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The future of gaming (lemmy.world)

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[–] Someone8765210932@lemmy.world 3 points 5 hours ago

Don't worry. Not much later and you won't be able to buy any kind of console or even a PC at all. You will only get "terminals" that are basically paper weights without the necessary subscriptions.

"You will own nothing and be happy" won't stop at games, movies and music. Better hope your 20€ basic office PC subscription won't become 50. Oh, and surly you'd love it if we baked some ads into "your computer". What? You want to play games? Better pay even more to rent 1/100 of some graphics card in some server room. Aren't we nice? That card costs like 10,000 bucks, surly paying 50 a month is a steal, no?

Just think about all the fucked up shit you could do to screw people over like this. How much money you could squeeze out of them...

[–] GeneralEmergency@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago

Console G*mers getting that PC experience whether they want to or not.

[–] Sir_Thominick_IV@lemmy.world 9 points 14 hours ago

If it's any consolation, there will always be people like me making open source games, free for the public. Though I'm only focused on PC games.

[–] TerHu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 19 hours ago

im not 100% caught up with the nintendo situation, but this sounds very similar to:

have a switch 2
games cost 80 dollars
you had 4 games yesterday and bought another one used
nintendo accuses you of piracy and bricks your device
you have 0 games and no console today

[–] Summzashi@lemmy.world 10 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

It's 2029 and nobody buys a PS6 because it sucks.

A power vacuum creates a new market.

All is well.

[–] HK65@sopuli.xyz 4 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

The new competitors are promptly acquired by Microsoft, and for some reason, Oracle.

They get folded into Xbox and bankrupted respectively.

[–] Summzashi@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago

Yeah let's all sulk and be angry

[–] Darkard@lemmy.world 10 points 18 hours ago

Don't forget the:

"Battle Pass"

The cosmetic micro transactions

the online play subscription

The in-game store that opens before the main menu

The in-game adverts

The day 1 dlc

The companion app on your phone

The invitation to join them on social media

The discord server you need to join to find out of the servers are down

[–] andros_rex@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago

The GameBoy Color I got in 1998 still works just fine (okay the speaker has been blown out since the Bush administration but…)

[–] Crescent@fedinsfw.app 1 points 11 hours ago

The only thing missing is that is costs 1200$ but it has no RAM. You have to supply your own. And the games are 100.

[–] MeatPilot@sh.itjust.works 25 points 1 day ago (1 children)

All your games are played by AI, you just get to watch.

[–] some_designer_dude@lemmy.world 8 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

I mean, Twitch seems to do well…

[–] RichardDegenne@lemmy.zip 9 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

At least you don't need to own the game to watch someone play it. There's a world where streaming a game would count as copyright infringement.

[–] VAK@lemmy.world 4 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

ContentID for games, coming soon

[–] bless@lemmy.ml 2 points 19 hours ago

Drink verification can

[–] Sergio@piefed.social 40 points 1 day ago (3 children)

They each cost 80 dollars

Plus 5 dollars a year subscription each. And you still have to pay the rest of the year for the game that Sony took away.

[–] Shellofbiomatter@lemmus.org 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

But seriously, how hard is it just not to buy?
It's not like sony/or any company automatically takes it off from our credit card, though they would really like to.

[–] Zorque@lemmy.world 7 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

"Just don't buy it" works great in a world where you dont have to pay for every meager comfort you can find.

[–] Shellofbiomatter@lemmus.org 5 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

And thats why those prices will keep on getting higher and higher. People are still willing to pay for those.

[–] Zorque@lemmy.world 2 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

They keep getting higher because the people selling them keep raising the prices. Do not discount their contribution by solely attributing blame to the consumer.

They have remarkably little control over markets, despite what your microeconomics 101 class might tell you.

[–] Shellofbiomatter@lemmus.org 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Of course they raise the prices and a single individuals contribution is completely non existent on the market.

But still the most simple solution remains. We might argue that one has to buy food, so they are forced, but luxury goods can very easily be left in the store. Of course it will have absolutely no effect on the overall market, just on their own wallet.

[–] Zorque@lemmy.world 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Yes, we can not buy entertainment and simply buy essentials. We can only go to work, come home, eat, and sleep.

But thats a very boring existence, and offering that as an alternative instead of demanding change actively speaks very poorly of your opinion of people.

The world is increasingly monetized, and simply refusing to participate will not change that. It will just cut you off more and more from the world. Which is worse for everyone.

