There has to be a video game crash. There HAS to be.
- Digital-only route
- Digital content being removed from accounts
- $1000 consoles
- Subscription-focus
- 10 year game dev cycles
- layoffs
- studio closures
- even small indie game studios face closure
- AI slop-filled digital stores
Gaming got too big, too mainstream, too exploitable, executives got too greedy.
This hobby has become a hellish nightmare.
Surely we are at the bursting point?
Me walking out of the Illumination made Pikmin Movie after Olimar gets a collective 2 minutes of screentime and Captain Falcon gets the Pikmin to do a coregraphaed dance number to his hit song 'The Falcon'
"No you don't understand, I need $10,000 worth of RAM Sticks to rip VHS Tapes for people on Youtube......why are you laughing! I"M BEING SERIOUS!!! We only have a few years until all the rare anime is unplayable!!! WHY IS NOBODY TAKING THIS SERIOUSLY ???!!"
Wouldn't be surprised if the scrapped version of Prime 4 was more like the other games and Nintendo scrapped it to cater to open world normalstock garbage. BOTW's success oneshotted Nintendo and made them think every game has to have open world filler in it.