US consumer spending on games fell 9% in 2024
(www.gamesindustry.biz)
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Excellent. Keep voting with your wallets, boys.
To clarify: these figures are for December only: Dec 2024 compared to Dec 2023.
Still pretty damning considering just what a huge percentage of consumer spending occurs in December.
Rookie numbers. They won't listen to us until we bump that to 90% or more.
The majority of games released lately just aren't very good.
Did the industry release any games worth buying?
Apparently Black Ops 6
I am pressing "X" on that one.
Sadly a large number of idiots are still following the latest AAA releases. CoD Current Year and Madden Current Year still are mainstays.
I had the yearly Madden releases pegged as garbage all the way back in the 90s. People will eat garbage directly from the can and it horrifies me.
It's okayish. There are a bunch of characters that "look" woke but I haven't seen any actually woke things yet.
The gameplay is very sweaty no matter what mode you are playing. It's probably going to be my last COD game due to that.
I got the game free via Game Pass. Did they count that as a purchase? Probably.
And I figure that's how these basturds are going to cheat the system moving forward. Offer the game via Game Pass/ PlayStation Plus for one month only, claim it's a "Best Seller" and then sell it properly. So long as they get to claim those "X million downloads in the first week," they can lie to the press and their shareholders that people casually inspecting the game makes it a "Best Seller."
No. Next one is hopefully Monster Hunter but other than that I am not seeing any on the horizon either. Guess it's gonna be going down from here, bring popcorn guys!
I can't think of a single AAA game that I was actually excited about this year.
I did buy STALKER 2 but it just wasn't able to recreate the atmosphere of the first one so I refunded it.
The same happened with the most recent Kingdom Hearts and the FLCL anime sequel. Arnold dragged his feet on Terminator 3 and look what happened there. They waited too long and the season had passed. Some things just belong in their time.
Space Marine 2 was awesome.
After that, I played a lot of remakes.
Lol well I hear it was a true return to form because just like the original it was a horribly buggy mess.
Make better games to solve this issue.
Quick, market even harder to other non existent demographics to make up the existing loss! 🙄
The only three "new" games I played last year that both held my attention and I'd consider worth the money were Romancing Saga 2 (a remake, but a significant enough one to be its own product), Unicorn Overlord and Steamworld Heist 2. It was a pretty weak year all around.
Which is why I'm currently putting another few hundred hours in Starcraft 1/2, hoping for Monster Hunter to be good.
those are rookie numbers
Been playing more older games lately. Feels a lot better than playing the new slop. Hopefully more people will join in on that(I am sure most of you guys are, I mean normies).
Even accounting for inflation and population/customer base natural growth, a 9% contraction is weak. It's in effect really about a 15% drop since you'd expect year-over-year growth just from population growth alone, but that's still a small drop, when you consider the sheet number of flops.