It's over. The premium AAA video games are already dead.
The future will be mostly only mobileslop and indieslop because funding high end AAA games utilizing the newest tech just is not worth it anymore to the investors.
AAA gaming is dead
post your face when finally the AAA industry crumbles
An AAA game is the best selling game of the year retard. This article is dumb.
Maybe it's over for western AAA gaming.
new normal
freemasonic bullshit as usual
god, meteor, now.
The $350m, five-to-seven-year development cycle is no longer seen as viable beyond a handful of exceptions (see: GTA 6)
GTA 6 is gonna take like 7 years to make, engangement farming, lying about Rockstar again, glazing indies like always
and publishers' doomed pivots to live service punts has only exacerbated the financial troubles
Skill issue. Nintendo did just fine making real games and selling them without doing all the greedy shit other companies are doing. All those retarded companies have to do is move away from the most expensive countries in the world. No company should be in California lol.
The only thing that died is journalism and that's a good thing
I haven't bought a new game since 2009
Video games died a lot sooner than 2025 unless you're a retarded fucking zoomer.
Hope you aren't expecting a handclap or some how thinking this is a statement.
Their obsession with everything resting on gta 6's shoulder is beyond pathetic and worrying at this point, like what does the rest of the industry has to do if rockstar does a gallilion dollars in profit.
IT'S OFFICIAL
COMPUTER GAMES ARE DEAD
A game gets delayed
IT'S OVER THE INDUSTRY WILL NEVER RECOVER FROM THIS
Calm your tits, it's not the end.
funding high end AAA games utilizing the newest tech
Games are partially a creative endeavour, you can't replace creativity and originality with fancy graphics, once the investor money dries up and medium budget games flourish the games will be better.
Out of the top 20 highest selling games of the year so far 2 are Japanese.
But yeah, western gaming is dying and Japanese gaming is winning... Right?
If GTA6 fails, it means they couldn't raise the price to 100$
fucking good. All good games from 2007 and before were made without the shit opinions from investors and their wants. I rather eat indieslop for the rest of my life than having to live again the last 13 years of AAA games.
People would prefer low effort mobile slop unfortunately, there are a lot of complaints directed at "ugly females" but zero towards anime waifus locked behind gambling machines.
AAA games are great; they are optimized, fair, and cheap in comparison to anime mobile games that people shill here.
but zero towards anime waifus locked behind gambling machines.
Are you shitting me? I read criticism towards gacha games fucking everywhere. Only coomers accept the current state of the mobile market.
Omg, I can't believe it. I will have the do with the other 6 AAA games (not to mention of the thousands of smaller titles) released this year alone.
mashallah
the AAA industry deserved to die years ago
Funny, because this really only affected consoles, and even then only in america.
gaming is DEAD
i can't even keep up with all the game shows/trailers that are coming out in the past year
What do articles like this (and Anon Babble) hope to gain by lying like this ?
GTA 6 will most likely be the last AAA game as we know them. Rockstar will never make another game. Bethesda will release one more TES and that will be it. Maybe there'll be more remasters and that's all we're gonna get from these bloated developers.
eurogamer
LMAO I remember when they were credible like 20 years ago. What went wrong?
No one cares about Zniggys Adventure, bong.
Rockstar probably had a slew of consultants all tear in to how phobic and bigoted GTA6 content is which led to the delay. They're having to take swatches of it back to the conference room to fix.
Journalists: clicks
Retards here: some internetz medal
I skimmed the article, it's even worse, just a guy crying because people with no interest in games (journalists, companies and investors) can't understand why people don't like what they make anymore.
This is what your average chud brain functions like: it actually thinks that the biggest problems in any major company or corporations are gays, blacks and trannies
Two more weeks
Mario Kart and MH will be the best sellers of 2025.
AAA is extreme garbage. It started a significant decline over a decade ago and has made absolutely no attempt whatsoever to address the dwindling quality since, in fact it has only continued to make decisions which result in worse and worse games over time.
