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The year is 2040. Gigaconglomerates Tencent, Activision Blizzard Ubisoft (ABU), Microsoft and Apple gatekeep the entire gaming industry. Rebel guerilla groups
by gregjw 6y ago
The year is 2040.
Gigaconglomerates Tencent, Activision Blizzard Ubisoft (ABU), Microsoft and Apple gatekeep the entire gaming industry.
Rebel guerilla groups of small publishers and indie developers rise up to take control of their encampments.
- rndgermandude 6y ago2040 huh? I'd have guessed Tencent (incl subsidies Facebook, Oracle, Microsoft, in order of acquisition) and Alphabet Activision share the market 75%/25%, with Apple still commanding a 30% sales tax in certain spaces.
- throw_m239339 6y agoI mean this is the future described in Cyberpunk novels. United States of Coca Cola, Republic of Microsoft. Mega Corporations will replace states in an era of neocorporatism (AKA something else...), that's inevitable.
- FridgeSeal 6y agoEvery day we draw closer to the world described in Snowcrash and Neuromancer. Once we have cheap, ubiquitous VR, all we're missing is Kouriers, skateboards with those cool wheels and a cult based on a dead language.
- redisman 6y agoI'm sure Disney will be there too. After they acquired Star Wars it's been a looming presence ready to swallow and regurgitate forever any entertainment properties.
- mywittyname 6y agoNinDisney will be a thing. I'm astonished Disney hasn't yet acquired Nintendo.
- manquer 6y agoI am not sure Nintendo would be up for sale to Disney. They have pretty unique culture in the industry. Sony Entertainment would be the better fit, however after buying Fox properties it may be difficult to sell the merger of another major studio into Disney.
- CivBase 6y agoI think you severely underestimate the piles of money Nintendo is sitting on if you don't think they'll make it to 2040. Sony is also big enough, diverse enough, and well-established enough that I doubt they would have trouble weathering one or two bad console generations back-to-back. And let's not forget 2K, 505 Games, Chucklefish, Bandai Namco, Capcom, Deep Silver, Devolver Digital, EA, Epic Games, Focus Home, Gearbox, Koei Tecmo, Paradox, Sega, Stardock, Square Enix, Take-Two, Team17, THQ Nordic, Valve, Warner Bros, and hundreds of other publishers that I can't even begin to list here. 2040 is definitely too soon for the dystopian future you're talking about. Maybe 2042.
- GreenWatermelon 6y agoAnd a shit ton of smaller studios and indie devs
- gregjw 6y agoTotally agree. I mean, it was a joke and wasn't really evaluating any company, but yeah, agreed.
- madeofpalk 6y agoWhere's Sony/Playstation in this?