Quite honestly they aren’t even competing anymore. The console wars as we knew them ended last generation. Sony is the only company left competing for boxes under TVs. Nintendo are out since the Switch is more a handheld than a home console and they’ve been pulling back from direct competition since the Wii.…

I mean I get the intention, I just think the execution was a failure. Like releasing a device targeted as replacing your VHS player when everyone is starting to move to DVDs. And it was especially bad considering it only worked in the US at launch from what I remember. Investing a lot of the marketing push in a region…

My personal theory, which I have absolutely no way to prove so just treat it like mostly baseless speculation, is that they realised the PS4 was going to beat them to launch so they pushed up the timetable which resulted in a lot of things not being ready in time for the announcement. Including a clear strategy. I…

It’s such a bizarre take when one of the more focused upon media features looked more backwards than forwards. Cable TV integration? HDMI pass through? I know it was cooked up prior to 2013 but even back then the writing was on the wall that streaming was going to become more and more prominent.

Yeah focusing on the always online aspect as the main issue and that it was simply “ahead of its time” really misses the point. The Xbone launch was bungled for a number of reasons but chief among them was an utter failure on Microsoft’s part to communicate what it was concisely or coherently. They just couldn’t…

“Just rent it" has become "Just stream it". 

Because this post and a lot of the comments misses the point that a lot of the downfall of E3 was down to the fact it was an industry event that opened itself to the public in later years. It was always too reliant on the industry driving it. Gamescom has always been open to the public and that's always been part of…

The pandemic was certainly a blow but most of the bigger conventions are either climbing back to or exceeding their pre-pandemic numbers now. You might think they're not worth it now but that memo doesn't seem to have reached the thousands of attendees that still flock to them.

I don’t think you can look at the death of one convention (which owes a lot of it’s decline to the fact it was reliant on industry participation and the industry gave up on it) and extrapolate that to conventions as a whole getting less popular. Many dipped because of the pandemic, for obvious reasons, but a lot of…

All that said though it seems all you have to do to tempt publishers back to a physical event is dangle a trophy in front of them. The game awards quickly seems like it's becoming the new E3. Less big press conferences sure but companies are still tucking away stuff to announce and promote there.

I feel like I’m living in an alternate reality sometimes because this had more red flags than a Soviet parade and people bought it anyway? Who are these people and why can't I dupe them into giving me money instead?

Love how this Joker (pun intended) is crying about them “stealing” his likeness when he based said likeness on a portrayal of a copyrighted fictional character. Those in glass houses really shouldn’t throw stones.

I was in Tokyo and Osaka a couple of months ago and either you went to very specific places or you’re not very observant. The places where you can smoke indoors are few and far between now (because new laws on it went into effect in 2020) and I didn’t encounter any. Was a huge change from when I last went in 2018 and…

Japan recently introduced stricter smoking bans in 2020 (they’d been planning them since 2018 ahead of hosting the Rugby world cup and the Olympics) that banned it indoors in most businesses and public institutions. I think there’s still a few exceptions but from my recent experience there I didn’t see many. Unlike a…

Yeah vaping was never cool.

Yeah they say smoking is “sexy” but it isn’t anymore, it’s disgusting. It had that perception still in the nineties, when FF7 originally dropped, but it’s been over two decades since then (and doesn’t that make me feel old). Perceptions on smoking have changed drastically in that time and the author doesn’t really…

Nah the twelve year olds are all on Fortnite.

Except they’re not vehemently against tattoos, just bad tattoos. Which isn’t an unreasonable stance to take. But your attitude clearly stems from a place of pretentious pseudo-intellectual bullcrap so I can see why you have trouble reading.

The real question is why is anyone still playing Overwatch 2 in 2023?

America is so culturally bankrupt that they even have to appropriate other cultures outrage.