The "newest tech" is also nigh-on synonymous with UE5 nowadays as well, which is an abomination that should have been aborted before it ever had a chance to inflict itself upon any actual video game.
gamers must suffer to line the pockets of billionaires further
Oblivion remaster will outsell them
Oi anon, you telling me you never played Cedric's Ham and Cheese Adventure on the ZX Speccy?
Good.
"The entire medium of video games is dead"
Breaking: Lefty gamesjourno declares games industry dead over the delay of vehicular negroslaughter 2025
Intersting times
this post was fact checked and deemed false, the price is increasing everywhere, so it's not a result of tariffs
Doubtful. Rockstar puts fat horse balls and huge nigress asses in their games. They put in a scene where Trevor kills a former main character, and multitudes of instances of blatant racism. They literally laughed at a protest group's demands to tear their whole company down because they "accidentally" put fully-clothed sex into SA. Being offensive and bigoted is literally the entire point of these games. Without that bite, there is no satire.
american console
still hit with tariffs
How the fuck is gaming "dead" because of GTA 6 being delayed? GTA 6 probably won't even outsell GTA 5.
Are you niggers retarded? The best selling game of the year is an AAA game. A remastered AAA game is now Steams best selling game for 2 weeks in a row. Doom drops next week. Mario Kart and Death Stranding in June. Donkey Kong in July. MGS 3 Remake in August. Marathon and Borderlands in September. A new CoD later this year and Metroid Prime 4 too. You guys are just plain dumb.
(((american))) console
manufactured anywhere but America by American Whites
AAA games
go play Elona faggets
saw an article about it today, fun how i predicted it
GTAV2 delayed until 2026
pc port in 27 or 28
on sale for $60 in 29
its just clickbait AI generated slop
you have to get smarter about these things
there is no "games journalists" out there with opinions that matter
I admire that anon.
Isn't it more expensive in Europe? lol
Strange. I keep playing Japanese and Eurogames just fine.
the article is chatgpt written. they praise capcom as doing something right.
Gaming died over a decade ago, when "moderates" failed to fight back against the ideological subversion of their hobby.
support.xbox.com
They're raising the prices everywhere. lol
Capcom and their success prove this article wrong actually.
fire competent people and replace with vagen and "right" skin color
whole thing burns to the ground
shocked kekachu face
Remember when you were called incels and "toxic gamers" and whatnot for pointing out obvious shit? Pepperidge farm remembers. Just remember to not laugh too hard because you will have to laugh later even harder when GTA6 isn't the blockbuster it needs to be to save the failing western games industry.
Gamepass tax
chuddha keeps winning
Based based based
GTA 6 will sell extremely well, but it'll never outsell GTA 5. Also, most of the people still playing GTA 5, don't give a shit about the singe player or story.
New games should not take 10 years to make and cost billions of dollars.
Imagine how woke GTA6 was for them to need a another whole year just to get rid of it ?
Yes they still release goyslop, but no more video games
yes raising it everywhere to make non-us citizens pay for the trump price hike too. if they didn't raise it everywhere it would be going up by 3 or 400 within the us
Wishful thinking. It won't die till you losers stop buying AAA trasn and remakeslop
low effort mobile slop
Big mobile titles literally eclipse modern AAA western releases in terms of fun factor though. Continue coping with the gambling excuse if it makes you feel any better, meanwhile the western "games" industry will continue to implode under the weight of its own incompetence and irrelevance.
there are a lot of complaints directed at "ugly females" but zero towards anime waifus locked behind gambling
Clockwork. Western games devs should continue to create "ugly females" and see the industry continue cratering. At one point one should step back and ask themselves
am i out of fucking touch with the modern audience? i keep regurgitating these uptoot circlejerk talking points about incels but the money isn't coming in, meanwhile the great Satan chYna is raking in cash like mad, am i out of fucking touch?
