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[existensmaximum]

No. Next question please?

 

[Loomy]

brah...i think the crash is happening as we speak.

But if the crash is never ending, will we ever know? If you Kratos yourself off a cliff, but instead of hitting the bottom, you just fall forever - is it really a bad thing?

 

[DKPOWPOW]

That’s for only ONE game, their most popular game MKW

That is a lie. They are also charging $80 for the Mario Party, Tears of the Kingdom, and Kirby PORTS.

$70 Breath of the Wild Switch 2

It’s a fucking patch of a regularly $40 8 year old game. They are really, in all honesty trying to fuck the early adopters. I think.. pretty much that’s it. If they can sell the console for $110 cheaper in Japan, nah dude. No, this is fuckery.

They see the retards spending $700 on PS5s and $70 on PS4 game remasters and think, ok we can probably do a little more before we have to backdown. Let’s just get as much as we can before we do price drop before Mario Movie.

ya fucks.

But a video game crash?

Dude, we had 2 Next Gen consoles launch with practically no games at $500. People scalped the motherfuckers and made off like Bonnie and Clyde for 2 years. Despite this the games are only just coming out now. GTA6 is finally about to appear after a 15 year coma. MS effectively ditched Xbox to become a Publisher, and Nintendo’s most innovative feature in Switch 2 is ripping off the failed Kinect and adding a mouse laser to a joycon.

The industry is making blunders after blunders, but still going. Another 10 years of this shit, yeah probably. But not now. More like a gaming recession, and one that has been here since 2020. I think the advent of A.I. + COVID fucked everyone’s judgment and we are seeing the ripple effect.

 

[Durin]

The industry is too diverse to crash, but I do think AAA will continue to experience real decline, and there will be limits to how much they can try to extract from consumers.

If other devs get the delusion to increase prices to $80-90 in days where we already see big releases regularly come out buggy and busted, while sales have so many slightly older games discounted to nothing...good god damn luck finding your next job after you're bankrupt.

 

[RetroGamingUK]

In the UK Mario Kart World is only £5 more than I paid for Final Fantasy 16

I know which one I’ll get more value out of.