Mat Piscatella: Industry spend CAGR has been basically flat since the pandemic, no significant upside room for player/hours growth, costs keep rising
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And market isn't going to expand magically as ppl are strapped for cash just like PS didn't meet its estimates.
Put things in perspective..
Tons of layoffs and closures
Industry not expanding
Sony not meeting sales projections
Etc..
All go hand in hand.
Pc is growing though but there's reasons for that.
Put things in perspective..
Tons of layoffs and closures
Industry not expanding
Sony not meeting sales projections
Etc..
All go hand in hand.
Pc is growing though but there's reasons for that.
Yeh PC is growing but it is actually growing the industry itself is the main thing. I don’t know tbh
Think something will happen similar to the film industry in 2020-2022 soon, then the market will rebound
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Way too many low quality games flooding the market. People have limited time, some of the high quality games are also huge time sinks. 2025 is only going to be worse as GTA6 will drown out every other release.
Helldivers 2 demonstrate how much money they are losing by exposing their games to piracy on PC or does anyone actually believe Spider-man and God of War are smaller releases on PC compared to Helldivers? Turns out the people spending tons of money on GPUs were saving money when it came to buying games.
Helldivers 2 demonstrate how much money they are losing by exposing their games to piracy on PC or does anyone actually believe Spider-man and God of War are smaller releases on PC compared to Helldivers? Turns out the people spending tons of money on GPUs were saving money when it came to buying games.
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How this works:
- Companies: Increase prices even when it's not justified
- Consumers: You're increasing prices too much
- Companies: Despite profits, lay-off a bunch of people
- Consumers and former employees: With price increases, we can't spend more
- Companies: Surprised Pikachu face.
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It's crazy...
Games going to $70
Ps plus drastically increased
DLC and mtx all over the place
And we still overall get less! Same in every other industry. Fucking juice companies raised prices but made juice containers smaller
they took away like 10 ozs
- There's just too many games and ways to play.
- your phone is an absolute beast of a gaming device. Add a controller and some ROMs/ISOs and you are set with a collection of games to last you a lifetime.
-Also AAA games from the 9th generation have been disapointing bar some exceptions. And they take longer than ever to get to market.
- AAA games take a long time to be beaten, specially AAA RPGs
- lots of F2P games that are huge time sinks.
- your phone is an absolute beast of a gaming device. Add a controller and some ROMs/ISOs and you are set with a collection of games to last you a lifetime.
-Also AAA games from the 9th generation have been disapointing bar some exceptions. And they take longer than ever to get to market.
- AAA games take a long time to be beaten, specially AAA RPGs
- lots of F2P games that are huge time sinks.
Shrinkflation + inflation was amazing. I'm spending about double what I spent in food, and I started buying cheaper food. Energy... It has decreased in price, however I'm still paying over double (almost triple) of what I paid before "the Ukraine war", even though prices came crashing down on the "free market" (for energy companies, that is).And we still overall get less! Same in every other industry. Fucking juice companies raised prices but made juice containers smaller
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And in terms of production value there still isn't something that is clearly multiple steps above what RDR2 and TLoU Part 2 achieved many years ago.It's crazy...
Games going to $70
Ps plus drastically increased
DLC and mtx all over the place
And we still overall get less! Same in every other industry. Fucking juice companies raised prices but made juice containers smaller
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Those games visually are insane for what they are doing too. Especially RDR being open world.
I believe those games would have been bigger if they released day and date.
Bigger piracy for sure. Why does it matter if the game is old or not on PC if it was never playable there before?
If it's old it mean they went and bought a PS5 to play it? Games like TLoU, Spider-man and God of War, look better than 99.99% of PC games.
You don't think releasing a couple years old games on PC for full price or near it affected their reach? Not to mention a game's marketing is strongest at release.
PC gaming is living rent free in some folks heads. The salt could season a yearly supply of McDonald's fries.
And PC port beggars think porting games is like McDonald's eurosaver menu.
As I said. Rent free. The thread subject had nothing to do with pc. Folks in the gaming industry expecting pandemic like levels of spend are losing their minds.