I don't think anyone born past the early to mid 90's seriously struggled with any kind of tech, so they can't troubleshoot. I feel like an old man preferring PCs to mobile crap, but at least I'm able to figure shit out if either malfunctions. I just don't understand how anyone can prefer a mobile interface over a good old point and click GUI. Mobile is fine when I don't have access to my laptop, but the laptop is far more useful.
I'm obviously bragging here, but I feel like us Millennials who aren't retards use PCs for way more stuff than other generations do. We're the types of autists who are programming or rendering or we do all kinds of other weird shit people don't even think about on a day to day basis.
Every now and then even as part of my work I try to put myself in the mind of a normie to understand the type of consumer they are:
. They hate complexity, they'll either ditch it and complain or hand it over to a techie if they find it too hard instead of learn it themselves
. They make phone calls/text
. They email
. They browse the internet and look at youtube videos or TikTok all day
. They may MAY occasionally look at a mobile game if they're really bored or are one of those people with a personal addiction problem
I'm pretty sure that's accurate, but when you understand that's the most they do it's easy to see why they're always on their phones and don't even really use a desktop PC. They probably don't even realise the amazing and fun shit you can do with even a standard desktop PC these days because of how powerful they are.
The dedicated normie 'gamers' seem to be primarily console users which would partly explain why the steam deck is so massively popular but the new generation consoles are getting lots of sales still too. Consoles go back to my point about complexity, normies just want to be able to go click, click, install at most and they don't want to have to think about anything else.
If I wanted to make a game for example that I could market to normies, my primary target would probably be steam deck users, since I can't access console publishers really as an indie dev.
There's also a portion of doing that sort of activity and getting it formated and working that doesn't seem to be part of the "common Z experience"
What I mean to say is the last time I was sick and stayed home from work I spent 8 hours straight trying to get a stupid Candyland cereal box game from when i was a kid to work on my computer. The process included installing Windows 3 in dos-box, before eventually giving up and running a virtual windows 98 machine in PCem, which I had never used before.
Last night I spent 3 hours getting Marvel Ultimate Alliance to work on my computer with mods and all from scratch. Even though I HAVE a fully set up copy in my backpack on a hard drive.
I don't think anyone born past the early to mid 90's seriously struggled with any kind of tech, so they can't troubleshoot. I feel like an old man preferring PCs to mobile crap, but at least I'm able to figure shit out if either malfunctions. I just don't understand how anyone can prefer a mobile interface over a good old point and click GUI. Mobile is fine when I don't have access to my laptop, but the laptop is far more useful.
I'm obviously bragging here, but I feel like us Millennials who aren't retards use PCs for way more stuff than other generations do. We're the types of autists who are programming or rendering or we do all kinds of other weird shit people don't even think about on a day to day basis.
Every now and then even as part of my work I try to put myself in the mind of a normie to understand the type of consumer they are:
. They hate complexity, they'll either ditch it and complain or hand it over to a techie if they find it too hard instead of learn it themselves
. They make phone calls/text
. They email
. They browse the internet and look at youtube videos or TikTok all day
. They may MAY occasionally look at a mobile game if they're really bored or are one of those people with a personal addiction problem
I'm pretty sure that's accurate, but when you understand that's the most they do it's easy to see why they're always on their phones and don't even really use a desktop PC. They probably don't even realise the amazing and fun shit you can do with even a standard desktop PC these days because of how powerful they are.
The dedicated normie 'gamers' seem to be primarily console users which would partly explain why the steam deck is so massively popular but the new generation consoles are getting lots of sales still too. Consoles go back to my point about complexity, normies just want to be able to go click, click, install at most and they don't want to have to think about anything else.
If I wanted to make a game for example that I could market to normies, my primary target would probably be steam deck users, since I can't access console publishers really as an indie dev.
There's also a portion of doing that sort of activity and getting it formated and working that doesn't seem to be part of the "common Z experience"
What I mean to say is the last time I was sick and stayed home from work I spent 8 hours straight trying to get a stupid Candyland cereal box game from when i was a kid to work on my computer. The process included installing Windows 3 in dos-box, before eventually giving up and running a virtual windows 98 machine in PCem, which I had never used before.
Last night I spent 3 hours getting Marvel Ultimate Alliance to work on my computer with mods and all from scratch. Even though I HAVE a fully set up copy in my backpack on a hard drive.
I haven't even played it now that it's working.
It's a different era/mindset.