Kotaro
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The first video game crash occurred in 1983-1985. Now 40 years later, we have officially got a second crash (to be more specific, it's only Western industry crashing, just like the first crash)
Since 2022, we got
- Tens of thousands of layoffs in studios and gaming media
- Many studios and gaming media shut down
- Many projects cancelled
- Many AA and AAA games underperformed if not completely bombed
en.wikipedia.org
NOTE:
This collapse affects predominantly Western industry.
- Japan games and studios seem to be doing just fine, if not better than 2010s. Even Konami is coming back. Nintendo is at their peak. From Soft is emerging to become one of the giant studio. Only Square Enix is struggling.
- Korea and China are actually on the rise with several successful games, and many more are coming
EDIT:
some of you think that I'm just referring the recent massive XBOX layoffs and game cancellations as the crash, NO, that's not what I'm saying. I'm referring to the on-going bad news in the industry in the last three years, including Sony's massive blunder in their GAAS ambition and culminating with the XBOX news, as the industry crash
Since 2022, we got
- Tens of thousands of layoffs in studios and gaming media
- Many studios and gaming media shut down
- Many projects cancelled
- Many AA and AAA games underperformed if not completely bombed
2022–2025 video game industry layoffs - Wikipedia
NOTE:
This collapse affects predominantly Western industry.
- Japan games and studios seem to be doing just fine, if not better than 2010s. Even Konami is coming back. Nintendo is at their peak. From Soft is emerging to become one of the giant studio. Only Square Enix is struggling.
- Korea and China are actually on the rise with several successful games, and many more are coming
EDIT:
some of you think that I'm just referring the recent massive XBOX layoffs and game cancellations as the crash, NO, that's not what I'm saying. I'm referring to the on-going bad news in the industry in the last three years, including Sony's massive blunder in their GAAS ambition and culminating with the XBOX news, as the industry crash
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