NEW: In my latest column, I give my thoughts on Sony ending production of physical PlayStation discs.
I'm only scratching the surface, but the future looks bleak for consumer ownership of games.
We've reached the end of an era. It was a good run.
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I’ve always disagreed with a lot of max’s takes, but this is by far the dumbest. Trump is indeed to blame for a lot, but this isn’t one of them. It’s ultimately Sony and gaming companies as a whole.
It’s been a slow descent, but then in one day Sony did a speedrun of destroying what little goodwill people still had left toward them.
A dark day for the video game industry. I can’t even laugh about it.
The same Nintendo that:
-Shut down the Wii Shop Channel, rendering most Virtual Console and WiiWare games unavailable
-Locked GBA, Genesis, N64, and Gamecube games behind a premium subscription paywall
-Said N64 and Gamecube games have horrific netcode and subpar emulation compared to unofficial emulators
-Shut down a rom site hosted by a couple and sued them for $12 million
-Shut down numerous fan games such as AM2R, Pokemon Uranium, DMCA Royale, and Link's Awakening DX HD
-Demonetized gaming Youtubers during the Wii U era for showing Nintendo games
-Offered said Youtubers a partner program that would hamstring them into being 'yes men'
-C&D'd The Big House during COVID for using slippi for a Melee tournament
-Shutting down a Splatoon 2 tournament when a few teams had Free Melee names
-Shut down a mental health fundraiser for making custom JoyCon shells (all within a month)
-Had several people arrested for modifying their Switch files
-Sell nearly 10 year old games for $70 and never putting them on sale
-Sell cardboard for up to $90
-Sell a tech demo for $10
yeah okay
It's the same reason why the Steam Deck is no longer worth getting at its current retail price.
Lower specs are acceptable if the price matches that, but we don't live in normal times for these consumer electronics. The whole market is a shitshow. You don't hate AI enough.
With how weak the yen is amid rising costs of living, the majority of Japanese consumers are automatically locked out of buying a Steam Machine.
Beyond that, Valve could not have been cursed with worse timing. AI data centers have absolutely destroyed the PC market.
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“You expect me to *play* video games? I was born with glass bones and paper skin. Every morning I break my legs walking to my desk, and every afternoon I break my arms trying to lift a controller. At night, I lie awake in agony until my doomscrolling puts me to sleep.”
This is also only a recent phenomenon with video games.
It’s primarily because zoomers, to use their slang, have cooked attention spans. Putting the phone down and actually committing to a video game is too much to ask for with a lot of people.
That’s how bad it’s gotten.
>If you bought the Cloud versions you will lose access to them in a year and have to buy them again, b-but you get a discount!
And this my friends is why Cloud Gaming™ is a scam
Utterly ridiculous that they won't give people a free upgrade, but on the other hand you're kind of a sucker if you put money down for a cloud game.
You literally own nothing. As soon as the publisher decides to pull the plug on the server, it's sayonara. Don't support this BS.