| G2ThaUNiT said: Maturing is realizing that the kinds of games folks like us play are the minority in the gaming industry now. It's so true about the generational comment. My niece and nephew only play Roblox and Minecraft on their tablets, their dads laptop and Xbox, and their phones. They go wherever the games they want to play are available. |
I think a lot of the older generation of gamers really struggle mentally with the idea that the younger generation of gamers don't really give a fuck about exclusives or closed ecosystems. Our generation grew up on console wars and exclusives being everything, there were also far fewer games releasing on a weekly basis and no blackhole games so exclusives were really put on a pedestal. But we're a dying breed, literally and figuratively, and as we grow up, have families, children, etc. It's those younger gamers who will take us over.
This young generation has grown up with mobile devices with access to their content wherever and whenever they want it, they grew up with blackhole games sucking all their time out, Roblox has over 30m CCU and that is just one example. They grew up with a marketplace which put a focus on things being accessed on whatever device they're using, the blackhole games are available everywhere, things like Netflix are available everywhere, their games are perfectly playable on mobile too. There's also hundreds of videogames releasing every week now, it's overwhelming.
If they can't have access to *insert random exclusive* do they care? Not really, they have access to their blackhole videogames like Roblox, Fortnite, Minecraft, etc. They have access to TikTok which is absolutely a competitor to videogames now due to how much time it sucks out of peoples lives, I have nieces who endlessly scroll that shit instead of playing their Xbox, Lol. They have access to the literally hundreds of videogames releasing on a weekly basis, they aren't running short of videogames to play.
Blackhole videogames and changing consumer mindset is a major problem for content locked to a single device.
With my nieces and nephews, I have 7 and if I broke it down, only 2 of them actually play on console, but they literally only play Fortnite, Roblox and Minecraft, I don't even think they've ever heard of most exclusives, Lol. I have a 3rd who has an Xbox with Roblox, but the Xbox collects dust, they literally never play it, they prefer to play Roblox on their mobile/tablet. The rest AFAIK don't care about consoles at all, they just play their games on their mobile and/or watch TikTok/YouTube, Lol. So 2/7 only bother with consoles and only use them to play blackhole videogames, I've even told them about Game Pass and they have zero interest, Lol.
