What a Sorry State of Gaming from all sides

And yet here I am as a grown ass man drowning in game releases. I have zero time to play everything new, let alone my backlog. I've played banger after banger this gen (agree with much of the list posted above). Handheld gaming is at its absolute peak right now. Retro gaming is better than ever. I'm living the 4K60 dream. Everything I don't buy day one is either on sale within a few weeks or even on PS+ within a couple of months.

Gaming life is good. I get the feeling most of the whine is just people aging out of the hobby or is coming from people who spend so much time circlejerking about gaming on forums (*and more than they spend actually gaming) that they think the sky is falling. Spend 5 minutes scrolling and reading every pessimistic take on some shithole like 4chan and you realize that most gamers are just cretins who will never be pleased.

The internet is a cesspool of negativity and the less time you spend on it the better your mental state and your relationship with the hobby will be.
 
Rockstar: I made a topic a few months about why we have not seen any news or new Trailers on GTA 6 and of course all the shills quoted rockstar, "But they confirmed it was 2025!" Normally I understand a delay but not when your last game was 13 fucking years ago.

Nintendo: They are creating a WiiU situation here. Of course the Nintendo Dorks will have it sell out for the first year of launch, after that is the issue. The Crazy prices, the confusing upgrade packages, and just weird marketing is going to confuse the Causal gamer. Like it or not, the casual gamer is where the big bucks are. Switch 2 will be a success but no where near the original. Corporate Greed hit Nintendo hard.

Xbox: Don't even get me started. There are few exclusive worth a Damn anymore on the Xbox console. Microsoft purchased a ton of companies but I wonder where the fuck the games are? On top of that, they have the nerve to jack up the prices on their low selling Xbox Series console. Just fucking stupid.

Sony: Man they fell out this generation. So many great Sony first party exclusive games on PSx, PS2, PS3, PS4, and the PS5 is just crickets. There have been very few first party games for the PS5 and do not see much on the horizon. They spent Billions on bullshit GAAS games and have nothing to show for it. Compared to previous generations, the PS5 library is pathetic.

PC: The biggest player in the PC space Nvidia just released their most shitty product ever. The overpriced 50xx series is a piece of shit and not worth the value. It's barely an upgrade from the 40xx series and now you can openly find 50xx series cards on Shelves(corrected). They even lied about the prices when shown. The prices they displayed on their reveal you cannot even find at big named retailers. The performance increases over the 40xx series are minimal.

Thank god for game emulation and older games. New games keep asking for more money because of "production cost" but the product is getting worse. They want I and others to pay more money for a worse product.

Pathetic!
I don't think the state of gaming is bad, its just different from what it use to be.

The main difference is the slow down of AAA games, I think that has been replaced with these GaaS games but it makes sense because that is what majority of people want now and this is a fact from just looking at the money games like Fortnite makes.

GTA 6 has been pushed back for years because Rockstar has a gold mine in GTA online. Due to the cost of game development companies like Sony and Nintendo who focused on single player games without microtransactions now need to increase prices to maintain, its all a domino effect of the shift from people spending more time with GaaS games.

I am going to take a guess that your older because your on this gaming forum but the truth is this hobby might no longer be the right fit for you because its not the same industry is use to be and its never going back.

Honestly I don't even have time to play all the games being released so my experience has been mainly positive because I am not "dying to play the next best thing" because I have a backlog of great games right now to get through.

Maybe get a good gaming PC and start playing your old favorites or games you missed out on for now until something new that looks good sparks your interest. But if your looking for the industry to "get back to what it use to be" your constantly going to be disappointed.
 
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Some people just really enjoy being mad, upset, frustrated, annoyed, etc. I guess.

Hating on games you've never played is free.

I will caveat all this by saying that the longer games get, the less I want to jump into a new game that is going to be a massive commitment.

I bought Expedition 33, but I haven't started it yet. I'll wait a few weeks/months until the game gets some patches and I'll probably play Returnal in the meantime, since I've been waiting for a PS5 Pro patch to play that. My backlog is in constant motion, but I also haven't finished Persona 3 Reload. I'm at the end of the game but don't know if I'll just beat the game or 100 percent it and the difference has left me paralyzed to even play it.
 
