| HyrulianScrolls said: Just depressing that we hit a 30 year low here. I think we’re finally starting to see the real effects of the way Gen alpha (and younger Gen Z) have basically abandoned console gaming for pc gaming. I’m genuinely worried for the survival of console gaming in 15 years or so. Which as a life long console gamer who vastly prefers it to pc gaming for a whole host of reasons, sucks hard to think about. With all of that said though, I do think Nintendo was perfectly poised to have a massive holiday with S2 if they had tried whatsoever on the software end. It’s absolutely absurd to me they expected a Hyrule Warriors and Kirby Air Riders game to be the exclusives that would sell their new hardware for its first holiday season. That should’ve been their first party exclusives holiday lineup last year for Switch 1 on its death bed, not for their shiny new successor. |
PC content spending is down as well per the report. With the economy issues and crazy spiked RAM prices which are only going to get worse people aren't buying PC's either. If consumers can't afford a discounted console then they surely can't afford a new gaming PC. The current console and PC crowd is buying software sure but they aren't leaving console gaming to PC either. The majority can't afford at the moment to switch eco-systems which is why a good portion has even stayed on PS4 and Xbox one at the moment.
