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Ryuu96 said:

Fundamental changes in the US console space I've seen:
- player count and hours played topped out in 2021
- play dominated by a small group of very established 'black hole' games
- new game releases carry more risk than ever, new IP even more so
- spend growth has flatlined

— Mat Piscatella (@MatPiscatella) February 27, 2024

The console era where success was based on building the installed base and growing the software attach rate is long, long gone.

— Mat Piscatella (@MatPiscatella) February 27, 2024

Friends, yelling at me on Twitter ain't gonna bring the dynamics of the 2008 console market back.

The faster yall move on the acceptance stage the happier we'll all be.

— Mat Piscatella (@MatPiscatella) February 27, 2024

The mobile/tablet kids have grown up, and what they want is now mainstream.

Sorry to 33 year old Podcaster Rob, who fell in love with Modern Wafare or a Halo or whatever at 16 or thereabouts and wanted to hold on to that feeling forever.

Might want to shave, Rob. Got some gray.

— Mat Piscatella (@MatPiscatella) February 27, 2024

Seems to me like we have two main issues that need addressing. Console makes like Sony and Xbox releasing their games increasingly multiplatform is only a stopgap measure, the core issues are the ever increasing budgets and their issues marketing core gaming experiences to those now grown up gen z-ers who grew up on mobile/tablet and still mostly play mobile games instead of core games.

They need to jumpstart growth again and get those budgets in check (like the movie industry has largely done).