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[bumpkin]

People who keep doom-casting and trying to manifest this crash… why do you want a crash to begin with?

The layoffs are bullshit, good people losing their jobs solely due to greed, and you want everyone to lose them too?

 

[mopspear]

Seriously do people actually know what the crash of the 80s was or do they just like to throw that buzzword around because they read the internet crying all day and think noise = crash.

It might even be a defined economic concept as well! (I didn't look it up but no one else did! HA!)

 

[Sooner]

Aren't we officially in the second video game crash already? When will we call it that? What does still need to happen to earn the title?

I'm not trolling, serious questions.

Good freaking grief. Is PlayStation, Nintendo or Steam in ANY discussion about going out of business? No.

Go touch grass and get in touch with reality.

 

[LiquidMetal14]

Have any people here been through any "crash" or hardship? This ain't it at this time.

 

[Sooner]

If Microsoft bows out on Xbox.

It wasn't a crash when Sega failed. It won't be when Xbox fails.

 

[RoboFu]

not a total crash but a "traditional" gaming crash is what you guys really mean.

 

[Boss Mog]

If the PS6 sells poorly.

 

[TheLikou]

When Sony buries millions of unsold copies of Intergalactic in the Nevada desert or something.

Ah, so that's why they are killing physical games.

 

[Hollywood Hitman]

Lol, not even close... It's called trimming the fat every industry does this, it's how corporate life is and why I choose to get my hands dirty and won't work in that field.

Reminds me of the ones that think every big storm or rain storm, or hurricane or tornado is some ominous thing... It's all nothing new. Life repeats itself endlessly.
Gamers are so sensitive to this stuff and the theatrics and drama, these people will all be fine... Every end is a new beginning. Sure if our favorite studio falls apart it sucks but we will continue to game and get great games.. Thats the honest truth. Were in a little release lull but once the new stuff starts dropping again we will be back rocking.

I absolutely have enough that could last me the rest of my life to play, gaming is fine but sure when they make shitty and mid games it's time to clean out

 

[Branded]

 

[Deerock71]

Not yet, bro. Let them get even worse, and they will. The next generations, with all their restrictions, are going to destroy them.

Either that, or they're already lost.

 

[Artistic]

It wasn't a crash when Sega failed. It won't be when Xbox fails.

Good luck.

 

[LordOcidax]

Probably when revenues YoY drop.

Yes, by the next fiscal report. Next month…

 

[CentralScrutinizer]

People who keep doom-casting and trying to manifest this crash… why do you want a crash to begin with?

The layoffs are bullshit, good people losing their jobs solely due to greed, and you want everyone to lose them too?

Because GAAS is buuuuuuulllllshit.

I don't want an industry crash. I want a gaas crash.

 

[apple_of_enlightenment]

I'm not trolling, serious questions.

Legit question.

Even though the market cap is huge today, when the crash happened in the 80s it wasn't entirely about money -- well it was for Atari, but there were a lot of small studios surviving. And the arcades were thriving.

However, it's is again a Western gaming slow crash going on right now. Nintendo and allied studios are doing extremely well.

GTA6 will either save the day for Games West or will be the final insult.

 

[mckmas8808]

Aren't we officially in the second video game crash already? When will we call it that? What does still need to happen to earn the title?

I'm not trolling, serious questions.

When revenues drop and there's no more profit happening. I know yall hate the truth, but if Playstation is having record profits and Nintendo is killing it and Steam is gaining more and more players, how can anybody call it a Video game crash?

 

[StereoVsn]

Probably when revenues YoY drop.

Yeah, if we see gaming revenues drop by say 20-25% year over year then we can talk about crashes.

 

[NovaSe7en]

When the biggest companies start hemorrhaging money. The crash of '83 saw a revenue drop of 97%.

Current state of the industry is nothing like that. It's grown massively.

 

[Ironman_Bad]

Probably not when the highest selling videogame of all time is 4 months away

 

[Seyken]

What you're seeing is the crash of western AAA studios, not gaming as a whole.

Gaming itself has never been more popular.