I think there might be a few comments you haven’t posted this on, should probably get on that.

I’m looking for hope anywhere right now, and this gave me some. Thank you.

DO NOT GIVE UP HOPE

That’s true, but development costs have SKYROCKETED. What used to be done by a team of 5-10 now often require teams of up to 100 doing their specializations.

I don’t think paper maps and manuals really make up for the way game development costs have increased. Dev teams ballooned from 20ish people in the mid 90s to hundreds in the early 2010s. Furthermore, those 20ish people would put a game out in 12-18 months. Today it takes teams of hundreds to put out a game in 3-5…

Budgets have greatly outstripped manufacturing cost savings.

If you want to make that argument you’d have to argue that digital games don’t have to give a huge cut to brick and mortar stores, but digital stores still keep a comparable chunk, so unless you restrict that argument to first party titles it doesn’t quite…

$70 today is alot cheaper than $70 in the mid-90's. the prices of video games have been going down since the 90's but most people can’t tell because our money is worth less now.

meanwhile in the 90's.....

Ash’s comment doesn’t at all take into account the biggest issue with this low storage facing (USA) gamers, download caps and low speeds. The vast majority of the US only option is an ISP with caps or very low speeds, especially the further you get away from the coast and major cities. That’s why I can’t say that…

I want in on this New Hampshire game.

GS makes about 20% profit on new games, and that isn’t enough for their stores to actually be profitable/do more than cover costs. If they cap at 45 dollars, they would either have to offer even less for trades or they end up facing profit margins on used that are equivalent or lower than the new games, which we…

What I hope to see:

Watched Dudamel at an after party drink about 4 cocktails and 6 bottles of tempranillo within a two hour span, and perform almost all of The Magic Flute on a piano with that season’s musical director friend/special guest (they focused on Mozart that season), also wasted, in a room the size my living room, with 25…

It’s not that it’s news, it’s that someone took the time to actually research it and prove it to be true.

Nah, but it’s useful ammunition in our many attempts at getting shit done.

a breath of fresh air...

If you look there at the side of the PS4, you’ll understand why I feel like consoles really should be looking more like mini PCs than they do. I’m not a Microsoft guy, but goddamn if this big ass pillar isn’t a breath of fresh air after 15 years of losing consoles to cooling issues.

you folks should really scroll up and read my story.

Analog sticks since 1996? Try 1983 on the Vectrex!

As other have said, some of us never had consoles when we were kids (I am basically a pc gamer). I got my first DS on my late twenties. Then the psp, 3ds...