Gaming Will Be Dead In a Year… Here’s Why.
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- čas přidán 4. 03. 2024
- In this video I talk about how it seems like time is repeating itself. The gaming industry crash of 1983 is about to happen again. Not just with one ET game for the atari, no no no. This time, there's multiple games that are the same quality. It's gonna happen, and it's a sad reality. This video does not include Sweet Baby Inc.
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It would be crazy to see Nintendo survive 2 videogame crashes
Nintendo is pretty much the only console company that actually tries to cater to their fans. Unless you're a Star Fox fan...
Or emulator fans
@@rubikscubegaming2412 Your not a fan if you play on emulators you are a thief and deserve to go to jail
@@Gruntvc Every single Star Fox game after 64 sold worse than the one before, culminating in Zero selling half a million in Japan after being promoted heavily as a console seller. Now this IS their fault for messing up Zero to force a control scheme that inherently doesn't work (you can't focus on 2 things at the same time), but it's a painful truth that Star Fox makes no business sense to keep going unless someone high up gets a really money idea to bring it back or an amazing spiritual successor indie game comes out and sells millions.
@@rubikscubegaming2412 Or esports fans
That's why a lot of gamers rather to play older games than the new release games. Even indie games are better than AAA games nowadays..
I can confirm it in my case.
A Gamecube is my main console right now.
Older games are good. Indie except for sea of stars is pretty bad. I think games in general have just gone downhill majorly.
@@kevinburke1325 kill me, because I got a different opinion than yours on indies.
@ct2xperience749 the only good indie game was sea of stars.
It feels like the whole world is going through a crash right now. Back to back recessions.
Agreed, since we are rejecting everything that there is
Whataltist much?
Not really
@@SWOTHDRAYes, really. Infrastructure is decaying. There's a competency crisis. Safety is all but absent due no social or ethnic cohesion. War is looming on a global scale. Economic systems have been exploitative and out of control for decades. The idea the world is not crashing is delusional.
Yeah, my parents brought up that many *MANY* companies are laying off en masse.
We may be seeing a world crash, this year or the next.
hideo kojima is a very gentle and considerate yet powerful lover
No
Words that kill
There’s certainly going to be a crash, but it’s not going to be as dramatic as 83. There’s going to be major shake ups at AAA studios but there’s going to be a major emergence of more AAs and indies along with AAAs who manage to keep their budgets in line.
That's already happened AA and indies are more popular now the AAA
If anything, what's going to happen is a recession. A VERY major recession, but a recession instead of an outright crash nonetheless. But I still hope it happens regardless. The industry really needs a shake-up with its current state as it is right now.
The indie market is even more saturated than the AAA scene. 14000 titles released on Steam in just the past year. A major factor for the '83 crash was the sheer number of game releases that the market couldn't support.
@@lycanwarrior2137 saturation doesn't matter, what matters is that good titles are still being released. The saturation is only because it's easier than ever for anyone to make a game.
@@lycanwarrior2137 the only reason why there was a crash is because most games where only being made by a small handful of companies and some of those companies (Tiger and Atari) was just filling shelves with shovel ware. This is irrelevant now thanks to Steam and Gog not having a physical space to fill up and good titles usually get all the attention.
Video game crash wise, only AAA gaming (specially in this era) will be affected by this, leaving AA and indie gaming (as well as good old gaming) only what's left survived that crash because they're so good the new video game crash isn't as devastating as 1983 once was. So for those who wished gaming gone, go support good games, otherwise you're part of the problem of why good games flopped in the first place 🗿
The indie market is even more saturated than the AAA scene. 14000 titles released on Steam in just the past year. A major factor for the '83 crash was the sheer number of game releases that the market couldn't support.
@@lycanwarrior2137 The Indie market is fueled by little money compared with the corporate market, AAA gaming studios have to show insane profits to entice investors specially in a high interests rate environment, that will be the main factor in a future crash.
One of the biggest cause of the 83 crash was the gamers didn't knew which games were bad and which were good different from today, Indie games rely on of words of mouth to get users because they lack AAA studios insane publicity budgets.
The problem with the AAA industry is that the hype of their games only to lead to bigger disappointment.
I'm not worried, my backlog is large enough to keep me busy for several lifetimes.
I have a contrarian opinion.
It’s not that there are many layoffs, it’s that they hired too much without a plan.
Activision and COD have a 3 year dev cycle in theory. So they have an army of man power to keep the machine running.
But most other studios now seem to take 6 years to give 1 game.
The economics on these projects are INSANE!
Something seems to be changing. Seems like the Beloved indies that started getting popular with the release of Hades seems to be a new posible future for games.
