Former PlayStation boss says games are "seeing a collapse in creativity" as publishers spend more time asking "what's your monetization scheme?"
Former PlayStation boss says games are "seeing a collapse in creativity" as publishers spend more time asking "what's your monetization scheme?"
Shawn Layden thinks publishers should spent a little less time chasing Fortnite
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God I hope the gaming industry collapses just like in 1982. We have more than enough retro and indie games to get by until a new business model arises
It won't collapse in the same way because, like you said, we have tons of indies and they have easy access to publishing now. Hopefully the AAA space collapses though. It looks like it's going that direction. They've forgotten why they exist.
I’m curious if it would expand past games to tech. So many businesses aim for AI to take most of their programming role and fire their staff. Assuming that fails in some hilarious public ways over the next five years, I’m wondering what the old guard that knew the technologies well will do.
It won't happen in tech outside gaming because tech outside gaming moves a lot slower so the collapse will happen to the front before the rear even thinks about adopting stupid changes like that.
"Bye Felicia!"
Unfortunately that may well make them double down on the F2P mobile market.
They're cheaper to make, and success tends to be tied directly to marketing efforts and exploitation.
The harder the enshit, the harder the fall
Also, machiens capable of gaming are ubiquitous. Say the console market collapses because people recognize that Playstation and Xbox offer less entertainment per dollar than lighting $20 bills on fire. PCs, phones, tablets, maybe even smart televisions are everywhere. It's not like the early 80's when having a computer in your house is a new idea people were still figuring out.
It would be fun watching some of the bigger studios fart themselves to death though. I don't know if we need Ubisoft, EA or Activision anymore.
Each of those studios, UbiSoft, EA, and Activision, all forcing their employees back into the office. Car accidents up, environmental health down.
Fuck them.