SvennoJ said:
Yeah, in fact this is how we play now (Friend of my youngest came over to play, early gen Alpha at play) |
On the one hand, it breaks my soul to see kids playing such a horrible game. On the other hand, I know that a large portion of Gen Alpha will never have serious discretionary income due to a number of factors. Rent and cost of living is rising so fast, while jobs are disappearing. In the USA lots of Gen Alpha kids, simply won't be employable, because they didn't develop properly. So many people these days don't understand what a necessary bill is. People are not only taught to overspend, but taught that said overspending is "needed". Instead of buying a cheap four-door car, they sign up for an expensive SUV at 9% interest. Instead of having a 5GB cell phone plan, they have an unlimited plan. Instead of paying attention to their actual health, they sign up for the most expensive variant of health insurance, which they ironically need because they are obese. Instead of just buying a two-bedroom house, they buy a three-bedroom house, with a finished basement and a three-car garage. This type of learned overspending fuels global warming far more than any simple videogame discs. It also has the effect of making people live paycheck to paycheck. And so they don't have money for new games for their kids. So a lot of kids just gravitate to what's free. And then that free game takes over in elementary schools and becomes so popular that even kids whose parents are responsible want to play it.
And that leads to you having to juryrig two TVs and systems together to do what an N64 did easily 29 years ago.
And I think MS is way too overconfident that Gen Alpha will somehow take over gaming in the next decade, while making traditional games obsolete. People can quote the growth of Gen Alpha and a bunch of other stuff all they want. But there are "Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics."