Naaaah, you're not out touch, just keep making the same shit over and over and over again, please, do continue digging deeper, make sure to include more leftist talking points in your "entertainment" too, the modern audience absolutely loves that!
You should have gotten more people to sign up for Gamepass, now Microsoft is going to give their players a "Gamepass tax".
Uhhh... He fails to mention DEI is what's killing media. Why?
Videogames becoming niche again
Thank fucking goodness, hopefully no more Normalfag "Iam a Gamer!" shit in my hobby in the next 3 years
muh DEI
I did nothing.
they are delusional if they think what people will pay for a new GTA is in any way comparable with what people will pay for a new <random slop> title. CoD and FIFA could probably get away with it but AAA games are already failing at $80
gachanigger frothing at the mouth
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GTA6 looks bad to me so I hope it bombs. That would be great.
say what killed gaming
NO NOT THAT
no it won't
NTA but lol, it was a scapegoat. A crisis of mismanagement, mediocrity and corporate greed is what killed AAA gaming, the conflict around DEI was engineered against both sides to keep the sheep fighting each other instead of their corporate masters.
Pretty much the same key employees have been working at Bethesda for 20+ years. There is only so much you can blame on outsourcing and diversity hiring when even the white American gen X men who have decades of industry experience have somehow become so incompetent at their jobs that millennial women and Indians aren't even a downgrade from them.
the conflict around DEI was engineered against both sides to keep the sheep fighting each other instead of their corporate masters
now shut up and accept that you lost the culture war that, by the way, doesn't exist and is only a chud talking point
the touch input fucking sucks
yeah man I can't keep up with all these great games coming out lmfao you lying faggot hahahaha fuck you
There's no winning or losing the culture war, as you say it's not a real conflict. There's just loads and loads of money.
hey guys maybe both sides are wrong
except me because I'm above it
lmao fuck off
Cope fagot, it's not my fault you have a shit PC and only play boomerslop. There's been like 200 trailers for new games this year alone
i am an ignorant fuck therefore what this guy is saying can't be true !
There's no winning or losing the culture war
except you, because you lost, chud
I'm the victim in this mess.
Post YFW only play games from glorious nippon
Wow they made safe edgy libtroon jokes 20 years ago, i guess that means their new game can't be pozzed.
Why? Still not inclusive enough for you, even after they removed all mentions of "males" and "females" so your nth-dimensional astrogender won't get offended?
Frat boy culture? Its a crime simulator pretty much its audience has always been the frat boy culture.
No, the biggest problems are constantly fucking changing requirements and this is universal for any development of any piece of software, you spend your time not playing vidya and actually doing your job for them faggots, and then comes the PM saying that you need to change everything you did because faggots dont want it like that anymore. The decision to delay and rework shit this late into dev cycle of any product can only cone from c level or someone close to them because they’re financially liable for this shit(even in my shitty company where 3 months project might as well be considered eternal you need a special permission from higher management to have a 1 week delay). And there are exactly 2 types of people c level (((people))) listen to: investors and wokevestors.
Good.
A purge of the industry.
You niggas all forget that the big names all came out of the fires of the last crash.
This will bring in innovation, ressourcefullness and customer adhering markets.
Big win for us consumers.
No because these people keep making shitty games and all anyone can think of is trannies or whatever the hot topic is
...-2025
What a fucking generosity, been stiking corpse for past 13 years.
This is click bait but it should be true
Pic rel
these people keep making shitty games and all anyone can think of is trannies
It's almost like that's who "these people" are or something...
In any major company
Not any, but definitively for Rockstar.
safe edgy
Just because you grew up on Anon Babble watching rekt videos (doubt you even know what a shock site is) doesn't mean R* wasn't genuinely edgy
Consumers
Not the victims
Normies have to form opinions in spite of mass market manipulation and individual bot shilling
lol
lmao
If you thought GTA V was edgy, you just outed yourself as a redditor nigger
Guys, it's not fair making fun of British. It's not like they only had games about eggs. They also had games about Lotus cars.
they make shitty games because they waste resources on DEI initiatives that used to go towards actually making a game good
So since all you fags are contrarians does this mean you have to start liking video games and supporting them? Or are you gonna keep doing the forced hate for them despite spending all your time posting in a place about them?