You're onto something. Capcom is the only dev that has not fallen prey to this
@@prakharkirtijajoria5314 and Fromsoft
Blackrock is responsible
Players who support aaa trash too
Ty for talking about this I've had this thought for a while
Tekken 8 sold 2 million copies and more accounting then suicide squad killed the justice league to be real. This is understandable because tekken 8.
Films are also getting too expensive. They’ll probably crash at around the same time.
Can’t wait
The only celebrities in game that does make sense and are Danny Trejo and Daniel Dae Kim.
Daniel Dae Kim has had experience with working on video games with the old Saints Row games and Danny Trejo is just hilarious.
Don't worry you're not alone... lost my job almost a year ago, this industry needs a hard reset... I wish there were more CEo that are actually devs and not just financial people... not saying you don't need to make money but you can't sustain an infinite growth... They'll learn. We crossed the 10k lay off in 3 months... And yeah every job offer i see there is always 100 + people applying for it leaving no chances to the new comers and no chances to a lot of seniors like me that are " too expensive".
Man why did you have to say Jak 4. Now you made me remember what we could be getting
If they did i’d want it to play like the first game
A crash in the west, maybe. But as someone who’s been playing games from east for a long time, not really worried about the future of gaming.
This was the only thing I could think about even 2 years ago. I'm hoping that it will pass by when I graduate...
I think it’s good. A crash does happen in the game industry serve as a lesson of what not to do and a reminder as well.
Both video games and movies are going thru the same exact struggles rn bc when you combine art, which is subjective, with capitalist greed you get shitty art 😂😂
Restrictive artistic freedom is one of the causes.
every degree in tech looked so promising a few years ago lol we are all gonna get finished by layoffs
2023 was easily the WORST year for gaming. Hell, the last EIGHT YEARS have been FILLED with trash.
Except for Soulsbourne fans, those are everywhere.
@@docsavage4921 Even those weren't very good tbh.
@@Mother3Forever you need to just stop looking at western AAA titles, there have been heaps of great games that came out in the past decade, even in the past three years.
@@Ghorda9 Wrong. Even JP titles have been ass. Mostly BECAUSE of the Western companies RUINING them. But my point stands. The ONLY country that isn't suffering when it comes to AAA games is Japan.
Nah, 2023 had a ton of great releases. Baldur's Gate 3, Diablo IV, Tears of the Kingdom, Alan Wake 2, Star Wars: Jedi Survivor, Super Mario Bros. Wonder, Pikimin 4, Hi-Fi Rush, Hogwarts Legacy, Super Mario RPG, Pizza Tower, Street Fighter VI, Forspoken, RE4 Remake, Final Fantasy XVI, etc. 2024 has definitely been a worse year
I'm currently doing a masters in game art. It is a bit disheartening seeing what's going on in the industry currently, but I'm still hopeful.
Indie is really starting to rise, and I'm not too fussed on working for aaa, unless it's an IP I really want to work for, I do think Indie games are going to be the way forward, and I'm probably going to get a much more rewarding and overall better experience there.
And yeah, I think the main issue with aaa is, it's like you said, budgets are too high, executives not having a clue about anything that actually has to do with fun, and executives constantly pushing mtx rubbish.
Sadly on a lot of cases, aaa has lost the passion game development was built on, but thankfully we still have Indie, and sure they are considered "not as big as aaa", but they have the one thing aaa is missing, and that's passion, which makes them way bigger than aaa to me
So tragic to see how the industry has changed in the last 20 years. Would you do a video on AA and Indie Studios?
If a video game crash happens I hope that game publishers like New Blood Interactive and their devs don't get hit by it.
Good indie studios can survive it.
All this decay is not only in videogames, but in the whole world. This only shows how bad this greedy, individualist and mediocre generation is affecting everything
There’s a reason left 4 dead 2 and tf2 are doing way better than any other game right now
Really?how are their servers numbers up?
@@faizanyousuf6567 tf2 is getting 100000 players and l4d 2 20000
@@That_american880 most of the 'players' on TF2 statistics are idle bots that skim the game for loot boxes and giftapults.
@@That_american880 80% of tf2 player base are bots. L4D is morally outdated
@@Jackfromshack saying that l4d is outdated is crazy
Let's be real most of that "high-budget" money is not being used for the game development. It's like buying a more expensive sandwich because it's "more polished". People need to finally see that (Edit: Also, I hate guest stars too. Celebrity=/= Talented)
I've been playing games since the NES and for me it was 2014 onwards (PS4/Xbox1) when I noticed things were getting bad. There was a massive drop in both the quantity and quality of games coming out compared to all prior generations.
