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It's worse today than it's ever been. We've reached peak content, people are still playing games from the playstation 1. On hackernews, there was a post about s
by stuckinhell 3y ago
It's worse today than it's ever been.
We've reached peak content, people are still playing games from the playstation 1. On hackernews, there was a post about someone translating old japanese playstation 1 or 2 games.
You are starting to see diminishing returns on even the big AAA games. Sony, Epic, etc are starting layoffs.
You are also seeing new trends with Zoomers, where they don't 'play' games but have some sort of weird "meta"/"metaverse" around a game like Five Nights at Freddys.
- thfuran 3y ago>people are still playing games from the playstation 1 And people are seven feet tall. But nearly all people are outside both of those groups.
- stuckinhell 3y agoNot as much as you'd think. New fantasy writers often say they have to compete against Lord of Rings. Classics are still are demand and have social proof.
- thfuran 3y agoLord of the Rings isn't a PS1 game. A lot more people are reading old books than are playing PS1 games. I'd assume most people still playing PS1 games now are using emulators, but for a sense of scale: Something like fifty million more copies of Lord of the Rings have been printed than PlayStations made.
- norwalkbear 3y agoHuh emulators are in HUGE demand especially as PC gaming and mobile became dominant over consoles.
- stuckinhell 3y agoEmulators have hundreds of millions of views on youtube as a rough benchmark. There is a huge huge amount of interest in the "classics" across a wide amount of multimedia.