughs I hope they never make back their investment they made on bungie
@@rinnnnnnnnnnrinRinOnishiExactly $1199.95 Dollarydoos in Kanga Land.
They also had the opportunity to get us ps4 hangovers to upgrade to ps5 by dropping the price of base model. In 2016 when they released the ps4 pro they dropped the price of ps4 slim to $300 with uncharted 4 bundled in, and put ps4 pro at the ps4 launch price. That’s when I upgraded from ps3 to ps4. However now it’s been 4 years and the base ps5 is still $500 with only a handful of games that aren’t cross gen while the price of living has skyrocketed and the generational leaps are diminishing returns for long term gamers who have seen things like the jump to 3d or jump to hd.
This is exactly me lmao I game on my ps4 pro and waited to head over to the ps5 pro, or at the least a much cheaper base ps5. This only makes me want to invest in a gaming pc and say to hell with consoles. Between games being cheaper usually and being able to play old games, consoles are soon to die out if they don’t either drop prices to compete or really reinvent the wheel with gaming somehow.
@@HereComesTheSmartAlecPC also allows you to use mods, which can enhance games to be better and have more content than on console.
If anyone here decides to build a PC, I'd recommend using PCPartsPicker, great way to make sure everything is compatible and find the best prices on parts.
Sony doesn’t actually want to sell the PS5 Pro. Releasing it is just a power play to show their dominance over Xbox this generation. If people actually buy it, Sony knows they can raise the price of the PS6 in a couple years.
Yeah, they saw that Xbox said they’d be skipping this generation and so Sony decided to flex their huge muscles in our face. I will always bet on the more humble, secure brand. It shows confidence in their plan.
What dominance? There’s no games.
@@Saltasaursales
@@timtheenchanter7660meanwhile pcmr flexing their dominance by having exclusives from both Xbox and Playstation on steam
@@percy3711 Said they'd be skipping this gen? As if they have any say in the matte,r they have no games. They've been out of the running for 2 gens now, they ain't coming back
PS4 Pro sold 14.5 million units over its lifetime which was around 12% of total PS4s sold. The Pro version even at a lower price with a disc drive was a niche market.
Gonna be worse for PS5
@@RazielTheUnborn agreed I dont think they will hit the same percentage this gen.
Considering when the PS4 Pro released... it made sense. And again, Sony are making the same (but worse!) mistake with PS5 Pro.
The price of pc's is vastly overstated. If you want a top end rig that will give you the best performance you'll find anywhere It will cost a lot. But you can get a PC for about the same price as the PS5 Pro that can match it for performance, and you won't have to pay 80 bucks a year to play your own games online. You don't have to pay exorbitant amounts of money to own a PC, 700 dollars can get you plenty of power.
Nice video, great rant! Have felt this way in general about gaming since the near end of the ps3 era. Liked and subscribed.
@@simspawn welcome aboard!
Real issue here: Sony's fanbase. They're too comfortable, predominantly thanks to the schtick of game exclusivity. Sony delivers you cookie cutter, safe, movie games. Along with borrowing the Ubisoft formula; releasing the same spiderman game three times with minimal innovation between instalments. But the fans LAP that shit up. Henceforth, Sony thinks they have the Apple touch: The ability, and audacity to make egregious pricing decisions with ultimately inconsequential backlash, due to the loyalty of the userbase. In conjunction with a borderline monopoly on the industry. They ain't there, but they clearly want to be. I'm just glad we aren't letting it slide.
@@A_Person5280"Don't think about it, just consume product."
i'm just malding that I can't get bloodborne on pc because of the exclusivity nonsense
@@Thetiredpotato11 I hear ya. I’ve been mad about Mario Kart 8 not being on PC
While Sony is indeed getting arrogant, I'm sick of people calling the games "movies." Where is the "movie" in Returnal? Why not just skip the cutscenes in games if you don't like them? If you feel you aren't being challenged enough, why not change the difficulty level?
While Sony is indeed getting arrogant, I'm sick of people calling the games "movies." Where is the "movie" in Returnal? Why not just skip the cutscenes in games if you don't like them? If you feel you aren't being challenged enough, why not change the difficulty level?