I think everything needs a reset, film, games, food, internet…. There is a landscape of information that corporations take advantage of and bar the way for anyone else to catch up. I long for the good old days where 16 bit and polygon games were a hit. We don’t need fancy graphics, or dlc or micro transactions. We just need more things like octopath traveler, megaman 8-9, Sonic Mania, Final Fantasy pixel remaster, we need games like halo 1-3, legend of Zelda OOT, mario Sunshine, Ty the Tasmanian Tiger and Rayman. Remember when gaming was awesome? Remember when we didn’t care about the price cause the product was well worth every dollar? Nothing coming out today is worth even half that, just look at the latest games on the market, almost everything is “story based cutscenes”, “open world”, “battle royale”, and “live service” and everyone ignores it cause they don’t wanna lose interest in their hobby. But I’m telling you all that games should remain games not this “message” crap companies are trying to push on you because it makes them look good. They don’t care about you or me just about what’s in your wallet. I say we revolt against these kinds of practices we hate and just enjoy what already was great to begin with. Support kickstarter project that genuinely want to make great games.
Thing is the game industry only crashed in America, however I do truthfully believe it will happen worldwide this time, also great vid as always
Those poor developers are suffering from incredibly bad project management. Does somebody think that you can create a good game in a decent amount of time if you have to ask Todd first for every rock you want to place?
And I'm glad that I can get enough dopamine by playing Palworld and catching pals. I filled my library with older and smaller games in the last Steam sale. AAA(A) is dead. And the thing I hate most in gaming are gamers.
My friend you don’t need to lock yourself in the gaming industry or whatever college tells you or university tells you you need to do. You can find something else to do. You don’t have to limit to yourself to something.
If there is a crash, I wouldn't be surprised if they suddenly cracked down on people playing on emulators. Just to force people to buy new games.
Here’s a tip: just stop playing video games and do literally anything else
First off: Layoffs within tech industry and company at large are occurring left, right and center. Games layoffs are bad, yes but so are other non-gaming industries. The COVID bubble has burst. Pre COVID norms are becoming mainstay again and that means WFH fat is being cut. Supporting Double A is important more now than ever.
It really sucks to see how unfairly the blame is shifted onto the hardworking employees who dedicated their efforts to these projects by the greedy company executives
Lol no
No those people suck too
The triple A devs that actually care got shafted a year ago, the only devs left hate gaming and gamers as a whole. I'm tired of people saying "but wait, the devs!" The devs are just as part of the problem as everything else. They choose to make big money working for AAA devs rather than makes something cool/worthwhile with a AA or indie studio.
The ps5 and series x both disappointed me I just bought a Alienware r16 with the i9 and 4090 and it’s so much better than my consoles
I think this video confirms i dont need a pc upgrade for real, like what am i going to play anyways with a high end pc a 60$ half-baked game ?
Man fr tho
day one patches, dei infested naratives, loot boxes, microtansactions, subscriptions galore, etc etc. just for that im not even gonna think about buying a rig EVER.
recently I just left the game industry after shipped out few AAA games. I just simply resign myself. But not just only layoff happen. But the game industry environment had become more and more toxic many stuff had happen internally. The thing why the game become less and less quality. Actually can't blame us as developers. More likely all those managerial positions fault. Like they to cut off the budget and time so the company can make more profit but not higher more people to resolve the employment shortage issue. As game developer we always force to OT without extra pay mostly work more than 10 hour plus how should we provide high quality stuff if we all in this type of environment making games mean to be passionate and fun. But nowadays was not fun anymore. Only become the slave for the highup.
I am doing game art too and they just fired 70 people in my country. I still need an internship but idk how I would manage with all professionals flooding the job market.
On the flipside, the reason indie games will literally never die is because inherently 98% of them are shit, won't make money, and no matter how many times you tell everyone that there will still be 3 people willing to make their dream game. That might be an interesting topic to discuss. Indie games are just as bad at putting money in their devs' pockets but they're always somewhere between hobby and side hustle.
I wouldnt call God of war's gameplay or any of Sony's games not fun,but I agree with most things you said in the video. I love modern games ,but I would also like having more lower budget ,yet good games like Stray or the last guardian .
I like the Prey music in the outro. Pls make a video about prey
I kid you not, my brother was working for a small business for four years and they laid him off two weeks before he got married. Never get convinced your employer gives a damn about you. To them you are a expensive contract. Nothing more, nothing less. The only good thing about all the boomers retiring is a much smaller labor pool available, which means that people have more bargaining power. I think the recent success of the UAW union in the US is a good sign of things to come. Chaos isn't usually fun in the moment but it can damn well create good opportunities sometimes.
the 360 and ps3 years are the good ole days
Ps1/ps2 were better. More creative and influencial. I love Uncharted/TLOU and many more but the ps3/xbox was too GREY/BROWN and too many shooters and macho games. Thank god for sony and the indies
The 360 has a lot of good arcade style games, Geo Wars, Bangai-O, Child of Eden and Raystorm HD are great. Plus the best version of Burnout.
