Comment on GTA 6's delay doesn't mean the games industry's in trouble - it's already dead

AstralPath@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  If you’re someone to whom AAA games and nothing but AAA games encompass your entire view of the gaming industry, you’re a lost cause.

  This phrasing took me a couple reads

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  • CmdrShepard42@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Now read it in a Canadian accent.

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    • junkthief@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      AAA, eh?

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      • GrindingGears@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Just out for a rip, are ya bud?

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  • AstralPath@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Are there any grammatical errors? I feel like I wrote that correctly but you’ve got me second guessing.

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    • Chronographs@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I’d say

      If AAA games encompass your entire view of the gaming industry, you’re a lost cause.

      The rest is redundant

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    • Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      My favorite AAA games are the AAA games that aren’t like other AAA games, but more like the AAA games that don’t have AAA DLC first-day and instead, are like the AAA 6th and AAA 7th gen AAA games that released when I was 13.

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    • ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Upon rereading I don’t think so but the middle part just took me three times to read it correctly. Maybe just an uncommon sentence structure for me

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• theangriestbird@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  did you read the article? do you understand the state that the industry is in atm? Yes there are indie games and yes they are great, but it has become incredibly difficult to break into the industry. Most of the indie games that we celebrate these days are coming from devs that entered the indie scene over a decade ago, devs like Supergiant or Davey Wreden. We still have breakout debut hits like Balatro, but it’s becoming harder and harder. The Steam store is a nightmare for discovery. Gaming publications are flatlining left and right, so you can’t look to them for discovery anymore. 1000xResist was an indie title that was named GOTY 2024 by a few publications, but they only just crossed 100,000 copies sold about a week ago. Balatro broke big because of a lucky discovery by NorthernLion, but the reach of creators like NorthernLion is shrinking every day.

  TikTok and its peers are the new normal, and as the article discusses, this eats up the exact recreation time that people have been putting into video games and other long-form media. The kids don’t care about indie games because Tiktok is more fun/addictive. If they play videogames at all, they only care about Fortnite and Roblox and maybe some gacha game on their phone. Some of them care about indie creations within Fortnite and Roblox, but obviously even those games are becoming long in the tooth.

  So idk. Maybe Tiktok will become the new main discovery platform and this is how the industry will survive, but it remains to be seen if people will actually get off of Tiktok to go play the games in question, or if people will just stay glued to Tiktok itself.

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  • barsoap@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    The Steam store is a nightmare for discovery.

    It’s brilliant actually. I mean it’s still arguably a shitshow, but Steam is very good at letting shovelware sink to the bottom of their algorithms.

    1000xResist was an indie title that was named GOTY 2024 by a few publications, but they only just crossed 100,000 copies sold about a week ago.

    Not bad for a story-focussed adventure.

    Sifu sold 3m, Baba is You about half a million. The game may be brilliant, the GOTY award may be perfectly deserved, still ain’t going to play it because it’s not my genre. “Story-focussed adventure” is like a quarter of a step above walking simulator when it comes to ludological complexity I’d rather read a book. That’s of course just me, for the general audience… well, it’s niche.

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    • trashboat@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Also btw young people never drove sales. The reason is simple: They’re broke.

      And are more broke now than in recent memory. I’m a bit surprised this point is flying under the radar

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