To my understanding, the only game that is intentionally a "movie" is Until Dawn, and possibly Detroit as well. If the game doesn't play like Heavy Rain, then it's not a "movie." I had a hard time passing certain endgame challenges in Uncharted 4, Horizon 1 (2 only took me a couple tries to beat the last boss), God of War 2018 and 2022. I don't consider those moments "movies."
There's another massive advantage to getting a PC, we'll always have indie games. I know a good amount of them get ported to consoles, but if you want to play the majority of these games that were made with GENUINE PASSION, you'll find them on PC or a Steam Deck. Also all the PlayStation and Xbox games are coming to PC anyway, so I have literally 0 reason to buy either.
Downside is that it's hard to own anything on a PC. It has pretty much entirely lost physical media. Every disk just links straight to steam where you own nothing. If i own the disk on an Xbox I can play it without the internet. I own it. Good luck installing a PC disk while offline.
@@peterc3262You have more ownership over a digital pirated PC game than over a disc copy of a Xbox game.
@riverblack123 Sorta. Emulation exists for those games too, so that's the wrong argument.
@@peterc3262 there are no-DRM shops like GOG, you can download offline installer and own the game.
@@Cabolt44 discs can deteriorate with time
You're absolutely on the money about Pokemon Scarlet/Violet. I got the game as a gift and I still wanted my money back. The frame rate and glitches were just unacceptable, especially considering the previous game, Sword/Shield played beautifully.
Some slowdown, yes, but nowhere near as bad as its sequels. The fact that Game Freak and the Pokemon Company did nothing to address the frame rate and glitch issues also raised my ire. It's gonna be a while before I buy anything new from them again.
I tried streaming it the morning it came out and had to stop because the game is such an awful pile of unviewable crap.
They did try and fix it... But the game was still too un-optimized... Z-A is there last shot with me, if it comes out late 2025, I'll pick it up, early with another in the same year, never picking up another Pokemon game again. This is the best case scenario, if they delay the game to 2026, then I'll preorder it because these guys learned there lesson!!
And yes I would pay 70 dollars to play Red, Blue, Yellow, Silver, Gold and Emerald on my Switch, and I would like to have Virtual Console come back too!!
This is what happens when you fail to train your coders. I cannot remember the mans name, but he was pretty much THE GUY that optimized the previous games. He died and took that knowledge with him.
@seaweeb2258 Iwata, also the former CEO of Nintendo. Dude's a coding legend for being able to cram Kanto into Gen 2, among other efforts.
Oh my god yesss Pokemon Scarlet/Violet. Ugh. I'm praying Z-A has better quality, I don't know why Gamefreak won't put in the effort. Surely they can afford it with how impossibly well Pokemon games sell.
4:40 somebody forgot that every game in the 2000s dropped with a separate PS3/360, PS2, DS, and Wii version, almost always being completely different platform to platform.
Spot on brother great video, very well said!!
To me a Steam Deck is a better use of $700
Anyone who spends 700 on a steam deck is a total moron.. Just buy the refurbished base model for half the price
I too think that... TOO BAD I CAN'T EVEN BUY ONE BECAUSE IT DOESN'T SELL HERE. i literally go to the dang website to see the prices and cannot buy it. Amazing.
@@capperbunsGet yourself an ROG Ally Z1 Extreme or Lenovo Legion Go
@@capperbuns Damn! Sorry to hear that.
Even though the steam deck at its cheapest is a fraction of that
The force unleashed was by far one of my favorite Star Wars game of that era
I miss this series so much. I recently setup my old Xbox 360 so I could play this game. I was obsessed with messing around with the physics when it was released
which version? I played the wii version but the xbox version looked so much better
I can build a very respectable pc for $700, and if I bought used parts I could get a bomb ass pc put together.
hell yeah bro!
Respectable is more like $1300 to $1500 if you buy it built, which most of the console market would much more likely do than build their own rig.
