The State of Gaming 2025

[studbucket]

Spot on with Swen's quote. He gets it.

Working in the corporate gaming space, it's a constant battle to be customer-focused in the face of pressure from executives to meet some corporate or stock-price related goal.

Related to game pricing, Bellular had a video a few days ago on what we could expect in coming years.

[Picci]

Quote: Originally Posted by studbucket

Spot on with Swen's quote. He gets it. Working in the corporate gaming space, it's a constant battle to be customer-focused in the face of pressure from executives to meet some corporate or stock-price related goal. Related to game pricing, Bellular had a video a few days ago on what we could expect in coming years.

My Take from it;

• (I feel)Corporate will cater to both digital and physical sales. They will increase prices for both even though digital isn't effected at the set standard higher price. They'll use discounts/sales/ to tease gamers.
  
  
• Tariffs, Tariffs, Tariffs,
  
  
• He faintly mentions the rise of the pc gamer but does acknowledge it. PC gaming has become more popular of late. I believe many students when confined during the pandemic fell in love with gaming again on their laptops, pc's, smartphones. Nvidia DLSS tech also brought more attention
  
  
• Sony already has said that PS4 productions have stopped this year. I expect the Big 3 gauge how the pc world sales will be affected, and go from there with some forecasting. Microsoft has already said that their next gen system will be pc-like so it sounds expensive lol.
  
  
• Next-Gen is going to be expensive
  
  
• Tariffs, Tariffs, Tariffs

[Critical Kills]

The best time in gaming is right now. I started on Atari 2600 and can enjoy an amazing amount of imaginative games. While many focus on tasking companies with making their big games this or that, I've learned to enjoy games at face value, and not think about what they could have been, but what they are.

Sure there's plenty to be concerned about, video card prices are nuts, we have the tariffs (which in the end will be a good thing) and all sorts of unknowns.

But we also have a whole lot of magic being made that people are missing out on due to various, non-game issues. And that's a real shame but hey, people can support what they want and there's a game out there for everyone.

[MJ200]

we need more games like Hitman. Where its not all guns blazing or zombies or sci fi crap.

Ive always wanted a game like Clue or something where you playing in a huge interior locatiion with numerous npcs doing their normal activities and such. You would then have to roam the location to find clues with no linear crap on who comitted the murder or crime.

Each level would be a different interior

[Critical Kills]

Quote: Originally Posted by MJ200

we need more games like Hitman. Where its not all guns blazing or zombies or sci fi crap. Ive always wanted a game like Clue or something where you playing in a huge interior locatiion with numerous npcs doing their normal activities and such. You would then have to roam the location to find clues with no linear crap on who comitted the murder or crime. Each level would be a different interior

As someone who usually games with fun games like Call of Duty, High octane racing like Forza Motorsport, etc, I agree, we need our calm, thinking games.

I love Hitman for this reason, it is fantastic looking for starters, but it is not really all that linear at all.

I say not that linear, because there are a finite ways to do everything, that's what we want, at least give us the strong illusion of freedom to be imaginative.

I think this is a central core to why people have issues with games today, they lack the "soul" or the "personality", that intangible where you feel like you can't wait to play it because of the possibilities.

I play Call of Duty and Forza because they're fun and somewhat predictable in what you get at the end of the day.

But I play games like Hitman because they are games which you create stories that you will remember years later.

We also need a lot more mid-level studio games, right now we got blockbusters and pac-man makers, lol..both have their great strengths but where have all the middle of the road games at?

BTW check out this game on PC, a great game that is what I mean, it's a well thought out game, and it succeeds, and draws you in, because of it, and it's low budget but it's got insanely cute, cozy graphics.

At the heart of it too is people helping other people, so you can also feel that as well if that is something you might enjoy as opposed to just killing folks in a FPS or something

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1...s_to_write_to/