It’s the K-shaped economy.
25% stopped buying. 50% are buying and dealing with things as best they can. And the last 25% are rolling in it and paying exorbitant prices to show off and balancing out the losses.
MasutaHarada@thelemmy.club 3 days ago
Do they know most of their customers have budget and they can’t juat spend entirety of it for gaming stuff alone, let’s also not talk about their potential customers that will gated by those huge cost for entry-level gaming setup.
mycodesucks@lemmy.world 3 days ago
PieMePlenty@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Looking at my own gaming expenses, I’ve definitely stopped buying as much as I did say 10 years ago. To me it seems like the value of what you get for your money has fallen. I can afford it, but why should I? On one side, the corporations are actively trying to lock down everything and make it clear I’m just a guest in their theme park and on the other, they’re offering investment safe sequels and remakes of past successes. I’m also kinda tired of Sony’s “AAA cinematic gaming experiences”.
I may also be getting too old cause all excitement of GTA VI fell through the floor once I learned I can’t own a copy without the explicit approval or either console maker. So fuck that…
DrunkenDuckling@lemmus.org 3 days ago
Honestly, the value for money in the gaming industry is the best its ever been outside of AAA and consoles.
Market spending correlates this, more money than ever is being spent but its focussed on indies, AAA sales have been dropping.
PieMePlenty@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Yup, I do this as well. Most of my gaming expenses go towards PC games now.