Yeah it's pretty shit all around in many regards, however i personally think 2025 is one of the best years in terms of games, ever. On PC nobodys forcing you to pay for PC2 when some company decides it's time for a generational change. You can sit it out on your old hardware for as long as you want, you decide. Every console at some point receives no support from the platform holder anymore. You can still play just fine with a 30s or 20s series Nvidia card today, it can be as expensive of a hobby as you want it to be. With pretty much all of my Steam library and beyond safely in the hands of full time pirates out there, i can look at this situation with peace of mind. If shit hits the fan (which it won't), i can get all of my shit on the seven seas and even play offline for the rest of my days.
 
Rockstar: I made a topic a few months about why we have not seen any news or new Trailers on GTA 6 and of course all the shills quoted rockstar, "But they confirmed it was 2025!" Normally I understand a delay but not when your last game was 13 fucking years ago.

Nintendo: They are creating a WiiU situation here. Of course the Nintendo Dorks will have it sell out for the first year of launch, after that is the issue. The Crazy prices, the confusing upgrade packages, and just weird marketing is going to confuse the Causal gamer. Like it or not, the casual gamer is where the big bucks are. Switch 2 will be a success but no where near the original. Corporate Greed hit Nintendo hard.

Xbox: Don't even get me started. There are few exclusive worth a Damn anymore on the Xbox console. Microsoft purchased a ton of companies but I wonder where the fuck the games are? On top of that, they have the nerve to jack up the prices on their low selling Xbox Series console. Just fucking stupid.

Sony: Man they fell out this generation. So many great Sony first party exclusive games on PSx, PS2, PS3, PS4, and the PS5 is just crickets. There have been very few first party games for the PS5 and do not see much on the horizon. They spent Billions on bullshit GAAS games and have nothing to show for it. Compared to previous generations, the PS5 library is pathetic.

PC: The biggest player in the PC space Nvidia just released their most shitty product ever. The overpriced 50xx series is a piece of shit and not worth the value. It's barely an upgrade from the 40xx series and now you can openly find 50xx series cards on Shelves(corrected). They even lied about the prices when shown. The prices they displayed on their reveal you cannot even find at big named retailers. The performance increases over the 40xx series are minimal.

Thank god for game emulation and older games. New games keep asking for more money because of "production cost" but the product is getting worse. They want I and others to pay more money for a worse product.

Pathetic!
Yeah... all of this. Right with ya, OP. Good thing my backlog is massive, my Game Pass sub is 3 years, and my SuperStation one (FPGA device) comes in this year. I should be able to enjoy gaming for a long time while watching the industry go up in flames.
 
Yep, gaming is in a pretty bad place when it comes to AAA and high end hardware. If you're still rocking older hardware then there are plenty of great AA and indies to play. There are also older titles that I'm going back to since they play and run better.
 
Never happening. The medium is too big/worldwide to fail.

I'd roughly ballpark 15% crash versus 85% non-crash probabilities by weighing factors:

Destabilizing
- Industry layoffs: 25,000+ video game industry jobs lost since 2022
- Current "reset phase" with widespread corporate restructuring
- Declining console segment (-3.9%)
- Rising development costs for AAA games (hundred million dollar budget gambles failing frequently lately)
- Market saturation in live service games
- Studio closures worldwide

Stabilizing
- Overall market still growing at 4.6% (though close to inflation)
- Mobile gaming segment growing at 2.8%
- Strong upcoming title release slate
- New Nintendo era with Switch 2
- Growing global player base of ~3.27 billion

The video game industry has experienced over 25,000 layoffs between 2022-2025, with a record-breaking 8,619 jobs lost in Q1 2024 alone, indicating significant instability in what was once considered a recession-resistant field. AAA game development costs have ballooned to unsustainable levels between $200-300 million per title (with Call of Duty exceeding $300 million and GTA 6 over $250 million), creating financial risk similar to other entertainment bubbles. The industry is experiencing negative growth in console gaming (-3.9%) alongside studio closures across both major publishers and indie developers, suggesting the early stages of a potential market correction similar to previous industry downturns.

