When was the last video game crash?
I guess I didn't know there was a crash beforeIt was back around the time they started burying the ET Atari game in the desert. That game is a great example of why the industry crashed back then.
I guess I didn't know there was a crash beforeThis is actually the reason 198 5 's Nintendo "Entertainment System" was marketed as such and looked more like a VCR than a console.
1983 and circumstances were very different then.
I was still pretty young back then. Didn't realize that was an actual "crash".
I was 7 and remember it pretty well. I had already been gaming pretty regularly for a few years.
I guess I didn't know there was a crash before
I clicked maybe but i regret not clicking partial. We'd benefit from Life service shit crashing so hard they never consider that nonsense again. Likewise games with bloated budgets that follow the same stupid formulasThese are not the games that would be crashing.
These are not the games that would be crashing.
A third of all game devs have been fired in the last year.
Kim_Seong-a posted... Industry-wide probably not. But if we could get this live service GAAS bubble to pop that'd be great. Hopefully Suicide Squad is a sign of things to come
Partial crash as AAA needs to go back to the drawing board.These, if indies are making really great games then these AAA game studios can make waaaay cooler games than they are now with the amount of money and people they use to make them... if they can stop making the same slop over and over and over again and actually tried to make something new and good instead of relying on & killing off old IPs or using scummy tactics just to make money.
Just wanted to point out how insane the 80s video game crash was. Total estimated video game revenue did not return to the level of 1982 until about the year 2000.There are a LOT of interesting data points here, but the one that surprised me the most is where overall revenue actually declines after the release of the 2600.
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/4/4ce2affe.png
There are a LOT of interesting data points here, but the one that surprised me the most is where overall revenue actually declines after the release of the 2600.
Just wanted to point out how insane the 80s video game crash was. Total estimated video game revenue did not return to the level of 1982 until about the year 2000.handhelds dying that slow death at the behest of mobile gaming is sad to see.
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/4/4ce2affe.png
1983 and circumstances were very different then.
Ya, but did you really feel it?
From a gamer POV nothing really changed.
I dunno about that, I think Kill The Justice League did some harm to the live service formula.Live service games would be the last things to go in the event of a crash. If you think a corporation would prioritise the smaller, more creative studios over the self-propagating cash cow slop, you are deluded.
They aren't the ONLY games that could be crashing, but a few more KTJL type failures (or even underperfomances like Avengers) could finish off or at least heavily reduce the model.
I almost entirely play indie games and older games so I don't have a massive amount of skin in the game
Video games and the Video game industry in 1983 and 2024 are vastly different. They are like two different worlds.