>Consumers
>Not the victims
No, they are. They're the victims of a lack of choice in the market thanks to a successful ideological subversion campaign over a decade ago.
Interesting opinion. Now look at mine:
when faggotry stops being hidden it negatively impacts game production, so if we want good games again, we should force faggots to stay in the closet
That's good.
"Consoles would get cheaper as generations went on, not more expensive. "
Nigga what. Other then a few blips console prices have been rising.
voronoiapp.com
You are genuinely fucking retarded for arguing like this. Honk elsewhere, clown.
there is no "games journalists" out there with opinions that matter
There never was either
They're talking about how consoles used to get discounts WITHIN their generations, dumbass. Thanks for ruining another thing for everyone, Switch!
That's not what the article said and if it does say that then I refuse to acknowledge it.
i don't even play videogames anymore
The image inset after that quote makes it very clear that consoles lowering in price in their own generation is what they meant. Just admit that you tardsperged over a statement you misunderstood (or refused to read further for clarification on out of tardrage).
Are you fucking stupid or something?
not dead. gommaged. they can come back if leadership remembers how to make a fucking game.
Finally now you basement dwelling retards can actually go outside and talk to women IN REAL LIFE instead of gooning to your pedo tranime genshin shit. Who knows, maybe you'll even acquire a wife in the process!
why would anyone want that?
this isn't Anon Babble, fag.
Exactly. They were always just glorified PR mouthpieces or clout-chasing bloggers. The only reason anyone even pretended their opinions mattered was because publishers needed a hype machine. Now that streamers and YouTubers fill that role better, "games journalism" is just flailing around trying to stay relevant.
it's over for the regime's version of western AAA, yes
the programming failed and there isnt enough money to keep it going
AAA industry is losing zoomers and gen alpha to games like Roblox and Fortnite that act as virtual third places.
they will never stop making fifa / madden slot machine slop. It really is a shame
I cannot for the life of me understand caring about GTA.
wtf video games existed in 1958? I thought they didn't get invented until the 80s?
Tennis For Two :^)
How many of those are real sales and how many are Chinese sales?
and almost all of them are dogshit
there are still good games being released, but don't expect a game to be good if its advertising budget rivals the actual development budget
Yeah it's not like Nintendo is the one spearheading the rise of game prices or anything.
Video games basically didn't really count as video games until the NES.
you can't replace creativity and originality with fancy graphics
They won't stop trying though
It's insidious because with Nintendo it is completely needless, I refuse to believe Mario Kart World had even a third of GTA VIs budget
without doing all the greedy shit other companies are doing
You're right there because they're blazing their own greedy shit trail charging more for hardware and games enabling everyone else to follow in their stead. There is no competition between AAA publishers and devs when they all know they can just gouge you instead of undercut one another.
When DEI is gone surely they will make good games again. Not. The problems are endemic of the western industry, it's not a matter of well the resources are being misused, it's a matter of everything is mismanaged on these projects.
Well, there are less things to consider.
Budget graphics, barely no voice acting, translations and text has to be done just for menus and shit etc.
In reality all the budget would go to software dev, optimization (nintendo titles are known to be very well optimized, outside of a few bad examples), level design, audio and gameplay.
I'd say at minimum 50 mil.
thank you feminists. Couldn't have done it without you.
To continue your lineage and make your parents and grandparents happy. You're not still a virgin at 30, right anon? Surely you had atleast SOME experience with socializing with women during your teens and twenties, right anon? ........Right?
