At least I still have my old games

Before cuckchan refugees decimated the catalog, we had a funny thread about Xbox's absolute disaster of a gen. I'm surprised PlayStation would pull out of hardware like Xbox is, the PS5 has been selling well. >>29611 Why would you be saddened by this? Their games all come to PC now and there's maybe two good PS5 exclusives. Barren landscape of a library.

yay :D

Grim.

>>29612 >Why would you be saddened by this? I feel like this is going to be part of a push to make games streamable via subscription services. You pay a subscription to play games and if your subscription expires you lose all the games. If they remove a game from the subscription then too bad, you can't play it anymore

>>29610 >Sony stepping down >Xbox stepping down >Nintendo going full Apple >PC being carried by Gaben The future of AAA looks grim.

>>29614 >an

Good

Well, great, non nintendo consoles are dead. fuck. I know I'm gonna miss this era of gaming.

I kind of hope budget tier consoles and handhelds come back. Like imagine if something as powerful as the GBA came onto the market for like $60 or so.

>>29633 >Like imagine if something as powerful as the GBA came onto the market for like $60 or so. The thing about consoles is that it doesn't matter if they're glorified pre-built PCs, tablets with bluetooth controllers or low budget raspberry PI devices with built in buttons. At the end of the day, the selling point continues to be branding and exclusives. Nintendo struck a nice balance where the Switch's infamously weak hardware doesn't matter because its hybrid functionality taps into the mobile market, so much so that a literal mobile port on the Switch isn't remarkable because you're not buying it for the graphics. They also don't need to hire half of India to make cinematic experiences, inflating the fuck out of their budgets. Their branding is so good that Nintendo fans will play all of the Nintendo-approved franchises and circlejerk over how they're true gamers for recognizing that NES character in Smash and how Ocarina of Time invented 3D while not knowing what Dragon Quest or King of Fighters is. Their excellent brand management plus exclusives almost overshadows their anti-consumer practices. Frankly, I think the future's gonna boil down to two things: Games as a service and digital-only. Steam is self explanatory and will probably get worse once Gaben isn't around to push back the infinite growth meme. Nintendo's been trying real hard to create an Apple-like walled garden environment (see: their shitty app), even updating their content policy to fucking ban you for "inappropriate use" outside of online environments. Even before that, they dipped their toes with ideas like the Labo (just how brainwashed are our customers?) and the 3D Mario collection (Just how far can we push our artificial scarcity model? How unfamiliar are people with emulators?). Beyond that, if Sony and Microsoft abandon their game divisions (not being game companies first gives them a safety net, always), I could see the likes of Google giving the market another shot but only chasing mobile micro-transactions and gambling since suits don't give a shit about pushing the medium forward.

>>29633 >$60 best i can do is 5 dolla an 14 cents

>>29636 >Valve >Infinite growth meme That's the thing, Steam is growing it's just that since they're private and actually somewhat competent and not tied to public investors, they don't need to showcase short term results on a deadline to attract those cocksuckers since everyone investing in Valve is either working there or cherrypicked and making fuckloads of money. Public investors just want a pump and dump and move on to the next thing, they don't give a shit about a stable ever growing business. Why do you think they love GTA?

These guys do realize that someone has to be in the hardware business or there's not going to be a platform to play their games, right? If all the majority of people have is phones and tablets they're not going to be able to do the same kind of shit anymore that they've been doing since they started. At this rate gaming isn't going to crash, it's just going to evaporate out of existence.

>>29638 > Steam is growing it's just that since they're private and actually somewhat competent and not tied to public investors when the kike fatso finally kicks the bucket, they either do korean jew style finance gymnastics to effectively sell the company to either a successor or one of his kids AND pray to shit said successor isn't a goddamn retard, or the company goes public

>>29647 >At this rate gaming isn't going to crash, it's just going to evaporate out of existence. I'm already on the nintendo ecosystem. That's not my fucking problem. If anything I hope it happens and gaming outside nintendo hardware effectively dies because it's become too infested with corporate bullshit and normalfag culture.

>>29659 this console is for gay niggers

>>29610 No playstation isn't going multiplayform If it would that'd be actually good

>>29660 Sounds like someone can't h a n d l e the overwhelming majesty of 1bit M~O~N~O~C~H~R~O~M~E.

>>29662 if this released in the 1990s or smth this would be a beloved artstyle too bad everyone has an hd 4k smartphone now so all of this shit goes out the window and everything is now gay, bland and corporate

>Dedicate their entire strategy to shitting out as many GAAS as possible, with Helldivers and Concord leading the charge >The former does well but the devs shoot themselves in the foot with nerfs >Then Sony tries to muscle in with their forced PSN account requirement for the Steam version >The devs of the game don't want anything to do with Sony anymore >Meanwhile, Sony creates an abomination like Concord that is so bad it's considered the worst media failure in all human history >Cancel several GAAS in response >Still somehow try to push through with Marathon after they wanted $3.5 billion on Bungie I do not feel bad for Sony at all.

I bet a random Anon here would make for a better CEO than these clowns, holy shit they suck at making me want to buy Playstation.

>>29755 You're not their main demographic anon, they want FIFA/COD/GTA/Moviegame normalfag niggers.

>>29610 It would cost them far less to do this. Just have a streaming platform and maybe pump out generic "home entertainment" systems like the ps5 every now and then. But this was coming ever since physical media was phased out. Eventually the goal is to make everything on-physical except for using some sort of device to access the content. Streaming is perfect for that.

>>29610 How about going for the game centric business model?

>>29854 Nah, they wanna put trojans in music CDs again.

>>29854 >game centric business model What nonsense, we need to make money, not videogames