@@johno1544 Thats a fair point that most folks cant or wont build their own but im talking about very specifically self built. Going with used parts I cant make a banger 1080p build with ample storage for $700. I mean look at things like LTT scrapyard wars, they do the same thing there and go all used and build some decent rigs. Its possible, you just gotta be patient and willing to put the time in.
@@scotthallgv If you can build your own that's certainly the way to go. Even if you spent say $1000 to $1300 to buy a prebuilt one, Once your start factoring in the bonuses PC has like not having to pay for online gaming, ease of future upgrades, mods it really starts closing the gap between a $700 PS5 pro
A respectable pc yes but not ps5 pro performance still.
Honestly this doesn’t piss me off this is a very good video of “modern gaming”
This is why I enjoy being a Indie game enjoyer. There are still Devs out there with a passion for the craft of video gaming and there are plenty of indie games out there that are so much fun
5:24 the disclaimer at the bottom, lmao. I make the prediction that you get to buy all of those games AGAIN as PS5 pro enhanced versions.
Couldn’t agree more. I always say it, that era was the peak of gaming and it will never be as good again. Now all we have are greedy, graphic obsessed games. What’s even worse is that i see people defending this who actually claim they will buy regardless. I am retiring from modern gaming. We have thousands of games up until 2020 that we can enjoy after all.
The stuff from 20 years ago was just better.
Big corporations and left wing activists ruin everything.
I recall a not so pleasant term for gamers who were obsessed with graphics. Let them have this era. They wanted this.
@@falconeshield yeah let them enjoy their soulless realistic games. I’m not even sad to retire from modern gaming because I know it’s never getting better again.
@@iljun3089 The PS2 era was the best, with the 360 era a close second.
There’s stuff from 2004 to 2012 that is simply much better.
I refuse to play modern games.
@KratostheThird same. I refuse to play games beyond 2020. But to me ps3/360 era is the best because the graphics are in between realistic and artistic. E.g. oblivion, skyrim, watchdogs, arkham, amazing spiderman, dark souls, dragon age, etc. We could have stayed there. No need for ultra realistic games now.
Gaming has fallen. Billions must pirate.
And then no more games get made at all. Brilliant plan.
@@Highlander77 people who want to make games will make games.
@@Highlander77 I bought persona 4 golden for 11 bucks yesterday. I pirate 10's of terabytes each month, and persona 4 is the only persona game that had its DRM removed. Pirates buy good games when the prices become reasonable or they feel like it's genuinely worth it.
@@kobold7466 not if they can't get paid for it, lol.
@@Aisen_ that's cool. You're still not supporting the devs of the games that you're playing.
You couldn't be more spot on with your analysis. I'm actually blown away how well your points came across and how relatable you are in general. Don't stop doing what you're doing!
Idk what channel I just stumbled across, but I'm in. That was great. Well done/said.
My good old games I still play: Left4 Dead, Orange Box, F.E.A.R 1 & 2, Condemned 1 & 2, Dead Space, 1&2, Mass Effect, Black, etc. Not ever getting rid of these.
Hell yeah, my lists the same except it has Fallout 1-4, MGS3, Halo 1-3, Deus Ex 1, Half-Life 2, Metro, and Saints Row 2.
May our classics remain great until the end of time.
F.E.A.R. mentioned. Fellow Point Man enjoyer
My list:
Mass effect
Dishonored
Bio shock
Elder scrolls four
The Witcher 2
Fallout new Vegas
He should have worn a different costume when he was playing a Nintendo executive. At the very least he should have been wearing a business suit with the rest of his fake wizard getup.
They're not morons. But they do think we are.
Oh they’re morons alright. They just also prey on the morons among us who will still buy their crap. Because let’s face it, people will still do which contributes to the fall of gaming.
Maybe not "morons", but "mind-bogglingly out of touch" accomplishes the same things.
@@Darkkfated out of touch describes it perfectly I would say
@@Darkkfated Yes!!!! Out of touch!! It's exactly that.
A moron's dollar is worth the same as the smart person's dollar. And much easier to get.
glad i found this channel u got a new sub fr
I just want to say that I don't care about the video topic in general, but the 'real life fake wizard' persona was so hilarious from the thumbnail it made me click and watch anyway. Keep it up.
