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Topic	Do you think next console generation will be the first all-digital consoles?
adjl 10/23/23 6:57:05 PM #44:	BucketCat posted... basically what I'm saying is that, I hope that indie games go from niche with outliers finding mainstream success, to how I'd find out about games 10-20 years ago, where it was just some random person suggesting it or a magazine. That's less a function of AAA being a money grab, though, and more a matter of the industry being so much larger and there being so much more media covering it. We're never going back to a paradigm of having like four different magazines you can read and that being the main way you find out about games, simply because there are so many better ways to get a game out there than that and far, far too many "hidden gems" for a small number of media outlets to cover all of them. BoomerKuwanger posted... If you have to go through MS/Sony/Nintendo to get a game published anyway, then what exactly would stop them from jacking up the prices now, and Walmart going "sure, as long as we still get our cut"? See: "MSRP is $70 now deal with it." --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. <cite>adjl posted [p:976822780] in Do you thi... [t:80598393]...</cite> <quote>BucketCat posted... </cite><quote>basically what I'm saying is that, I hope that indie games go from niche with outliers finding mainstream success, to how I'd find out about games 10-20 years ago, where it was just some random person suggesting it or a magazine.</quote>That's less a function of AAA being a money grab, though, and more a matter of the industry being so much larger and there being so much more media covering it. We're never going back to a paradigm of having like four different magazines you can read and that being the main way you find out about games, simply because there are so many better ways to get a game out there than that and far, far too many "hidden gems" for a small number of media outlets to cover all of them.BoomerKuwanger posted... </cite><quote>If you have to go through MS/Sony/Nintendo to get a game published anyway, then what exactly would stop them from jacking up the prices now, and Walmart going "sure, as long as we still get our cut"?</quote>See: "MSRP is $70 now deal with it." --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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