[–] Shellofbiomatter@lemmus.org 1 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

I do agree that would be rather boring existence, but there will always be low cost activities or even ways to lower the cost of already existing activities. Like in current context, simply buying later when theres a sale and not buying on release day.

But i am advocating for a change, through the only means people have in their control. We have no control over markets, we have no control over what the companies decide to do. It's even arguable how much control we have over our government and in extensions how much control they are willing to exert over companies. But we can choose where we spend our money.

Yes, world is increasingly monetized. Refusing to participate in it will not have any effect, it requires active effort against it to change it and yes that does mean giving up some comforts, but on a bright side. Organizing rallies and looking for like minded individuals on a local level works rather well to bring people together or even just convincing people not to go along with the monetization.

[–] cannedtuna@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago (2 children)

And there’s an optional battle pass on top of that, plus separate purchasable cosmetics like an $80 Horse armor…. Wait a minute…

[–] PineRune@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

And even though you don't need to get the battle pass, it has items that are meta-defining and you can't viably play in online multiplayer without them without getting crushed.

[–] Sergio@piefed.social 4 points 1 day ago

As that stuff gets more expensive, they'll make it easier to get microloans.

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

And micro transactions

[–] krisevol@lemmus.org 17 points 1 day ago (2 children)

At this point that is a self inflicted wound. You don't have to buy a ps6.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 11 points 19 hours ago

Sony are idiots, the whole concept of a console is now dead thanks to them, the whole advantage of a console over a PC is "it just works". You plug it in, you turn it on, and you're playing games. You don't have to worry about whether or not the games will run on your system, you don't have to worry about your device specs, it'll work. If it doesn't work, it wouldn't be on the system. Easy.

Of course the sacrifice is that there's much fewer choices due to the lack of indie games and mods.

But now the experience is identical to that on PC, you just download stuff off the internet, hopefully you have fast internet that isn't pay by the megabyte. Since you're going to have to do that anyway, now you might as well buy a PC and get all the extra games and features.

[–] Zorque@lemmy.world 10 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Not for another two amd a half years, at least.

[–] zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 10 hours ago

I realize it was a typo, but at first I thought you were sneaking in some jab and AMD and I wasn't able to get the joke.

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 51 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's 2026, I own a PC using parts up to a decade old. Its worth less than 2 weeks of minimum wage. All the games are digital, I just got 15 of them for under £80 and can backup the installer to an external drive.

I can even get a refund a few weeks later if I don't like one of the games.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 33 points 1 day ago (2 children)

It's 2017, I'm using a state-of-the-art PC with a Ryzen 1700X and DDR4 RAM.

It's 2025, I'm upgrading my obsolete PC to a Ryzen 5700X3D to get a little more life out of it on the cheap, sticking with DDR4 RAM instead of upgrading to DDR5.

It's 2033, I'm using my PC with a Ryzen 5700X3D and DRR4 RAM that is now much faster than anything that can be bought in the current market at anything approaching a reasonable price. I am desperately hoping the capacitors on my 16-year-old motherboard continue to hold out.

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago (5 children)

I am desperately hoping the capacitors on my 16-year-old motherboard continue to hold out.

please don't give me new financial nightmares. I'm already poor.

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[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 1 points 17 hours ago

Aren't motherboards fairly cheap in comparison? If it gets bad enough they may still be making DDR4 motherboards in 2033...

[–] RodersTrotters@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago

Did u play GTA VI?

[–] kat_angstrom@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This is the bright future that we all always waited for. Now that it's here, let us commemorate our meagre contributions towards appeasing shareholder value, that which cannot be appeased.

[–] StarryPhoenix97@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

If there's one industry that I dont think will get bailed out its the video game industry. We just have to make sure there's still space for indie developers and there will be a Renaissance.

[–] jdr@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Controllers are digital now too, you have you log in with your phone or something.

[–] criss_cross@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

It’s like Jackbox but bad.

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[–] Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's 2029. You're still an idiot...

[–] betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

Look at this optimist who thinks any of us will make it to 2029.

[–] IAmYouButYouDontKnowYet@reddthat.com 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You need to use the electrical cable.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The PS6 doesn't take external power. It has a non-replaceable battery that can't be recharged.

[–] notabot@piefed.social 10 points 1 day ago

I'm sure you can subscribe "recharge" which lets you recharge the battery by 25% per day for a mere $49.99 a month, "recharge++" which lets you recharge 50% per day for just $79.99, or "ultra charge" which costs $99.99 but lets you fully recharge the battery whenever you like, but the battery starts to lose charge capacity after approximately 100 full charges.

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