Devs started to get lazy when they realised they could release unfinished games at full price and patch them as they go.
Or they just expect that fully detailed class based shooters can be made in 2 weeks and not 2 years.
Thems the publishers you're talking about, not the devs (except 1st party titles).
That was only possible via pre orders
The ps5 pro has been in development for at least a year and a half. There were multiple points where Sony could have stopped it, but out of the inability to read the market and pure greed chose to release it.
I don’t even own a PlayStation five and I haven’t had any reason to. I still am happy with my PlayStation 4 in my previous consuls and I am now within the last couple months finally got my first proper computer and doing videos on TH-cam.
This video alone has bought you a new subscriber, Gaming Gandalf
Amazing content, new subscriber!🎉
We pulled a Warhammer. We went from the Golden Age to the Darkgrim timeline
As a console player who has never owned a pc, I say with confidence that they are truly the master race. They eatin’ so much better than us.
Save up, look for deals on parts, make the switch. All are welcome.
Join us! Jooooooin UUUUUUUSSSSS!
I think PC gamers who have dealt with all the broken and buggy ports of the last however many years might disagree with you.
@Highlander77 the funny thing is you could be right but, I genuinely don't know what you're talking about. If you like slop, that's fine, I used to eat it up too when I was younger. I've been gaming on the pc for about 7 years now and have totally forgotten about any series that was console exclusive. I watched all of my favorite game series on the console turn to trash. It's what drove me to the pc in the first place.
With a pc you also have easy acces to the 7 seas
Love these videos bro. Very high quality. You deserve way more subs and I hope you get them.
i like your style man, you got my sub
Honestly back than PS3/Wii/Xbox 360 era i wanna say was a golden age for gaming BUT. . .
During the transition to PS4 and Xbox One you could feel the drop in quality and the loss of creativity along with the inability to innovate.
Now with the mediocrity of PS4 and Xbone far behind us we enter the brain dead mess of PS5. . .I'll tell you this I was a gamer as a child loyal to the Sony brand. . .I vowed id never buy a PS5.
Sony had variety back in the day PS1 to PS3 you saw the different genre. Now Playstation games are a genre because it's the same generic slop over and over again.
I haven’t bothered honestly. I have old PC games and emulators for stuff dating back to the 90’s and 2000’s.
That era was a much better time for gaming. Sad to see what’s happened to it.
Fuelled by the lack of competition in the portable market (PS Vita went bust and Nintendo ruled the roost). This also had huge negative impacts for Sony and MSFT, who steered away from AA titles and "fun" games, to massive big budget experiences. And then pushing that for every game. And if a game can't be made into that, it gets thrown into lock and chain.
@@Cabolt44 It sucks. The PS2 and early PS3 era was full of good AA titles.
Me and all my friends were absolutely wondering the same thing when we saw $700 with no disc drice no stand who in the world does this product serve?
I remember how excited I was for the "future of gaming" when I was playing Halo 3 on my Xbox 360.
If only I knew that was as good as it was ever going to get, or that eventually "AAA" would become an insulting description of a game meaning "Soulless, sterile, boring, overpriced, unfinished liveservice trash"
No you’re just mad that you can’t afford a current gen console cope
@@slapshotjack9806 Why would I waste any amount of money or time on a mediocre console that is just going to collect dust and get in the way?
My PC is already way more powerful and useful than any console.
Besides, it's not like consoles have any exclusives that aren't complete garbage.
Maybe you have buyer's remorse, and this is how YOU are coping with it. Because your parents won't give you enough to buy a gaming PC. Absolutely delusional console fanboys
@@slapshotjack9806 I think maybe you're mad because you have buyer's remorse from wasting your allowance money on garbage, and now your parents won't give you enough money to afford a PC. So this is how you cope with it.
Why would I buy a console if it's just going to collect dust and get in the way?
There's not one console exclusive game that is even remotely good or interesting, and my PC is already way more powerful than any console. Even if it was 50 dollars, I wouldn't buy it. It's not even remotely worth it.