Temporarily embarrassed normie.
muh slop isn't selling so gaming is dead
Haha, failures love to make excuses. Meanwhile the studios I like are pulling in mountains of cash. The cope is unreal.
last year an AAA western non remaster was good was doom eternal
everything since then is dogshit gaming in generals been dead since 2012 when the mtx and woke apocalypse started
i remember the faggot in me3 and i was like lol wut
There were actually four gaming crashes when you think about it
In 1983 shitty consoles saturated home markets and the Atari 2600 was used as a scapegoat
In 1993 everything reached a peak with rapidly evolving hardware before experiencing a harsh devaluation that affected East and West
In 2009 mobile gaming took off which almost immediately killed the dedicated handheld market and dumbed down everything forever
And people ignore this... The double whammy of Cloud / VR gaming around 2016 was a gigantic money pit that still doesn't even make up 1% of total market share.
Anyways here's a random article that isn't by a soulless journo. If you don't think we're in another gaming crash right now you are basically ignoring reality lol.
Anon can only breed and fuck to cope with the fact that his poor ass still rents an apartment, has no assets and no wealth to speak of. I laff
Anon Babble's face when the AAA industry implodes and all that happens is that the cycle of growth resumes all over again (black people and trannies are still in them btw)
Hate DD2 all you want but it was one of the best selling games last year.
uhhh people aren't playing videogames... because they're watching TIkTok!
What a retarded ass clown take
Yeah fuck this piece of shit faggot
Is it really a crash isolated to just gaming when nearly every kind of media is experiencing the same fate?
It can no longer be ignored, how obvious the trend of buyers remorse overlaps with controlled opposition.
The thing is, people are playing. Tons of them, biggest entertainment industry on the planet. They just aren't playing the "correct" games. Which is killing the companies that are owned by the people they favor. It's hilarious. Laugh at them.
You really need to take a break from Anon Babble and all the woke slop from youtube. At least 4 days worth.
people have lower attention spans and are committing less to long form entertainment, which games have generally been in the past
doesn't seem that crazy tbf
live service round-based pvp shooters are huge right now, you can just play a round and then stop
people sneer at extraction shooters, a genre that asks for time commitment
singleplayer games have been viewed as "dying" for over a decade
the indie games that keep blowing up are cheap, round-based gimmick concepts that your friend group will drop in maybe two weeks
Legit question. Was the Xbox ever worth buying this gen?
Aside from gamepass, which isn't console exclusive, there's been no mention of Microsoft at all.
Total Japan sweep afaik with consoles.
Good. Hopefully when a new AAA rises years from now, it won't commit the mistakes of the first. It won't go public, it won't become greedy, it won't betray its customers, and it won't destroy itself out of spite and sheer retardation.
Up until recently, You could buy a series S for $300 and pay for gamepass monthly/annually. If you had no other options or enough to build a PC, buy a PS5 pro or whatever then it's a pretty good deal considering that it could play recent games with a consistent frame rate.
Trannie psx style retro indie devs , this is our moment, lets save gaming
man i don't give a fuck, i'll be dead long before i finish going through every good game there is
That makes sense, thanks.
I've been pretty much PC+tendie since 2009, and my brother is a dedicated snoy enjoyer so I have no idea what's going on in MS's 90% of the time.
Good. Video Games should be funded by philanthropy only.
Here's a better question, was there a single console worth buying for the last 2-3 gens?
They're basically a 3rd party publisher now with hardware they sell on the side. From the outset it seems like a really baffling direction to take the company but it seems to be working out for them since the games they publish end up selling really well on PC and Playstation despite also being on gamepass.
Im literally going to buy an AAA games in the future
Goddamn I hate zoomers
an AAA games
You should learn some English in the future too.
western AAA deserved it
death to mutterica
Good riddance
Yes, it's over for the current version of AAA. The new era will be led by Nintendo's and Microsoft's gameplay-focused nature and big teams being split into smaller teams to work on more than one project with significantly less budget.
Yeah let's gooooo!!
Indie gaming is the only way and the only thing worthwhile
How can it be dead if the best RPG to date was just released?
The only console worth getting this gen was a Nintendo Switch. The first-party Xbox handheld in 2027 may bring me back.