That said, the video game industry has experienced crashes before (not just 1983) these crashes typically require a combination of three key factors: disruptive technologies, limited product differentiation, and decreased entry barriers. While we're seeing some warning signs lately, it's true we're not seeing the "perfect storm" of all three factors that caused previous crashes. The current situation more closely resembles a correction or "reset phase". The most pessimistic industry projections suggest a potential 10% decline, not an outright crash. But never say "never" when it comes to economics.
 
A lot of complaining while im having the best time ever, so many great games, def more expensive but if i dont find it worth it i dont buy it. Im chilling.
 
I've been eating good with Avowed and the Oblivion remake.

If I were to make this thread I'd complain about games forcing me to do the most boring shit ever to tell their mid-to-bad stories.
 
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I'm good. Pro console and controller, handheld and VR + a sub for well under $2k. Best bang for your buck ecosystem and every major release is available at some point and I still have the option to buy physical
 
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Despite me buying plenty of games and having fun this gen so far, this gen overall is just fucking ass. And it's all down to greed.
 
If you've been on here anytime in the last 10 years you'd think the culture war nonsense was the biggest issue in gaming. Glad some of you are finally getting woke.
 
Nintendo: They are creating a WiiU situation here. Of course the Nintendo Dorks will have it sell out for the first year of launch, after that is the issue. The Crazy prices, the confusing upgrade packages, and just weird marketing is going to confuse the Causal gamer. Like it or not, the casual gamer is where the big bucks are. Switch 2 will be a success but no where near the original. Corporate Greed hit Nintendo hard.

Thank god for game emulation and older games. New games keep asking for more money because of "production cost" but the product is getting worse. They want I and others to pay more money for a worse product.

Pathetic!
Nothing you said is wrong, however, Nintendo will in the end be the cheapest around and have that 99.99% backwards compatibility physical and digital to their last console which overtook the ps2.
Yeah the prices suck but the hardware isn't as bad as it could be.

You are right, it won't get the young kid/casual support like switch 1 did, as its too expensive. In a time when things are more expensive. The most affordable will win. That is Nintendo by default (on hardware sales).

Also Sony lost their cred, except for hardcore fanboys.
- They killed off Japanese 1st party (outside of 1 studio, which imo made their best game this gen)
- They killed off indie focus that the PS3 and early ps4 had (yeah they get indies but they aren't promoted and curated like ps3. )
- They have the worst backwards compatibility with the largest library to dip into. (seriously you can only access around 15 or so ps1/ps2 games and no ps3 games unless ported. Meanwhile Nintendo has their emulators for every system tied to online access, and limited to mostly 1st party but better than sony. Xbox has way more BC with xb360 and OGXB, but they delist games and seem to be "done with it", still better than sony).
Sony used to be the king of backwards compatibility with the ps2 and ps3. PS4 was when they stopped as you can't even play ps1 games yet they would work if sony paid the .05 cents per console for the "CD" license or whatever is missing from the console.
- They killed off any 1st party rpg creation. (no more legend of dragoon, wild arms, or dark cloud over here.
- They went woke and pro censorship (so did Microsoft), only Nintendo of all companies (who was super censorship in the 80s-90s now lets it be.
Shit I was playing a game with full on topless nudity from an eshop game last night. Threw me for a loop as my wife was in the other room and all the sudden the lady was in a bathtub with a tub in her mouth/throat and fully nude, making gaging sounds like she was deep throating the tube (Horror game Tormented Souls if you are curious, it was like $5 on eshop). Nintendo allows that and sony puts black lens flair on DMC5 clothed asses. Crazy times.

MS is just as bad, but more pathetic for rising prices and being woke feminists. Oh and delisting bc games. Splinter cell 1 &2, Skate 2, Silent Hill downpour, mk9, Bad company 1 and 2, all had to be bought on disk because by 2023 when I got my series x they delisted the online versions of these games. Ridiculous.

