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Ryuu96 on 01 May 2025
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G2ThaUNiT said:
Ryuu96 said:

It's bigger than ever but it has also stagnated/declined from COVID and in a capitalist world, stagnation is not acceptable, decline definitely isn't acceptable either, so while gaming is "bigger" than say 2013, it has stagnated so investors are less inclined to invest into a market which isn't growing, plus a huge chunk of people are playing the same blackhole games.

In this world, endless growth is the only thing which is acceptable.

“Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.”

Yeah I guess I mean more the gaming industry that I knew is imploding in favor of this:

This is all my nieces and nephews, Lol. Combined with what Alanah said about TikTok.

My nieces and nephews all have Xbox, Switch, etc. But spend like 60% of their time scrolling on TikTok for hours (I hate TikTok, Lmao), but it is obviously extremely addictive, of course that massively hurts the videogame industry, back in my day I didn't have something like TikTok so instead spent hours playing different videogames but it's absolutely correct that TikTok is just as much competition to videogames today than videogames are to each other, along with Netflix and stuff.

Then when they finally get their heads out of TikTok, what do they play? The blackhole games, Lmao. They wouldn't know half the games I play, they largely spend most of their time in Fortnite or Minecraft. This is the challenge the industry has nowadays, I mean, people like me and you, of course we play a variety of videogames but we're a dying breed and the new generation is more interested in their mobile phones, TikTok and if they are into console hardware a lot of them are still only playing 1-2 videogames a year, which tend to be the blackhole games.

My niece even prefers to play Roblox on their phone than their Xbox.