PS2 has the best library though, God Hand, Contra Shattered Soldier, Shadow Hearts and Arc the Lad games, way too many to list.
Ah yes , sonic 06 , haze , dead space 3
Lol no they weren’t. The best era was the 16 bit era where budgets weren’t fucking people over.
To be honest, it was getting bad already by the time you got to college. Late 7th gen to 8th gen consoles is where the problem was appearing
Idt gaming will be dead in a year (that's a bit hyperbolic). We'll still have AA and Indie studios pumping out quality releases, but we will fs see a sharp decline in AAA gaming the same way Hollywood Blockbusters have been seeing increasingly slimmer returns. Yet another reason why we should bring gatekeeping back to this hobby (to keep the out of touch corporate suits as far away from what we love as possible, and instead, have actual gamers making decisions in the industry)
Square-Enix's recently published financial statement explains a lot of what is going on in the larger industry.
TL;DR the "core gamer" demographic is currently stagnant or declining while games continue to be more and more expensive to create. Almost all of the growth in the industry in the last few years has been in live-service and mobile games. For all but the hugest of IPs, sales projections increasingly can't justify the budgets necessary to give this demographic the kind of experience they demand for a one-time price of $70, and the recent high-interest-rate environment has made this even worse (both in terms of increasing the direct costs of making games, but also in terms of opportunity costs, i.e. how much money would we make if we didn't make a game and just dumped the budget into the stock market).
You cant tell me giancarlo wasnt good at far cry 6.Hes great at everything
He wasn't. He sounded and acted like Gus light. There was no real personality to his character.
To quote a certain reviewer "let's all laugh at an industry that never learnt anything thing te he he"
Gaming isn't dead, its just saturated. What will be interesting to see is how will it get back to what it used to be and who will make that revolutionary change coz those will be the big players of the industry in the future and it certainly won't be any AAA developer fosho.
I agree on Bobby being a goblin, but Tim Sweeney? Anyway the video's great.
People forget, and repeat again.
Yet Nintendo will continue to thrive like the Girlbosses they are. Especially since they seemingly respect their employees. They somehow manage to stay off the layoff list and pump out bangers. Sure, their emulation drama and taking down of fangames sucks, along with their less powerful hardware, but It pays off for them. People consistently buy their games and hardware. They are a shining example of how the game industry should be and yet nobody follows.
that's because they make games... not movies trying to be games... and they never cared about hardware.. It's always hilarious when some indie studio releases a game with "sub par graphics" and amazing gameplay and it literally destroys everything else and the AAA studios are "shocked" by this and then jump on the bandwagon a year too late. Really what happened is Xbox ruined gaming by bringing it into the mainstream, and gaming needs to go back to being by nerds for nerds. Gaming becoming mainstream was what ruined gaming. Please go back to calling us basement dwelling nerds, games were better then, please go back to playing sports.
@@cferrill1 no I think games are for everyone actually
Although Japan will be well below replacement due to extremely low birth rates within 20 years, same goes for South Korea.
For the first ever they're allowing in immigrants, this will not end well for Nintendo and ever other great Japanese company.
Sweet baby inc is a precursor to this crash
I've got so many games to play , I'll never finish it in my life time. 😂
It's very simple. Covid came, everyone was playing, studios were raking in the cash and hiring to get more titles out. Now we're post covid and we've got layoffs as the market cannot support this many employees. Actually it can but it has always been about investors and growth so goodbye devs.
Yea most of my college friends got into game during covid and bought basically anything they seen or what was trend with tons of ads now after covid it's just me and my high school best friend after 2022
Nintendo saving the industry from total collapse would be incredible.
I genuinely don’t want it to disappear as so many incredible people in the industry started independently but it needs to desperately change.
The AAA game industry is a shit show right now and prices need to go down. Australia's prices are unaffordable and it’s disgustingly greedy.
If it has to crash for ethical changes to occur, that wouldn’t surprise me. XBOX doesn’t seem sustainable. I feel like they are on their way out.