@@party4lifedude it’s funny because you just told me how you live
@@party4lifedude you’re the one with buyers remorse and living with his parents
I think its great. There has never been a better time to make good indie games and beat major companies.
Ok. First video I ever watched here. You got yourself a sub.
@@RangerMcFriendly Welcome to the party!
@@RealLifeFakeWizardI commented and subbed 4 minutes in. I am seriously laughing my rear off.
My favorite game to come out of the PS3 era was definitely the LittleBigPlanet series. I didn't give it a shot at first but when I did, I absolutely fell in love with it. I stuck mostly with the main entries with my only spin off being the PSP title. I would've gotten the Vita edition, if I had a PS Vita. It's such a shame the servers for LBP3 were unceremoniously discontinued. It felt like Sony personally stabbed me and many others through the heart. That comment about them not having many IPs when they just unceremoniously killed off one of their best truly pisses me off to no end. Whatever flops and hardships come their way, deserved.
Cracking game
Exactly. While Sony continuously want to push their Last of Us/God of War style games, the smaller franchises that actually made them the company they are today, are languishing in chains.
I still don't see why we're buying consoles over PCs in 2024
I'm a pc guy but I will defend them on one point... They make for very easy to set up single task machines... Want to just play a game or watch a movie, plug it into your tv and the wall, maybe grab an update, and you're off to the races...
I'm right there with you. The "next-gen gaming" has been absolute trash. I phuckin hate gaming today. I laughed my A$$ off when I heard how much the PS5 pro cost and it didn't have a disk drive. Lol what a p0s.
Loving your channel bro! Funny, entertaining and informative!
You’re preaching, also subbed off the fact I’m hearing kingdom hearts ost in the background lol
In the 7th gen of gaming, there were tones of new games being released. But they were shorter games, and people complained about them all being too linear. People kept playing new games all the time.
Today, we are knee deep into the live service games. People find 2 or 3 games they like, and just play them forever, not doing anything else.
GTA4, gears of war 2, Assassins creed 2, red dead redemption, prototype, burnout paradise, Arkham series , resident evil 5, dead space 2 & max Payne 3 were top tier games released in short span of time
Yeah game companies want the grial of absolute control on the players libraries, no mods, "no playing older games or previous release" just hold people hostage to whatever they want to put on their o line subscriptions, and when they get a new game, the ability to remove old games so you are forced to play the new one, or the new, pointless "remake" of a game that might even be still in the same system, and getting a remake just for money. Or "justify" a pro device
I mean, I know this is oldish but didn't rockstar try to delist the older GTA games when they released that collection, that turned to be not great and lazy, like the upscaled graphics where done poorly to a point a donut place that had a donut statue ended up with an octagon or something, and text removed or replaced by nonsense due to the ai text scanning used failed to read it?. And people were somewhat annoyed. Yet that meant, if you didn't own the games before, now your only option was the collection. Despite the fact prior to release they were readily available online to purchas. Imagine a world where the next FIFA game comes out, and all precious versions are forcibly shut down, or delisted/removed, perhaps with some free "fake currency" bonus to previous owners for whatever micro transactions the game might have. Certainly would make it "easier" on the companies, when they don't even have to compete with their older versions, and thus make the minimum effort to "update" since they know you have no other option.
Thank you for saying all this. I was born in the world of always having something new and it is AGONIZING having it all go away
PS5 Pro. Aka the "please buy this, we need to make up for Concord's flop."
Halo & Mass Effect. I started playing games with Halo. As we got two xbox consoles for the rec room on base. I remember being offered cigs for my spot on games night.
Offered cigarettes?? You ain’t my brother are you?
@@BobLazier-zk8gi Restricted to base was not much you could spend money on(the naffi had a awful selection). So was cigs/coffee(saved from mre's) etc.
One of the reason why the cost of living is so high. Is cause of corporations wanting us to vote against our interest. So let the corps deal with it now.
I have all three of them, Nintendo SWITCH, PlayStation 5 and XBOX Series X and let me tell you, you are a Legend and I agree with you.
Liked and subscribed.
