Gen Z Is Cutting Back On Video Game Purchases
Young zoomers just can't afford video games anymore. According to the Wall Street Journal, Gen Z is spending far less on gaming.
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As a millennial, the games today are mostly shit. I’m currently playing Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 and it’s amazing. I had a blast with DK Bananza as well. Deltarune was nice too. But before that? AstroBot. And before that? I don’t know. Usually I play a demo of a game, if that’s not available I pirate it and play for half an hour or so. If I like it, I buy it. If I don’t like it, I won’t buy it and won’t play any further. And on top of that, a lot of games released today are just remakes of games that themselves released on PS3/Xbox360/PC. I mean "The Last of us remastered"??? That game was released on PS4, so I can just pop it in my PS5 and play it. But now the devs want me to pay $70 to have it a tiny bit better looking?
"Lost Soul Aside" will release later this month. I remember years ago when I first heard of this game, made by a single person (who now got a team of developers from Sony). And I will definitely get that. No demo required.
The games today are not mostly shit. There's so much great stuff that comes out every year that it's difficult to keep up with it all. It's just not usually the stuff that gets the most marketing. As a bonus, the best games of the year rarely ask for that $70 price point. What are you looking for?
As a person who doesn't care about graphics: New games are mostly shit. I'm allowed to do less (need animation for each action you know?), I must have fewer monsters on the screen (polygon count you know?) takes 35+ GB and it makes my laptop fans go wrooom?
New games are not exclusively pushing high end graphics. In fact, they're dwarfed by those that are not. My favorite game from last year was The Rise of the Golden Idol. It's mostly still images and takes up less than 3 GB. Balatro was a game of the year nominee from last year, and it's only a handful of MBs. Blue Prince is hardly a looker, but it will likely be on a lot of game of the year lists this year. There's so much out there.
Back then we had 10x games coming out, 1x games were good. Now we have 10000x games coming out but still 1x of the games are good. (Absolutately more good games, relatively almost nothing)
Numbers are generated knowledge assisted-out of my ass. (Think fermi approximation.)
What good games did come out this year, that’s
• not stated in my comment
• not a remake/remaster
If you want a medival semi-sim with amazing Monty-pythonesque writing, check Kingdom Come Deliverance 2.
I'm honestly split between it and 33 for my GOTY, they're so different but both so amazing.
Playing it now, while it does have its comedic moments, it feels like a huge misrepresentation to call it Monty Python-esque.
What a crazy statement. My bottle neck is time not lack of games - there are just too many incredible games there!
I feel like the big name titles are all headed in a similar direction (realism, large open world, story-driven), because they need to differentiate themselves from the indie titles that cover the other bases for cheaper.
So, if that direction isn't your jam, I can certainly see that you'd feel that way, because you need to inform yourself more actively to learn about those indies.