Nah don’t worry man, I studied in 2013-2017, wasn’t able to get a job at the office, was freelancing, working at a warehouse, in September 2021 I finally got a job at a studio. Also if you are born in a country that has English as its first language, then it will be much easier for you to get a job in the industry, cmon, if I as a Russian, was able to get a job in a AAA studio, then you definitely will be able to because you are from US/UK. Also I studied in Netherlands, a country where you have couple of studios with total of around 700 seats, meanwhile there are around 900 graduates every year… yea times are tough, but just don’t give up 💪🏻
CORRECTION: Triple A gaming will be dead in a year.
Indie devs will carry on like they always do.
Gamers will CONTINUE to play games, just NOT the Triple A ones, like how it was for us back in the 80s and 90s. While muscle jocks keep making fun of us like they always do.
It's hard to think it'll ever even touch the days of NES, Sega with Sega Channel, SNES, N64, and early days of Xbox. My dopamine has been drained for years. It's been dead, boring at every half put together corner.
Man! i'm thinking about this all day and i'm really mad too... i'm was about to sell my ps5 and then gta 6 trailer dropped. maybe after that🙁
The PS6 will probably be out by the time GTA6 launches.
It's the entire human experience that's crashing.
1998-2012. FACTS. I'm not saying that 2013, 2015, 2016 weren't good. They were, but they weren't on the same level as the years before.
@Proxidist you know the indie games and double AA games are doing very well you should try indie games.
this obsession with live services is more akin to the mid 2000's with the over saturation of mmo's trying to go after a piece of that wow pie and at this point i kind of want a crash
VIVA LA INDIE ❤
I think from this crash, those who have been laid off will rise from the ashes and many newer, smaller studios will come of this that will be able to create great, new content. Currently large studios are too top heavy. Too many execs that want to line their pockets and would rather outsource their work to the lowest possible bidder instead of build talent within, but this has also proven to be horrible because equality drops off dramatically.
I've been making the comparison between 1983 and today simply because they will listen to shareholders and chase short-term gains instead of researching why listening to shareholders and chasing short-term gains is bad for a company trying to stay afloat. It's almost as if Atari doesn't exist...
that sucks
A crash may be a good thing force companies to re-examine.
I work in gaming retail and even I didn’t know that Megan Fox was in Mortal Kombat until watching this video 🤷🏽♂️
while i don't think gaming will be dead in a year i do however think there will be some kind of gaming industry crash coming in the near future with the way the economy is currently at right now if things don't improve at all a crash in the industry will no doubt happen :/ thats just the way i see it :/ in fact it probably already has begun with all the dam layoffs that have been happening lately :/
Even in recent years some laid off senior game development employees have put themselves in huge amounts of debt to found their own indie studios and it often pays off for them because of their games being better than what AAA studios could ever dream of possibly making! :)
I lived through the crash of 1983. It primarily affected the console market in North America, and it left a vacuum that Nintendo swept in to fill a few years later. By 1983, I was mostly playing games on the Atari 8-bit computers. Though I could see the console side of things collapsing, the portion of the market focused on the 8-bit computers kept going for a few more years. E.T. was a high profile failure and is the symbol of the crash, but both the console and home computer markets were flooded with shovelware, and this problem affected the entire industry, from indie to AAA.
I see some parallels today. Failed AAA releases occur with depressing regularity, and this problem is worse than it was in 1983. There is also a lot of indie shovelware, but then, there has always been a lot of indie shovelware. However, there is so much information online that the shovelware is easier to avoid than it has ever been, and the quality products get noticed. This is a bright spot in the industry, and indie and mid-sized developers that focus on quality are likely well positioned to weather the storm. Early access provides a way for indie developers to fund promising games, though there is also a problem with games that languish in early access forever and never get finished. If gamers become a lot more choosy about early access, a correction or a crash could happen in this area.
There are also major differences between now and 1983. The industry is fully globalized, so if there is a crash, it is likely to be worldwide. The industry is also a lot bigger. If a crash is happening, I think an often-ignored part of the gaming audience will determine its severity. In 1983, there were a lot of "casual" gamers - those for whom gaming was an occasional pastime and who weren't fully obsessed or committed to the hobby. It wasn't unusual then for families with children to have an Intellivision or an Atari 2600, but they usually only had a few cartridges. When the industry got flooded with crap, many of these people got turned off, and the consoles went into the closet where they collected dust and provided shelter for earwigs. Nowadays, the casual audience is back in force. Companies are producing shovelware associated with familiar IP that they can flog to low information gamers. Mobile games are peddling microtransactions to people who don't remember the time before such things existed. AAA studios are producing flashy but shallow games, and people happily buy them. As long as regular people keep buying the crap that the industry is trying to sell them, the severity of a crash will be limited, even if hard core gamers abandon AAA games in favor of the indies. At present, we may be seeing a correction due to the world getting back to normal after COVID, companies adjusting after having overestimated the size of the market for live service games, and a few prominent flops. However, if the casual audience gets bored and turns to other forms of entertainment, as happened in North America in 1983, then there will be a crash of epic proportions.