Oh and then there is the crazy install sizes for games that affects all companies. Why are games 100gb plus for digital downloads? Why not have an option, where you can choose if you want 4k textures or not. Are they really needed for someone like me who plays on 1080p tvs? All the games that could be half the size or less, with a simple button press. Some pc games used to have this option. Save space or have highest image quality.
 
I hope you are wrong, but I fear you are right. If I had kids it would be harder to tolerate the higher pricetag. I can see many parents going for some cheaper option whatever that might be, maybe a PC handheld that's easier to pirate/emulate games on. It's already crazy expensive to deal with the rising living costs.

I can assure you, the negligible # of parents that have the knowledge and motivation to do this have already done it.
 
Gaming is better than ever. People just like being miserable i guess and constantly wear nostalgia glasses not really remembering how gaming was in previous decades.
 
I'd roughly ballpark 15% crash versus 85% non-crash probabilities by weighing factors:

Destabilizing
- Industry layoffs: 25,000+ video game industry jobs lost since 2022
- Current "reset phase" with widespread corporate restructuring
- Declining console segment (-3.9%)
- Rising development costs for AAA games (hundred million dollar budget gambles failing frequently lately)
- Market saturation in live service games
- Studio closures worldwide

Stabilizing
- Overall market still growing at 4.6% (though close to inflation)
- Mobile gaming segment growing at 2.8%
- Strong upcoming title release slate
- New Nintendo era with Switch 2
- Growing global player base of ~3.27 billion

The video game industry has experienced over 25,000 layoffs between 2022-2025, with a record-breaking 8,619 jobs lost in Q1 2024 alone, indicating significant instability in what was once considered a recession-resistant field. AAA game development costs have ballooned to unsustainable levels between $200-300 million per title (with Call of Duty exceeding $300 million and GTA 6 over $250 million), creating financial risk similar to other entertainment bubbles. The industry is experiencing negative growth in console gaming (-3.9%) alongside studio closures across both major publishers and indie developers, suggesting the early stages of a potential market correction similar to previous industry downturns.

That said, the video game industry has experienced crashes before (not just 1983) these crashes typically require a combination of three key factors: disruptive technologies, limited product differentiation, and decreased entry barriers. While we're seeing some warning signs lately, it's true we're not seeing the "perfect storm" of all three factors that caused previous crashes. The current situation more closely resembles a correction or "reset phase". The most pessimistic industry projections suggest a potential 10% decline, not an outright crash.
Quite a few of your stats point more towards multiple shifts rather than a crash. If console gaming dies out, people will move on to the next thing. If Western AAA gaming dies out, people will move on to the next thing. Some studios close, other studios open.

The only thing not shifting here are the older gamers who keep focusing all of their attention on the tried and true AAA pillars. But maybe I shouldn't call them pillars, because that gives off the impression that they are a foundation holding things up. They are not.
But never say "never" when it comes to economics.
I will say never. And I will continue to say never. Again, like books and movies, this is a worldwide artistic medium. It has already ballooned far, far beyond the point of the 'niche basement dweller' stage from the 80s and early 90s.

This whole crash idea is more of a blackpill/doomer pipedream than an actual possibility.
 
I can assure you, the negligible # of parents that have the knowledge and motivation to do this have already done it.
I still think that's weird considering how even the oldest generation with little kids right now grew up with computers. There's really no excuse in being that tech illiterate for them.
 
Agree with most points but wish you wrote better as it takes away from the message you are making.

I do have some counterpoints:

Nintendo smartly combined their handheld and console platform, so a WiiU is not happening. We have benefited from this for their focused first party and not requiring another piece of hardware.

Microsoft moving on from exclusives is also great, and likely removes the need for an Xbox for some people.

The actual hardware is great, both PS5 and Xbox Series X. Many games offering 60 fps, improved backwards compatibility, fast load times, and suspend/resume, it's a much better experience that we probably take for granted now since it has been established as a norm.