I've got the Switch Lite, and it's pretty good. Granted it's the Lite version, but I've had it for about 3 years now and it's going along nicely. I'm content enough with my purchase. I'm gonna save up for the second Switch, though. The last thing I want is for me to buy a proper Nintendo SWITCH just for the new generation to be announced a week later lol
And on this day. I found my new favorite info channel. Please oh fake space wizard. Teach me of the fault in our stars…I mean… the gaming I industry.
Your Nintendo bit at the end was awesome. And earned you a Sub. Great content buddy
Any Playstation gamers remember the resistance series? I absolutely loved these games. Was unique and kind of Playstation answer to gears of war!
Sony have tons of those franchises from the PSP/PS Vita era, but they refuse to develop any new titles for them. Or even just release some remasters for them on current gen. Like... there's a ton of PSP/Vita exclusives that aren't available for current gen.
@Cabolt44 yeah it's pretty sad that games like concord will get a green light but stuff like resistance is shelved and never seen again 😕
This is why I’m sticking with my PS4. 😎
I still have my PS3 and I'm stocking up on games to play on there.
I’m sorry but the PS5 will actually do me good for the next decade it’s stupid to stick with an old console that’s gonna be out of date soon.
I just bought a PS3 so could play all the games I missed while I was playing the 360 hell I even being playing some 360 games I missed
I managed to get an old PS3 recently that was about to be thrown out. Opened it up, cleaned it out and stuck a skin on it. Then I stuck a 500GB SSD and completely modded it with Custom Firmware. I have access to every digital game released on the system from all regions. I’m pretty much set for years to come. Absolutely no need for a PS5 or XSX at this point. I would definitely recommend doing the same.
@@GenkiStarLeaf Which PS3 model?
@@KratostheThird I have a Slim model. Some are completely compatible with CFW while other Slim models are HEN only.
@@GenkiStarLeaf I have a Super Slim model I bought in 2012, and it still works fine.
I played GTA IV back in the day on the 360 in 2008 when it came out, never finished the story. I have a physical copy of the game on the PS3 and I plan to play it this weekend.
@@KratostheThird You can install HEN on the Super Slim if I’m not mistaken. Still a great option to go for, if you’re thinking of modding it. Get an SSD for it too to get the best performance out of it.
Great video, although one complaint is that you mention that in the 360/ps3 generation nobody was supporting older consoles, but the ps2 was getting new games even into the ps4 generation.
It's just such a good time for indie devs who are putting out small titles that are in every way more enjoyable than ANY modern Triple A release
My favourite of the era by far was Lost Odyssey to this date still the single greatest JRPG I've ever played.
So much truth spoken in thirteen minutes.
Wizard, as someone who is constantly angered by people failing to use the past participle correctly… I’m super happy to see you say “is run” 😂
"the video game industry is... ran..." oh no, that doesn't sound or feel right at all.
@@RealLifeFakeWizardBelieve it or not, I broke up with a girlfriend because she refused to start saying “haven’t eaten” instead of “haven’t ate.”
@RealLifeFakeWizard I cast 8 months pregnant on Sony then I rage and activate my bonus action to shit on Playstation
@@JoeNasr123 WHO SAYS "HAVEN'T ATE?!" oh, it's like nails on a chalkboard.
@@RealLifeFakeWizard I live in North Carolina, you get used to people having terrible grammar. I just wouldn’t date any of them! 😅
Just here to drive up the engagement. Just found your channel and love the vids dude! Also +50 aura for the fire emblem background music
You hit a lot of great points in this video! Nice work. :)
For decades, consumers had to pay extra just because it's SONY.
From audio transistor radios, reel to reel audio, Trinatron TVs, Walkmans, Discmans, and Playstations Sony always charged as much as the market could bear. The console debacle is just the latest. This generation doesn't have a killer game and introducing a Pro mid gen is only good until the Playstation 6 in early 2027 or 2028.
It comes down to the game developers to code the games for fidelity and not make them ugly.
Likely, what would happen is the Playstation 5 quailty will be worse to make the Pro look better.
I guess you forgot when Sega was in the market and tried to push the Saturn out for 199.99 day of announcement, then the Sony representative walked up and said "99.99"