Does this sound stupid to anyone else?
Like, the crowd you’re “losing” to TikTok is unlikely to even go out and buy a console either way, am I wrong?
tal@lemmy.today 1 week ago
We’re losing the next generation to TikTok. The competition for gaming isn’t Xbox and Nintendo. It’s everything else in the freaking zeitgeist that can take your time away from your gaming activity.
Round two: the television strikes back.
LiveLM@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
Flamekebab@piefed.social 1 week ago
But... but... the line has to go up! Don't you understand? It's not going up! Panic!
TORFdot0@lemmy.world 1 week ago
That quote is just horribly disturbing to me. He’s basically letting the mask drop that their endgame isn’t to make great games, it’s to make you hopelessly addicted to screen time that you obsessively play and spend
LiveLM@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
Oh you should read the next part
The pandemic gave us an unnatural pop for gaming, where we thought, ‘oh my god, gaming is the biggest thing in the world’. Yeah, when you’re locked down, it is the biggest thing in the world. But in a regular world scenario, you’ve got to combat against all the other distractions that are available to young people. And I’m afraid that we’re not facing that threat head on as an industry.
Motherfuckers see unnatural conditions caused by a once-in-a-lifetime event, think they’re the hottest shit ever, and when the numbers come back to normal levels they see other forms of entertainment as a “threat” that should be “faced head on”.
Lmao. How can an industry be so full of itself?
omarfw@lemmy.world 1 week ago
This is only a problem for capitalist shareholders (aka the ultra wealthy) who need to extract more wealth from consumers than they did last quarter but they’re already at the limit of how much they can do so. Now the largest barrier is time and attention.