Lastly, while PC GPUs are pricey, on the other end, PC handhelds are great in my opinion. I love my Steam Deck and think Valve has done great work on the hardware and OS, and continues to ensure their platform improves for the benefit of gamers and developers. I hope they plan on a SteamBox at some point for a more powerful option.
 
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I've kept 1 older game in my rotation at pretty much all times for some sanity. Right now it's Vanquish. But it is getting kinda old after being about 50% through the game.
 
Every time someone brings up how games cost $80 in the 1990s I want to punch myself in the face.

In the 90s, car payments were half as much
In the 90s, housing was much much cheaper
In the 90s, eating out was 1/4 the cost
In the 90s, groceries were 1/4 the cost
In the 90s, purchasing power was way higher
In the 90s, college tuition was 1/4 the cost


so go ahead, keeping justifying $80 games and $600 machines because it was just "like this" in the 90s.
Don't forget that the games medium also reaches more people today that the 90s. Not only are there more male gamers, but you also now have a whole new demographic in the opposite sex. This is probably one of many reasons why game prices have been pretty stale over the years.
 
Nintendo: They are creating a WiiU situation here. Of course the Nintendo Dorks will have it sell out for the first year of launch, after that is the issue. The Crazy prices, the confusing upgrade packages, and just weird marketing is going to confuse the Causal gamer. Like it or not, the casual gamer is where the big bucks are. Switch 2 will be a success but no where near the original. Corporate Greed hit Nintendo hard.

magical stop selling ahahahaah you saids it woulds fail now most preorders all times move goles posts

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I hope that all those money-grubbing, suit-wearing vultures crash the entire industry and AAA gaming spectacularly, so the market can shrink back to a healthy size and be run - and its games released - by gamers for gamers.
It probably won't happen, but gaming has never been so huge and yet so deceitful as it is right now.
 
There's still some good games coming out, but the industry does feel like it's gotten too greedy. Not much new interesting stuff either from longtime publisherss. Companies like Capcom, Konami, Namco, Sega don't make new AAA IP anymore. And don't even get me started on how shit Activision, EA, Ubisoft, Warner Bros and Take Two have become.
 
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Nintendo: They are creating a WiiU situation here. Of course the Nintendo Dorks will have it sell out for the first year of launch, after that is the issue. The Crazy prices, the confusing upgrade packages, and just weird marketing is going to confuse the Causal gamer. Like it or not, the casual gamer is where the big bucks are. Switch 2 will be a success but no where near the original. Corporate Greed hit Nintendo hard.
Given what has leaked and the history of previous models of Nintendo hardware I think people need a reality check of just what this thing is going to offer out the gate.
  • 360-540p gaming upscaled to 720p undocked and 1080p docked. With an iteration of DLSS4 (minus frame generation).
  • Frame gen, short answer no.
    • on a RTX 3xxx architecture will shoot Nvidia in their own foot. They said from the get-go that frame-gen could not work on RTX 3xxx because the optical flow accelerator was not fast enough to do it. And, so, if they give it to Nintendo they will have admitted frame-gen was always possible for RTX 3000 owner and it will hurt their brand and frame-gen marketing. Which is to say one of the major selling points of the RTX 5xxx.
  • NVN Gen 2 API. You will see a bump from EMMC (horrible horrible storage medium) to NVMe to support NVN Gen2. Why, well its been leaked that Nnvidia's Tegra T239 will support high speed decompression (think PS5) into video memory allowing almost instantaneous loading of game areas/sessions.
  • An atrocious reliance on Nvidia DLSS to port over multi-platform games to the Switch2. Which is funny considering that there has been an ongoing backlash at apparent developer laziness when optimizing game development reliant on FSR/DLSS to pick up the slack of shit game performance. Time will tell if the non-Nintendo party games continue this pattern or if Nintendo's projects also fall to this.
In short I think it will sell about 50m units lifetime compared to the 150m of the Switch 1. Not as bad as Gamecube or WiiU, but far, far from the success of the Switch1 which balanced price to performance to create an unbeatable value proposition. The Switch 2 compromises will age like milk over time and people are going to become soured to the lack of performance budget the console has for the increased price. Word of mouth will spread and Nintendo will have to make a course correction.
 