I could see the game industry crashing, but something like the 80s crash? I highly doubt.
It far worst.
I stopped gaming for long time ,just I play now retro games ,million times better.
I wish in the future to create a video game.
But a finished product .with an amazing history,no bugs ,no microtransanctions .no bullshit but a game well designed for the players to have an amazing experience.
Also good mechanics.
Is not about money is about quality.
I don't think the entirety of the industry as awhole will come tumbling down, but more so the unrealistic ever growing bubble of infinite growth that the big game publishers are chasing. They have to get more profits than last year, make a even bigger game, gain more employee's to make said bigger games. I've been anticipating this for years now and it's just now that they're reaching the cirical point of the bubble now popping because obviously you can't have more profits each and every single year and be bigger than before so consistently. To them, they're making a product rather than an actual game, like a live service to drip feed tiny bits of content in over months while paying little money.
I'd also argue that Cyberpunk 2077 made celebrety apperances in games seem more appealing since Keanu Reeves inclusion got so much attention thank Death Stranding (at least from what I've seen). I'm thankful we at least have indie games to fall back on since almost every game release has to be slop we've had in the past 10 years with a new fresh spray of paint, sure you occasionally get asset flips or just mediocore experiences from that side of the industry, but I've felt so much more of an impact from them compared to AAA games in ages. I just hope at the end of the day that the real victims of this pop who are the employees get a more stable and better working conditions that don't put them through similiar stress as a military soldier and doesn't fire them 6 months later because the CEO needs to save up more money for their 6th mansion.
Their is a lot of good indie and double AA games.
Don’t forget XBOXs ban on curvy women in games. That’s the worst part. Everybody has forced overtime, cry more. But make me stare at that Fable Girl
or that Hellblade 2 thing… that’s a crime against humanity and makes the Baby Jesus cry.
The worst part of this comment is they are likely serious.
Maybe it's because we've grown out of gaming because we are all minimum 18 years old these days and have responsibilities, obligations and other things that remove our desire to play without any worry about the future and the present
The crash IS going to happen, but not quite in the way you might think: I suspect that the Triple A industry isn't going away, but will likely be almost completely dominated by either Live Service games that work as reliable legal casinos, or technically impressive but safe titles like Spider-Man. This will keep the general market of your average 30-something gamer engaged enough for the money to keep flowing into the industry enough to keep it alive, but I think quality games with stronger innovation will likely be dominated by the Indie Scene going forward. Allow me to explain:
As you mentioned in the video, a lot of the issue with modern Triple A games is their replication of crappy dev practices from back in the 80's. Mainline games are right back to treating video games as virtual merchandising opportunities rather than genuine art. A proper game should have a quality vision while also providing a fun, meaningful purpose to its core mechanics, story, and art direction, and that's all being thrown out the window to make the next big title a live-service cash cow. We've been seeing the same story play out with film over the last few years as Disney mismanges all of its big properties in an attempt to squeeze more money out of them despite their sloppy storytelling and usually rushed CGI. The difference between games and films is, while a lot of people will probably just choose to not watch a movie if they don't think its good, videogames' present a consumer with an INTERACTIVE incentive, which for many people is the only real reason they'll play games: To get a wish-fullfillment fantasy out of controlling a powerful character, or by dominating opposition in a multiplayer game. A lot of Triple A games will stay alive because simply interacting with those power-fantasy will be enough to keep them afloat, regardless of how safe the game is in its direction or how exploitive the predatory practices of the live-services get. In the same way that modern Assassin's Creed games are still bought by millions despite their unintuitive quality, future Triple A games will likely be very impressive from the standpoints of graphics and loading but fail to deliver on the same fronts in regards to gameplay and narrative expansion. And with that in mind, I feel that in the wake of the Triple A crash will come a new horizon for the indie scene:
Nobody's clammoring for AI art obviously, but what I think is overlooked is how a lot of AI advancements can be used for the ASSISTANCE of artistic creation rather than replacing it. With so many new powerful tools available to potential creators, budding devs now have more resources to get more done within less time and in smaller times (particularly in regards to more tedious technical activities like programming). This allows more focus to be put into the more conventional side of game development, and more ideas about its potential direction to be explored. And in regards to production within Independent teams, a lot of developments have been made in recent years that have normalized working conditions like working from home and collaborating in virtual offices, which have made working with team members regardless of location even easier than ever before. The Indie scene has potential to dominate the game's industry in a big way in the next coming decade.
