The Video Game Crash of 2024...

Hello guys and gals, it's me Mutahar again! This time we take a look at what appears to be constant layoffs after layoffs in an industry we're all passionate about. Is the market about to crash like it did during the 80s? Let's find out! Thanks for watching!
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[andreibaciu]

AAA gaming in 2030
>online only
>costs $75
>bajillion decorative items that are AI slop
>200 Gb size
>100 Gb zero day patch
>20 DLCs that cost $50 each, but are that kind of DLC that you still have to download, and paying only activates it for you
>Servers shut down 2 years (at most) after release
>Graphics look mid despite requiring high end GPUs
>Bugs that are never patched

Gaming isn't dying, the AAA Industry is,

[nobodycares]

Releasing unfinished games for $70 doesnt help. Too many live service games and to much trying to milk customers for everything they got aka loot boxes, microtransactions, battle passes, pay to win, and releasing broken games

[doclouis]

It's less of a "crash" and more like a recession for the triple A gaming industry.

[ozthebeeman]

It's not dying in the way that it's going away, It's dying in the sense that it'll lose everything that made it special and will become a husk of its former self

[lilac]

I'm a concept artist, and I was laid off just 2 weeks after getting hired at a major studio. Luckily I still have a part time job as an art professor so things aren't completely dire. Many of my friends were also laid off, and we decided this would be the time to work on the indie game we have been talking about for years. We are only a team of 6 right now and working on a volunteer basis, but we have a dozen other talented people who want to join. I know projects like ours are a long shot but with a group of very skilled artists, writers, and game designers with lot's of professional experience behind our belts.

[Shizzmoney]

I hate how "sunsetting" has replaced "cancelled" which used to be "killed" or "eliminated" when it comes to describing discontinued corporate project failures

[smjaiteh]

Usually this is a cycle:
1. Layoffs ->
2. Lots of free agents making their own productions ->
3. Productions are modest but successful ->
4. Big Video Game, hurting for prestige, acquires modest production studio ->
5. Cycle comes around again 5 or 10 years later.

[maxmaidment]

Gaming is bigger than ever. The reason megacorps are trying to exit the market is because we expect more from games these days and they aren't prepared to fund passion projects that we gamers enjoy. It only makes business sense for them to make games if they have a cookie cutter model that earns them free money. Over the last 5 years or so we have collectively rejected that model.

[kickstand]

Unsold copies of Forespoken, Suicide Squad: KtJL, and PlayStation Portals buried in a dump in a New Mexico dump when?

[EdinMike]

Honestly, I’ve enjoyed the Indie market far more for the last 10 years probably at this point.

[Marco_Onyxheart]

It's not just gaming. There's a giant recession looming. I'm an embedded engineer and I got recently laid off. Finding work is more difficult than ever. In a country that has been screaming about engineer shortages for decades. And suddenly there's just no work. We're in for another once in your lifetime economic crash

[FrenchToast_]

As an engineer in the tech world, tech companies expanded WAY too fast it wasn’t sustainable this is affecting far more than just video games. Also there’s going to be a global economic crash at some point this is basically preparations for that

[NotSuperSerious]

if only they focused on making games instead of milking machines, then they could probably budget more accurately, and avoid flop after flop that costs hundreds of millions to make

[duser]

God bless indie devs. Single-handedly keeping the heart of gaming alive since loot boxes became a thing

[wantsome-zssq]

I lived the crash in the 80's. People were still playing video games. A bunch of my friends had Atari's. The hobby was flooded with so many games people didn't know what to buy. I remember seeing massive bargain bins at toy stores full of games. All we had to go by was word of mouth on what was good. I had a buddy that was mowing lawns to buy all the games he could. Games were less then $5 at the time. We were starving for something new. Thats why when the NES game out it was such a hit. We used to walk to the local electronic store and they had a NES on display with a couch. We would sit there and play Super Mario until they kicked us out. Atari crashed because there was no new generation until the NES came out.

[gunbladelad]

So many people forget that the videogames crash back in the 1980s was very much localised to the USA - most of the rest of the world quite happily kept on gaming without any problems - but of course, Europe in particular was keener on home computers at the time than games consoles. In fact, that's why so many game development companies spung up in Europe - courtesy of the sheer amount of bedroom coders in the 1980s.

[TheCrazyCanuck]

This is what happens with publically traded companies, when revenue dips the heads roll. It's such a short sighted way to operate and I wish more of the game industry didn't have to answer to public shareholders.

[JoshuaOdionson]

People are getting tired of having to buy shitty games that are full price. If a game is shit but cheap, that's one thing. If a game is shit but 40+ bucks people feel robbed, especially with as many people are struggling financially now. It seems like a lot of game studios seemed to think that big meant good. When massive games were newer, studios could get away with that.

[JARV]

All I heard was "We need money to pay our shareholders, so, we gotta cut our expenses." (There goes a huge chunk of the employees responsable to create their main product)

[jubei]

Yup, 54 year old 'gamer grandad' here. Been playing games since Space Invaders in the late 70's & still play them pretty much every day lol