The only thing in OP's list that affects me is the lack of Sony 1st-party games - particularly from ND. That's it. End of. Other than that, I'm pretty happy. I have a load of games that I am enjoying currently, and I'm looking forward to picking up Expedition 33 at some point, along with GOY and DS2.

I don't need to worry about what's happening with PC, Xbox or Nintendo. I'll let their fans worry about that shit.
 
In short I think it will sell about 50m units lifetime compared to the 150m of the Switch 1.
They haven't had a (true next-gen) handheld sell under ~80mn yet. And now have both console and handheld combined. And it's been an 8 year generation. Or 12 yr generation if one realizes the Wii U was the same generation but tethered to the tv or Gamepad.

And specs? Specs don't sell Nintendo consoles. You're just insanely off if you think any of the spec talk you typed up matters 1 iota.

What matters most is do people love MKW. Will they love DK Bananza? etc.
 
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Dude, every topic you create is an angry rant. I can understand being frustrated with the state of the industry, because the last few years have been a brutal shitshow of unforced errors exacerbated by bleak economic conditions, but if you are this frustrated all the time about a hobby that should be a source of joy and escapism, then you seriously should stop following gaming news and just stick to the retro games you mention in your last paragraph. There's no value in constantly surrounding yourself with shit that only upsets you.
that's right, i occasionally check old games, and surprisingly they add my backlogs :,( but yeah, some of old games i never knew suddenly popping. sometimes i see it better than newer, sometimes i know why these old games are left behind the time. instead of ranting, we might should see old games we forgot they are existed. sometimes not even older than five years, i missed some games in these decades, and see it in the underrated or overlooked game list.

constantly ranting about games we didn't like is not good for the health as well
 
I'm still on last gen and have a 300 Euro laptop. Retro gaming is the flip side of the coin and its awesome. Think of all the projects going on right now.

The juxtaposition is a little strange though. It's like I'm permanently stuck in 2004 when it comes to 80% my media consumption these days.
 
In short I think it will sell about 50m units lifetime compared to the 150m of the Switch 1. Not as bad as Gamecube or WiiU, but far, far from the success of the Switch1 which balanced price to performance to create an unbeatable value proposition. The Switch 2 compromises will age like milk over time and people are going to become soured to the lack of performance budget the console has for the increased price. Word of mouth will spread and Nintendo will have to make a course correction.
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Rockstar: I made a topic a few months about why we have not seen any news or new Trailers on GTA 6 and of course all the shills quoted rockstar, "But they confirmed it was 2025!" Normally I understand a delay but not when your last game was 13 fucking years ago.

Nintendo: They are creating a WiiU situation here. Of course the Nintendo Dorks will have it sell out for the first year of launch, after that is the issue. The Crazy prices, the confusing upgrade packages, and just weird marketing is going to confuse the Causal gamer. Like it or not, the casual gamer is where the big bucks are. Switch 2 will be a success but no where near the original. Corporate Greed hit Nintendo hard.

Xbox: Don't even get me started. There are few exclusive worth a Damn anymore on the Xbox console. Microsoft purchased a ton of companies but I wonder where the fuck the games are? On top of that, they have the nerve to jack up the prices on their low selling Xbox Series console. Just fucking stupid.

Sony: Man they fell out this generation. So many great Sony first party exclusive games on PSx, PS2, PS3, PS4, and the PS5 is just crickets. There have been very few first party games for the PS5 and do not see much on the horizon. They spent Billions on bullshit GAAS games and have nothing to show for it. Compared to previous generations, the PS5 library is pathetic.

PC: The biggest player in the PC space Nvidia just released their most shitty product ever. The overpriced 50xx series is a piece of shit and not worth the value. It's barely an upgrade from the 40xx series and now you can openly find 50xx series cards on Shelves(corrected). They even lied about the prices when shown. The prices they displayed on their reveal you cannot even find at big named retailers. The performance increases over the 40xx series are minimal.

