By using this site, you agree to our Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use. Close
Soundwave on 17 December 2025
Edit Thread
Blood_Tears said:
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. 

Yup, Nvidia just announced they're going to cut consumer GPU production by 30%-40%. They won't say the quiet part aloud but saving those components for use on AI servers is likely far more profitable for them than consumer gamers. They don't really give a shit about gaming, AMD is chasing the same thing too. 

The younger gen that game on PC aren't generally buying the latest/greatest, another worrying sign I saw was most people on PC don't even buy new games. They continue to just keep playing old games and time sink stuff like Fortnite or Roblox. 

I said it in the other thread too but I think we are definitely in a recession, it's just not being labelled as such. For rich people they are doing fine because AI is keeping the stock market high, but for "average joe middle class" ... those people are really starting to hurt and below that it's even worse. It's becoming a two tier economy for sure where you have rich people and then everyone else is struggling to make their month to month bills. 

For Nintendo it probably would have been more ideal had they been able to launch earlier, I think they launched right into an effective recession. Can't control that stuff but it's unfortunate timing. They need to have some very strong software for next year, like Smash Bros and a new Mario.