But in truth all of this is speculation. Whether the game's industry will crash at all is still up in the air, as I'm obviously not sorting threw the stock market trends of big companies to see what's going on with the overall industry. What I do know is that I love games, and I hope they still stick around in a way that can eventually put its employees and its potential in a better place.
Hey Proxidist I know you’re not reading this but I think indie games are saving the game industry
The everything bubble.
You say video game crash like it's a bad thing but i think soon it's going to be necessary.
When i say "i love video games" i'm not at all thinking of modern AAA, it's changed, it's something i don't care about, it's a human suffering factory farmed into making crap games and i need it to stop. If AAA were to crash and die right now video games don't end, we're still left with thousands of indie teams and individuals making their passion projects, Lethal Company still comes out, Palworld, Penny's Big Breakaway and everything of a lower budget would still exist, Annapurna's not going anywhere, Steam doesn't go away, the only thing a "crash" would do is scare the live service obsessed suits and investors out of the industry.
Of course we would lose an insane number of corporate video game developers in the process but many would form into small teams and make smaller games, it would be the 90's again with smaller budgets and no requirement to sell 5 billion copies to make a profit or keep players perpetually online buying mtx.
Metal Gear Solid 1 had a budget of $10 million and video games have only gotten easier to make and easier to buy and play, you don't need $300 million to impress people, you just need a good idea.
One last thing from the latest DF podcast, when Remedy wanted to make a smaller cheaper game they made Control for €30 million, those are the games we need right now in AAA, smart, concise, well designed, well budgeted, limitations breed creativity, excess breeds excess.
nah this video will age like fine wine crash will happen
Their is a lot of good indie games and double AA games.
@@jamespaguip5913 There are also plenty of BAD indie games and AA Games, lol.
Well, if that happens, at least guitar will be my second priority🙂
Dead? Not really... Too many games to play, old and new 👌🏼😁
i feel like gaming peaked at 2017-2018
Its ok that tripleA movie games or not profitable anymore. No problem with that. Give us good gameplay games
AA is probably the best now triple A was probably the equivalent to AA studios like 15-20 years ago I only play games from that time period
I'm hoping for a crash will fix everything but I doubt it gaming's dead been watching it since the '90s when I grew up, 30 years nothing has changed
Tim Sweeney has never played a game before? He was big into arcades and consoles back in his day, though he downplays his interest today. Not to mention he was critical in the development of the Unreal Engine and Unreal, a game that heavily influenced many game developers and inspired many games since its creation.
far from worst industry to work in
For the publishers its not about sustainability its about constant growth
We seen xbox roadmap... I think Xbox has it figured out.. Playstation might be in trouble
It’s also now getting worse with Microsoft seemingly considering the possibility of shutting down their entire game development division with them now closing down tons of studios that they own with everyone at those studios getting laid off. Mojang might be lucky to escape it because of them being a massive cash cow for Microsoft but could possibly still end up getting sold off.
Actually, out of all the ‘bad’ games from 2023 I actually am having a fun time playing The Walking Dead Destinies. No matter how the graphics, cutscenes and voicelines in this game are.
Honestly after GTA 6 I think 2026 will be the here and I hope that's not true but I think that's going to happen
1991-1996: Industry releases CD add ons for multiple systems (TurboGrafx 16, Sega CD and CDX Atari Jaguar CD) stressing FMV scenes and content. During this time, TWO FMV consoles also released (Philips CDi and EA 3DO). Gaming public never warms up to "games as a movie" and consoles suffer huge losses.
2024: The circle is complete. Despite 33 years of technological evolution in gaming, FMV still sucks.
The TG-16 was a distant third to Nintendo and Sega, the Sega CD was an add-on and add-ons even back then were known not to sell very well, and just the fact that you mentioned the Jaguar CD tells me that you probably didn't grow up in that time. I did. The Jaguar didn't sell, and the Jaguar CD was DOA as a result. Also, the Philips CDi wasn't marketed as a game console. It was sold in informercials as a high-end entertainment device. Also, the 3DO wasn't from EA. The former CEO of EA, Trip Hawkins, founded the 3DO company which licensed their hardware technology to other companies, the first of which was Panasonic. Also, the TG-16 CD was really expensive when it came out, the Sega CD wasn't as expensive but it still cost a lot, and the 3DO was very expensive and out of the price range of the vast majority of gamers.
Also, if you played any of the FMV games from back then, and I played plenty of them, you'd understand why they failed. They weren't "games as a movie". They were more trying to make live-action film into games by adding some sort of interaction. To me, "games as a movie" would be Sony type games like Last of Us or Horizon, and those games don't use FMV.
