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Video games are at an all time enshitified state. What are you going on about?! You must not be following the whole market.
Everyone and their dog is making games these days, so it's very easy, if you're choosy, to never have firsthand experience of a bad game anymore. The only thing holding us back is listening to adverts that over-promise and ever pre-ordering anything. We don't need them anymore.
i was referring to atari in the 80s
anway...
Yeah, video games went through an early enshitification cycle. Atari came out and was all the rage as people made games exploring what could be done, which attracted money, which attracted grifters as well as impatient executives. Between them, a lot of garbage got released to the point where the video games industry pretty much died. Nintendo revived it with the NES and their licensing program that meant someone there had to agree a game was at a certain level before they could even publish it.
Over time, the video games industry grew to the point where it is large enough to survive a wave of shitty games, even if those games are released by the ones normally expected to know what they are doing but don't because MBAs come in with "optimizations" that ruin things, plus sometimes brag (or are otherwise obvious enough) about what thet are doing to the point where people turn against them.
So even though the video games industry has come up with new ways of enshitification that the 80s grifters would have creamed their pants over, there's enough competition that understands that enough people don't really want or like that to thrive without doing it.
What are you talking about? There are hundreds of great games being released, the gaming industry is a lot more than a couple of big corps.
The indie game scene is thriving and while there's a lot of crap out there, it's not really what I'd consider enshitified.
On the other hand, AAA games and anything mobile is absolutely enshitified.
they turned into slop for most of them.