Comment on Young gamers in Japan may not be forming the same attachment to Final Fantasy or Dragon Quest because modern dev cycles are as long as their childhood, users theorize - AUTOMATON WEST

• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  most youths don’t like drinking wine

  Then they can wait six years between sips of AAA piss, I suppose.

  My friends with kids don’t seem to have any problem picking up Sonic, Pokemon, or Guantlet. One’s even picked up Eldin Ring.

  They don’t have the nostalgia

  You don’t need nostalgia to enjoy nice things.

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  • Rooster326@programming.dev ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Elden Ring is hardly “aged”. Literally dropped DLC in the last 12 months. There are modern Sonic and Pokemon games and they hit a short cycle time.

    The “can wait 6 years” is the whole point. They aren’t waiting. They aren’t getting attached enough to bother waiting. That’s literally the whole point of the article. Did you read it?

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    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      The “can wait 6 years” is the whole point. They aren’t waiting.

      You don’t need to wait to play games that came out thirty years ago.

      Plenty of young people are into retro gaming.

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