Truly non-woke competition is practically non-existent, the woke competition that does exist in the market is a total joke. Even well established franchises like Star Wars and Marvel are catastrophes every time they release a movie to the point even the normies don't want to watch it as a movie watch night because it's all that bad. I would have never have dreamt an indie creator could have a hope in hell of competing against the giants but even something like a standard sci-fi or action flick idea could probably do quite well as long as there's no cringe political messaging in it.
The games industry is the same, any of the old guard within the games industry is a total shit show. They're more concerned with ESG checklists and hiring SJW retards than making games now and I think that's partly why they make the release dates for their garbage games so long. When they do release anything, it's usually generic has hell even by the standards of big studios and inevitably going to have woke talking points or narratives that makes it impossible to get through.
I'm telling you guys go and make something, don't sit here bitching as people often do, download some software and start experimenting. I feel like even a short film could probably do really well and then you could build on that and make it better. This is a terrible market to be a consumer, but a great one if you want to be an indie creator.
You also kinda have to think we'll see a mass migration to nintendo stuff next year if things get extremely bad, with people wanting "classics" and them being almost solely what they've done for the past 10 years.
Like I still think gaming as a whole is a lot like the mineshaft/canary thing where companies keep digging for diamonds but refuse to change their direction, but if one company can capitalize on this market it's definitely nintendo.
Perhaps that's why Ni tendo isn't really talking about a switch successor. I know tons of websites are nearly demanding one.
"You need to make games like ours that never sell."
"Our lowest selling game this year was Advance Wars Remake. It sold a million in a month."
Even if they do create a switch "successor" it'll probably be after a bunch of remodels, like what they did with the DS and the XL's/slims/"lite's". The thing's been around for what, like 6-7 years? I'd say they still have a decent amount of runway before they have to think of creating a new console.
I honestly think Nintendo is going to start making mobile games.
The switch hardware is basically that, if I understand correctly.
See, I don't think they have a reason to (to make more at least, as they already have a decent amount of mobile ones, mostly pokemon). Sure it may get them slightly more people buying their games, but they'd lose out on a bit of the console market.
If someone buys a switch and only gets like 4-5 games for it, that's still way more than if a whale dropped $4-500 on one of the gatcha mobile things.