With the unprecedented failure of Concord we're almost there in the west. The last of ESG funds and government welfare needs to dry up. Just like in 1983 the video game industry crash mostly happened in the US. Japan's video game industry was still going at that time.
The industry won't go away but it'll shift. The game studios in the USA and western Europe will shut down. The AAA studios will rise in China and the indies will go to Eastern Europe. Nintendo will keep doing its own thing.
China now has a foothold in the AAA space thanks to Black Myth Wukong. This was helped by all the free marketing that was given by the game journals. I'm sure a bunch of people bought BM:W just to spite Kotaku and Sweet Baby Inc.
I'm actually happy the Western game industry is becoming radioactive. The woke shit they pushed is demonic. It's not just bad media, it was designed to actually make people hate it. I don't think that other points in history made culture that was as insufferable as the woke games of current year. The turd on top of this trash pile is our tax dollars went into making this woke shit.
Rest in radioactive piss, western game industry...
GOOD.
The crash will be like a cleansing forest fire, that clears away the dead wood.
The benefit here is that I think the "indie" and "AA" development scene is so fundamentally strong at this point that the collapse of the AAA game development will leave the stronger parts of AA development unaffected. Meaning that even if something crazy were to happen, like EA going under, most of the good workers in the industry will be fine, or rise from the ashes.
They need an Elongated Muskrat take over and purge.
Fire 75% of the staff, and make sure all management and HR go first.
Anyone not consumed by the mind virus can stay and get promotions
make them take loyalty tests the woke would absolutely fail.
Considering Trump is putting him at the head of a government 'efficiency' commission, I get a good feeling.