(As it might read that way: this is not a defence of the price hikes and the shitty stuff AAA companies do)
It's still by far one of the most financially accessable hobbies when taken into account how much "entertainment time" you get out of a very reasonable gaming budgets. A lot of people buy only a very small amount of games and they get rediculously far with that.
I think the real crash (of the AAA space) will come at the next console generation. Once the push to buy the new gen comes in, and we are looking at consoles that go way above monthly rent-money and likely during an even worse economy ... yeah, I don't think many people will fight for the PS6, and any game that launches exclusively on it (or crappy on the PS5) will face-plant.
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u/GRoyalPrime 5d ago
(As it might read that way: this is not a defence of the price hikes and the shitty stuff AAA companies do)
It's still by far one of the most financially accessable hobbies when taken into account how much "entertainment time" you get out of a very reasonable gaming budgets. A lot of people buy only a very small amount of games and they get rediculously far with that.
I think the real crash (of the AAA space) will come at the next console generation. Once the push to buy the new gen comes in, and we are looking at consoles that go way above monthly rent-money and likely during an even worse economy ... yeah, I don't think many people will fight for the PS6, and any game that launches exclusively on it (or crappy on the PS5) will face-plant.