ThinkpadIL wrote on 2024-01-04, 10:33:
Today, after some time of not doing so, I decided to watch latest videos of The 8-Bit Guy and LGR. Instead of interesting content that we all used to see in the past years I wasted about 25 minutes of my life on a quite boring monologue of The 8-Bit Guy about how unfair the world is and that he finally decided to find a job. Another 10 or so minutes was wasted on LGR's review of The Sims 4 For Rent Expansion Pack, some nonsense expansion pack of the most boring game of all times (I know, there are many fans of this game and this is my personal opinion only). It turned out that it was the second review of The Sims in less than two weeks.
I don't know how about you, but I have a feeling that this year will become a year when the era of Retro Computing Youtube channels slowly but surely will start coming to its end.
I do not think it will be the end of Retro/Vintage-channels. It will go on. However I think we will see something happening that we thought were in the past.
The gaming market have fallen from loads of innovation and a sea of different genres and approaches to how a game are put together as well as the various gameplay's.
The gaming industry are heavily relying on the same formula's and only a few genres have survived. Unless we are talking homebrew and indi games. Most are not polished.
We are gearing up to an end of physical media's, and those media's that is left, are more or less just content holders.
Think of the rise of console gaming, when we are talking about "everyone game", and the last real two generations are the 6'th and 7'th. After that, genres have vanished
and AAA games are brewed after the same old recepie. And there are released more and more games, that follow the same pattern.
People are also being fired (or laid off to say it in a more gentle way) left and right in the gaming industry.
The sale of gen 9 consoles have also had a terrible and rough start, with all that chip shortage and scalpers.
At some point, people will get tired of gaming. Nothing fancy, new and exciting. Everything the same..... So my predictions for 2024 are not the end of Retro/Vintage-channels.
No.... That will live on, however we will see a major crash in the gaming industry. One of the big 3 will go away, or at least pull a Sega.
And perhaps MS are planning to do just that. Going from console making to games only. Or perhaps still sell consoles, but all of their games will require login to play.
Perhaps do it in a way, that the console is fully open for devellopment. Though if you plan on gaming so called Xbox games, you need to login exactly like on Steam.
They might even keep offering game pass, or evolve game pass into a pure streaming service of some kind.
That is my predictions for 2024. I might gravely mistaken. As what I wrote, are just based on a feeling I have. Just a feeling.....
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Those cakes make you sick....
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