Your media sources aren’t really indictive of monoculture. More the opposite and that’s the problem for marketers. It’s hard as shit to reach people because everyone can form their own niche media community. If people still treated IGN and like award shows as their mainstream trustworthy source, we’d still be in the pre-youtube monoculture
Comment on PS5 Exclusive Saros Has Reportedly Only Sold 300K Copies
Katana314@lemmy.world 2 weeks agoI just go to YouTube, Lemmy, BSky, maybe a few others. I don’t go directly to any major gaming news sites, since they’ve had declining track records for decades.
And of course, Steam. Criticize the monoculture if you like, but when Sony and MS have killed their community features in favor of EpsteinNet, it’s not surprising people will go to platforms designed to discuss games.
commander@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
At the same time, that’s not them setting the game up to fail; that’s you purposely excusing yourself from everywhere that people normally hear about games. I’m not sure by what metric you’re basing decline track records on, but wherever you hear about games on Bluesky or YouTube is probably still one of these outlets. Right here on this Lemmy community, we cite those same outlets for news, and Saros has been posted here four times on its own, as well as in a Sony State of Play mega thread.
deranger@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Yeah, they never talk about games on YouTube
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Several million hits across Saros’ trailers there. It definitely comes up on all the biggest gaming podcasts. So I’m not sure what the other poster’s blind spot is, but Saros is definitely there.
deranger@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Never heard of it before, personally.
LostCarcosan@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
I’ve also never heard of it and I’m usually pretty up on new releases