Thank god for game emulation and older games. New games keep asking for more money because of "production cost" but the product is getting worse. They want I and others to pay more money for a worse product.

Pathetic!
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Go play Minishoot Adventures and reset your palate and get rid of all those negative thoughts.
Then play Oblivion Remastered.
I hear Expedition 33 is good too.

Can always go back to some classics as well. I'm currently going through Hollow Knight as a side dish when not playing Oblivion. It's still awesome.
 
Thanks to the new Switch update, I can see now that I have 136 games. I haven't played half of them yet. And not finished 2/3 of them. Same situation with my PS5, I am drowning in games. And they keep giving me several free games each month (standard PS+ has a higher value than Extra/Premium nowadays).

Regarding the Switch 2, I've read the same things regarding Switch 1. Too expensive (PS4 and Xbox One were sold at the same price or even lower in 2017), not powerful enough, wouldn't have any third parties, confusing name, ugly looking games, and no games at all besides BOTW and a port of Mario Kart 8. We saw how it ended.
 
OP still trying their hardest to will the Switch 2 into becoming a Wii U situation

"It will sell out at launch, let's see how things are a year later" was the exact excuse people used to downplay Switch performance in the first year, and look at how that went for them lol
 
I don't think the state of gaming is bad, its just different from what it use to be.

The main difference is the slow down of AAA games, I think that has been replaced with these GaaS games but it makes sense because that is what majority of people want now and this is a fact from just looking at the money games like Fortnite makes.

GTA 6 has been pushed back for years because Rockstar has a gold mine in GTA online. Due to the cost of game development companies like Sony and Nintendo who focused on single player games without microtransactions now need to increase prices to maintain, its all a domino effect of the shift from people spending more time with GaaS games.

I am going to take a guess that your older because your on this gaming forum but the truth is this hobby might no longer be the right fit for you because its not the same industry is use to be and its never going back.

Honestly I don't even have time to play all the games being released so my experience has been mainly positive because I am not "dying to play the next best thing" because I have a backlog of great games right now to get through.

Maybe get a good gaming PC and start playing your old favorites or games you missed out on for now until something new that looks good sparks your interest. But if your looking for the industry to "get back to what it use to be" your constantly going to be disappointed.
IF I did not care I wouldn't be as passionate about it. The issue is that I love games but the new releases are shit. I get it that many are in love with all the new shit but I am not. I am simply expressing my opinion.. Also gaming is for me but not the new way it's done. Maybe just sticking to the tried and true classics is my space.
 
I pretty much agree with the OP especially about PC, but judging by the constant bad news we get and complaints everywhere it's not in a good place, i'm still playing Fallout London which is free and best official release this year imo Oblivion Remastered, a nearly 20 year old game that's had a make over, i can't speak for the console and handheld side of things, but the news i see on here isn't that great either lol.
 
I pretty much agree with the OP especially about PC, but judging by the constant bad news we get and complaints everywhere it's not in a good place, i'm still playing Fallout London which is free and best official release this year imo Oblivion Remastered, a nearly 20 year old game that's had a make over, i can't speak for the console and handheld side of things, but the news i see on here isn't that great either lol.
If this is the main place you get your gaming news, then your outlook for Switch 2 would indeed be grim. Garbage in, garbage out, as coders would say.
 
Not as bad from Sony. If all you can point to is "lack of 1st party games compared to previous gen", I would argue that's not that big of a deal. They have released great games and have supplemented their lineup with great timed exclusives (some of them still not going to PC). And OP plays on PC which doesn't have any great exclusives and that doesn't seem to be a problem there huh? Ghost of Yotei, Death S2, Marathon, Saros, Wolverine, Intergalactic and some others will have released before the PS5 gen is over. If that's poor support for you, then first party games wasn't an issue for you to begin with but something in particular for you pertaining your personal taste.
 
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