The Harsh Reality Of The Video Game Industry In 2024....

[ViperChief]

They keep releasing broken and buggy messes and expecting full priced seventy dollar releases. I’m not buying unfinished games anymore.

[Particle_Ghost]

I reached the conclusion about a year ago that I pretty much don't care anymore. There is more than enough older classics to keep me busy throughout my lifetime and the same thing goes for movies as well. Not only has the quality dropped and prices have increased, but now I can't play anything or watch anything without propaganda shoved down my throat. For the most part everything gets a hard pass now.

[just_a_character]

Prices are going up, quality is going down. End of story.

[Mr.Reckless]

When the video game companies sold actual copies of their games, they never experienced these issues.

[AnotherWatchChannel]

This gen sucks. So I’ve gone back and I’m rocking 360/PS3 and haven’t looked back. So much fun. Games are actually complete, run off the disc, great single player adventure games, and the online still works on PS3. Even better, the games are $5-$10 on average. The graphics still hold up very well today and you don’t feel like you’re playing an older retro console.

[Deathsubtractor]

The fact that games are coming out broken and not quality at launch is sickening. Also the fact that they can take your games you paid for away from you is something I will never support.

[Constellasian]

The movie industry has suffered from this same problem in the video game industry. As you said, the 90s was a great era for video games. There were a ton of creativity that resulted in many great and unique games. The last decade or so has been plagued with reboots, remakes, and remasters, and it's sad people will spend so much money on this lazy garbage.

[JonnyMoto]

I feel like we STILL haven't gotten a current gen game yet

[utsavpradhan]

I miss e3. E3 used to force these companies to show something.

[MrGrimmjow]

The old games were created with heart and soul.

The modern games are pointless cash grabs with woke messaging. On top of that it has all these micro transactions, buggy issues, and paid DLCs.

I been spending my money buying older games rather than any new ones.

[YouKnowWhatIMeanRight]

The biggest problem with the gaming industry are the investors and their unreasonable expectations. FF7 Remake vs Rebirth is a prime example. Rebirth is a better game, but is considered a “failure” because it was released on PS5 (with less than half the install size of the PS4) and because it had no pandemic to push it, it didn’t sell as well. Also the fatigue of over saturation in FF and other RPGs and blockbuster games was to blame. We just got FF16 last year and I still haven’t had a chance to play that one yet (couldn’t put down Tears of the Kingdom at the time).

[jrtalkin]

When games increased in price I expected an increase in quality as well. So far that has not really been the case.

[jarrettreynolds]

This is the indie companies time to shine. Triple A gaming companies are laying off and indie games are thriving. Walmart is selling their games cheap and physical games are starting to diminish.

[youderpy]

1) Games need to stop focusing on insane graphics and be more about innovation. It should help games keep higher frame rates too. Art direction is why older games still look really good today.

2) The reason why there is less competition is because of game price/creation inflation. More people were in the race because it was affordable and you could take some L’s. That’s just not the case anymore. Which is Xbox and PlayStation are branching out from their consoles so they can make more revenue

[lwiay]

Everything's overpriced, New and retro

[calculateddeclination]

Got a gamecube with picoboot and a 1tb sd card, a 1tb modded ps vita and a 512gb modded new nintendo 3ds xl. Ain't no reason to play modern games when there are so many actual good games that came out in the past. I'm literally set for life. More if I could live longer.

[TheGamingCircle]

There's only one thing that's destroying the Gaming Industry??

[TVI]

It really feels like things are shifting in a direction nobody is sure of. Quite scary.

[GMThEMaN]

I've been following games industry for the last 13 years, and for the first time I have lost interest in current era gaming. And I think things are just going to get worse.

Im glad that back in 2019 I decided to skip this generation and instead play my backlog of games.

[Wealth_Wisdom_Discernment]

All the video game companies are laying off employees…. Because none of them are making games, at least not fast enough