Sources to the claim or it is a pointless debate

Game studios have prioritized pushing a political agenda (Woke) over making a fun game. it's very difficult to find a new good game to play.

It was Generation X that has been buying all the games for decades and a new PC every 12 months to keep playing the latest thing.
They stopped caring after divorce #2 or 3.

Originally posted by AdahnGorion:

Sources to the claim or it is a pointless debate

He never posts them.

A mix of prices being too expensive (exceeding US$60), executive interference diminishing quality (i.e. Saints Row reboot due to Embracer Group, Dragon Age: The Veilguard due to Electronic Arts), failure to meet expectations (i.e. Persona 3 Reload removing the female protagonist, Vampire: The Masquerade: Bloodlines 2's questionable story rewrites), and presidential incompetence resulting in higher prices meaning less spare money.

Well if everyone were voting with their wallet like is always suggested, nobody would be buying games until games are more worth their price tag.

I did find an actual source:

https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/more-than-60-of-us-game-players-only-buy-two-games-or-fewer-per-year-survey-finds/

Of course OP skews this data because that's all he ever does, but at least it's not the monthly ChinaGood or TrumpBad nonsense, in short gaming is so big now that the core gamer is a minority, which is kind of obvious though, most gamers are more casual. The core gamer who constantly buys new games is now comparitively a minority.

Probably a good thing, devs should hyper focus on this crowd and not casuals, prices can rise too, doesn't matter, the core gamer will have no problem, almost like a filter.

Originally posted by jocoo:

Game studios have prioritized pushing a political agenda (Woke) over making a fun game. it's very difficult to find a new good game to play.

Yeah, that's a result of trying to appeal to everyone, they need to stop that nonsense and focus on the core gamer.

Core gamer is also price insensitive, because they don't care and want video games, so we will see hardware + software rise in price and it'll not affect growth, it's why one can now spend 2k on a GPU and this be normalised.

Games costing $90-150.
PC and console hardware costing arm and a leg.
AAA developers unwilling to innovate or take any risks.
Terrible broken game engines pushed to all AAA games.
Corporate shenanigans from Xbox, Nintendo and Nvidia.
Economic disaster and instability caused by Orange Doom.

Take your pick.

name me one new game thats worth buying for the price they ask for ? only one i can think of is trails in the sky but thats a remake

I believe it. Back in the day, i'd stand on line waiting for a release of a game. These days, i wait for some supersale.

We had it being gouged and fleeced

Originally posted by jocoo:

Game studios have prioritized pushing a political agenda (Woke) over making a fun game. it's very difficult to find a new good game to play.

It isn't difficult at all.

Idk as well if this is just we in the US, but i would think gamers are aging. The Millennials who were really the big gaming generation are hitting 40 and beyond.

The game market, at least what the market seems to stride for are generally made for kids.

Older people aren't playing games as much, and for them to play they have to have a more mature theme.

The kiddies went for the free to play BRs like Warzone and Fortnite. The Millennials and Xers went to the Mil Sims.

As far as sports, they're copy paste, and so there is no need to buy these games every year.

The Fantasy stuff are generally made for younger audiences, but here in the states we're an older country, and not as many are having kids given the economic realities.

Simulation games seem to be doing very well, being it would seem older folks like simulation games.

As a whole, this could be why Game Pass isn't doing as well, being the games on Game Pass, are not very good games. It's not GP fault, its the fact the games as a whole, stink.

As graphics made incredible strides, and older gamers tend for more SP materiel, and the scripts aren't very good.

There is a brain drain in the gaming industry, that are coinciding with more mature gamers that don't like overall the newer products, are sticking with the older, breaking into new smaller genres, or otherwise waiting for big sales.

I have a day 1 launch scheduled to arrive thursday...huh..

Originally posted by Arvaos ⚚:

A study revealed that a majority of video game sales are fueled by only 4% of players. In 2025, 63% of US consumers are buying fewer games.

However, the even more surprising statistic is that 33 percent of gamers in the US don’t buy any new games at all over a typical 12-month period.

Why are US gamers buying less games?

Never trust any study or survey that is done without you having access to the people polled. It is very easy to skew any poll the way you want it to.

Follow the money and you will find who (and more importantly why) this study was done.

Originally posted by Boblin the Goblin:

Originally posted by jocoo:

Game studios have prioritized pushing a political agenda (Woke) over making a fun game. it's very difficult to find a new good game to play.

It isn't difficult at all.

Must be why your library is so full of amazing new releases.