Also, consoles didn't suffer huge losses because of FMV. Sega suffered losses because of too much hardware that didn't sell, and Nintendo certainly didn't follow the FMV trend. And Sony expanded the gaming market with the PlayStation not long after FMV started gaining a bit of the spotlight mostly thanks to Congress going after Night Trap as being bad for children, and the PS was about 3D gaming, not FMV games.
Gaming in the past was like anime on tv . The corporations , based themselves in how many viewers saw the anime of the time . Gaming had some degree of freedom when choosing the content . Now , the liberty is censored or must be “competitive” to have green light . You can see that the narratives and story telling got degraded in recent times . We are just either playing remasters or playing political related topics .
I miss the 360 era so much. It's pretty much peak gaming. Modern Console libraries are lacking so much in selection & quality. Devs should never stop taking inspiration from previous gens. Timeless games don't need hyper realistic graphics. Some of the best games have unique art styles, unique damage effects, smaller more interactive environments, destructible objects, physics like effects or funny cartoonish or absurd type of effects. Anytime i say this someone in the comments always says: "umm well we have indie games" but my point is we need this kind of game selection on CONSOLES as well. PC's have steam & tons of access to a unique library of creative projects. Look at the Game Library of the most recent game consoles? Now look at previous generation consoles? There's no competition. It's not even close to the PS2, N64, PS1, Xbox, GameCube, Dreamcast, 360, PS3, etc.
If game devs & game companies realize they are wasting such insane amounts of $ & time to make a game that still runs so terribly (no matter if u have the best PC possible. Which proves it's how these games were made. Not the tech hardware needing a upgrade. I bet we haven't even come close to pushing modern hardware to it's limits yet) *So if devs & companies can see it might not take so long to make a game, not cost so much money to make EACH GAME. Give these things a chance to prove they are capable of being timeless. Hopefully we see a resurgence of pure nerdy passion & focus from devs if they are allowed to just focus on smaller passion projects. Especially with today's technological advancements. Previous games should still inspire newer games no matter how far into the future we go. We shouldn't leave those unique aspects of gaming in the past. Hopefully the struggles of the modern day triple AAA games will organically shift change back towards a better direction. I just worry about the gaming industry being at a certain point where people who are severely out of touch with the core gaming community are the ones that are making the most decisions and forcing devs to do things they completely don't want to do because they know it's a bad idea.. I wish we didn't have so many game companies get bought out. I miss when a game was a project worked on by a group of passionate people who decided they wanted to create this passion project.. Now it's like a popular underground band getting bought out by a mega Corp and now they have full say in the way they play music and when they play music and what they say in their music.. I hope gaming snaps out of this dark chapter and they find their roots they left in the wake of the Y2K era..
I suspect these high octane triple A games are a fairly safe bet for the large companies. Personally I don't really play for the graphics, I enjoy the stories and the gameplay loops that good games have.
I don't really buy Indies, I have stardew that I live, and a few I guess you would call them single A titles like factorio and Satisfactory.
It would be cool if someone like capcom could make more single a games. Like imagine they went though and gave something like Dino Crisis the look of the original resident evil remake.
Even Sony could do a slightly lower budget spiderman, maybe a side scroller with comic book cut scenes and a good artstyle like spiderverse(obliviously not as good).
Something like starfield vs fallout 4, I honestly don't care for the increased graphical detail, I'd rather explore a lovingly crafted super market than 'generic science base'.
You are right. I tell you why this is happening over and over and no one is saying this. All the game Company's dont use there own money to make games and if there ESG score is high enough they will get a much lower interest rate ( atm with out a high ESG score it is 8.500 % pa in Mar 2024 and with a high ESG can cut that by 1/2 or more ) and there is $7 trillion in the fund for this so dont count it to stop happening for 30 more yrs. Allso when a Big Company lose money they just wright it off on tax and let the small Co,s that they hire fail ! So is a win win for them and a lose lose for us !
With interest rates rising investor are not willing to pump this gaming companies like in the pas,t add to that disappointment from gamers and we are heading to a corporate gaming crash. The main survivors will AA studios and Indie developers, is game over.
ET was one of the first games I ever played. I'm glad I played better games like Pitfall, Pole Position, and Pac Man before that or I might have thought video games were terrible.
As for why celebrities are all over voice acting now, you can trace that all the way back to Robin Williams voicing the Genie in Aladdin. Before that, voice acting was seen as C list work that nobody doing well would touch. Now, it's seen as basically easy money. Yeah, they don't get paid as much as an actual movie or tv show, but you don't have to go through all the prep of filming either. Just show up, go in the studio, record your lines, and leave.