>>966995 It's more a factor of the entire economy retracting than a crash so to speak. Disposable income for everyone is drying up, and whispers of 70's-era stagflation are on the rise. The result is going to be even more predatory monetization practices to chase the remaining whales until each game is sustained by only 4-5 people.

>>967003 >due to bad business practices ie. not being massive corporations

>march <microsoft makes the 'how to make game guide' that boils down to no sexy females, always walk on eggshells, & diversity is more important than fun >april <BlizzCon 24 is canceled >this month <now they're shutting down studios similar to EA Felt like making a video with all the monthly news that keeps happening to microsoft

>>967316 Microsoft was known for "embrace, extend, and extinguish" since the 90s.

>>967316 But they apparently made a fortune off of the Fallout live action show

>>966995 Embracer expected a gigantic Saudi paycheck, that's the difference. >>967316 I fucking hate Apple, it's fans and it's influence, but they at least aren't Microsoft or Google. Those two are pure fucking cancer, they have the Midas touch of shit. a big part of it due to all the pajeets

>>967487 It's dead and gone precisely thanks to 80s and 90s early edgy fags who Right now are woke libtards

>>967480 Personally, I hate apple just as much for pushing that fisher price baby toy look every company uses now.

>>967316 >Comparing shit with diarrhea Nah, Apple can fuck itself and crash harder than mutt economy in 2008, it's fans are just mouthbreathing retards who like to get ripped off every second with bullshit. <An interview with Hack Jobs I'll give it that he was a visionary, but in spirit he was just a really good snake oil seller, and a really good usted car seller with the kind of bullshit and obsolete shit he passed as "New and awesome", for the retards and mutts >>967490 I'll give it that it has it charm nonetheless, still, that shit machine was used only in the US and maybe Premium Peru

>>967490 Yes but like Jobs said, his product is trying to create "culture" Although if anything everyone choosing the sleek and simplistic products have managed to become increasingly soulless

>>967490 >Personally, I hate apple just as much for pushing that fisher price baby toy look every company uses now. I blame everyone else for mindlessly following them. I think that it's a shitty, stupid look but nobody held a gun to the head of M$ or Android and forced them to ape Apple - that's on them and no one else. >>967492 >I'll give it that he was a visionary, but in spirit he was just a really good snake oil seller, and a really good usted car seller with the kind of bullshit and obsolete shit he passed as "New and awesome", for the retards To be fair, most Apple stuff does just werk so long as you bend over and lube up and submit to the walled garden. I've known a number of older people who have happily used macs and iphones because once their kids or grandkids or whoever set it up for them all they have to do is push the big shiny button shaped like a letter to get to their email or the big shiny button shaped like a camera to see the photos that their grandkids have taken and uploaded to a cloud drive. Likewise with people who use macs for A/V stuff because the displays are pretty good, the laptops are very portable, all of the software they need is available and Apple has robust cloud support. For the marginally tech-literate, Apple products have a niche that has gone largely unfilled by other brands. Apple products are hideously overpriced and their business practices are reprehensible across the board but I don't think that "snake oil" is fitting.

>Apple shit Go away It's interesting to see how hard people are turning on Xbox over the last 20 months. If you don't mind me using zoomer slang, it's just one L after another; Redfall was a disaster, Halo Infinite was a dud, Starfield was a disappointment, the Series X|S hasn't been selling well, they're starting to go multiplat, they've closed half their goddamn studios, not even the most ardent console warrior would defend this. There are some famous console warriors on shitter who have totally turned on Xbox and demand Phil be fired. It's starting to look obvious that Microsoft wants to leave the console space, and the only arguments I've seen against this are 360 nostalgia and "I don't want Sony to have a monopoly!", the former being a sentiment more than an argument and the latter being a rather pathetic talking point. If you have to resort to defending a product's existence by saying you don't want its business to go elsewhere; you don't have anything actually positive to say about the product. It's also odd how frequently I hear it, do Xbox fans think the industry is just Xbox vs PlayStation? The Switch alone is bigger than either, when you add mobile and PC into the mix they're only a moderate part of the industry.

>>967515 >If you don't mind me using zoomer slang You just did

>>966742 He will never rest until all games are skyrim.

>>966920 Its a robot.

>>967592 And you're a faggot.

>>967592 Yes, and the game specifically states it's a Girl Robot. I just felt it was slight flaw with the character design that I couldn't tell that just from looking at it. Only the fact it's tail is making a heart in the 2nd pic indicates feminine qualities. Aside from that it's androgynous I suppose, perhaps that was on purpose, but if it was why state 808 is a girl.

>>967521 You got to give cuckchanners credit when it's due, their retarded babble makes it easier to disregard their opinions.

>>967609 saved

>>967605 Because the designs are disgustingly Tumblr western due to the director being a gaijin.

This is just boom and bust cycle, in 3-5 years we will be right back where we were.

>>967626 All I care about at this point is that the people right now who thought they were invincible get fucked. They'll be replaced with more jews and leftists, I know, but I at least get schadenfreude from the current crop losing their minds.

Sorry for posting this halfchan garbage, but it got a chuckle out of me.

>microsoft finally goes Kaboom and retires from gaming <But then Apple enters the game This sounds like a fucking monkey paw, but right now, i can see ir happening, even more with Apple precios adventure with the pippin, and trying out again to (((try to fill))) the vacuum that microsoft will left in case they finally fuck off

>>967761 >It >Previous I fucking hate phoneposting while at work in lunch time

>>967761 >But then Apple enters the game Wait, is that a thing that's still rumored?

>>967761 Apple is already in the game anon, they won't stray from Mobileshit and have Macs, why would they? Plus the fucking Pippin. No point.

>>967764 Retards still think it's 2002 or some shit and think a console when they say stuff like this and not just a streaming service everybody forgets in 3 days.

>>967767 >>967769 Maybe people think they'll want a device to push Apple Arcade or some shit?

>>967785 >>967769 >>967764 Cool rumor but you can't escape the fact that even if Apple were to enter the triple gAAAy arena what games do they have to show to entice the normalfags to add that to the pile of streaming services that already have them by the balls. I can see the average normalfag passing on another subscription service when they already have netflix, paramount, gamergoypass, online subscriptions, ect.

>>967764 >>967769 >>967767 Not a rumor, it's not game streaming, and they have 1 meh mobile game worth trying out. Sonic is also getting a battle royale game this year D:

>>967801 I wanna try Dream Team but I also don't wanna give up an entire GPU to my VM for the sake of playing Sanic

>>967795 >what games do they have to show to entice the normalfags to add that to the pile of streaming services that already have them by the balls Nothing, and that's the thing, mutts will buy that Apple box because it has a Little Apple logo and that's it, that's why their shitty phones still sell to this day

>>966886 >Microsoft don't have the money Good. The sooner this cancer dies, the better.