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Over three billion people worldwide now play video games, study reports

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tomc1985 wrote: post #153
neixidbeksoxyd wrote: post #74

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> There’s VR, but I believe there will be a new category introduced within the next five years that will change the gaming landscape. I have been dreaming of better interfaces (controllers) for games for decades. The Wii, despite it's limited power, was a huge leap forward in how we played games. Unfortunately Nintendo is the only gaming company taking risks while Microsoft and Sony keep doubling down on graphics wit…

> Unfortunately Nintendo is the only gaming company taking risks while Microsoft and Sony keep doubling down on graphics with the same controllers from 30 years ago. Because they work and they're what people want. Xbox and Playstation both tried their own motion controls and they flopped, and thank god they did. Many of us like controllers and don't want people trying to innovate that away.

I think their motion controls flopped because they were an afterthought. It's like comparing touch screen controls on iOS vs Windows.

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Post by neixidbeksoxyd »

modeless wrote: post #109
neixidbeksoxyd wrote: post #74

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> There’s VR, but I believe there will be a new category introduced within the next five years that will change the gaming landscape. I have been dreaming of better interfaces (controllers) for games for decades. The Wii, despite it's limited power, was a huge leap forward in how we played games. Unfortunately Nintendo is the only gaming company taking risks while Microsoft and Sony keep doubling down on graphics wit…

> If someone made a non-VR console with VR-style controllers Sony did with PS Move, many years before PSVR. I guess you could consider the Wii a prototype in that direction as well.

Yes, and the very few games that really tried to make use of the interface were amazing. Zelda Skyward Sword was incredibly fun. I remember slashing around thinking there was no way we were going back to regular controls from then on, but I was wrong. I think we have invested so much in the current controller layout that it's difficult for new ideas to get off the ground.

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Post by searchableguy »

chillwaves wrote: post #29
Baeocystin wrote: post #27

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Just a single game, Fate/Grand Order, has grossed ~3 $billion, and that was as of last year. I'm sure it's much higher now. The amount of money spent by players in mobile makes everything else look like peanuts by comparison. https://sensortower.com/blog/fate-grand-order-revenue-3-bill...

Those so-called "gacha" games rake in a disgusting amount of money. Even as a casual player, I ended up spending a few hundred on one.

I should make a gacha game, hmm.

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Post by danjc »

ArtWomb wrote: post #80

Ghosts of Tsushima may be the best Playstation game I have played EVER. It's a testament to how late in the console release cycle, developers are just now mastering internals. It's the ideal video game: open world, 13-century feudal Japan, Age of the Samurai. High contrast "Kurosawa" mode, 4K HDR is cinematically photoreal. I really hope it remains a Major IP for many years to come ;) https://blog.selfshadow.com/publ…

I got excited when I saw this - I don't game much but my son is obsessed with samurai and would love this. However, I think it's a bit violent for him - anything similar you could recommend for a 13y/o?

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Post by watwut »

abraxas wrote: post #137
bjo590 wrote: post #5

> Analysts point out that almost half of the accounted three billion are those who play only on smartphones or mobile devices. This segment is also ahead of all others in terms of growth. This segment is incredibly lucrative for the winners. Niantic has an estimated revenue of 800 million dollars. Supercell's highest reported revenue was just over 2 billion euros. King sold to Activision Blizzard for 5.9 billion doll…

It is so very depressing. Nearly every game released by those companies is an ad riddled garbage fire. It's an affront to what makes gaming fun. They are "games" in the same sense that slot machines are "games". They aren't games in the sense that non-mobile gamers talk about.

At least those games don't take over your complete life the way big online games. And don't lead to those playing often overnight, am addicted, am sleep deprived raging gamer situations.

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Post by beenBoutIT »

JauntyHatAngle wrote: post #150
martco wrote: post #123

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I played it after Last of Us 2 and it just doesn't compare, especially in terms of mechanics and visuals. If there's one last game to play on PS4 it's Last of Us 2.

Really personal opinion that one I feel. Last of us 2 is quite a different game with very different feel and gameplay.

TLOU > TLOU2 although TLOU2 is powerful in an interesting way.

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Post by beenBoutIT »

tanilama wrote: post #133
compscistd wrote: post #101

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I just finished playing through Horizon Zero Dawn which had been untouched, collecting dust on the shelf for a couple years. Found more time in the pandemic and I'm wondering what else I've missed out on! The only other titles I've played with great acclaim are God of War and Zelda: Breath of the Wild. From a brief wiki search, it seems outside of Nintendo, studios only tend to have one-hit wonders. I never played th…

GoW is really good. And surprisingly affordable (10 bucks!) considering the quality of such entertainment.

The GoW games on a PS2(console, not emulated) are amazing, especially considering it's a 20 year old system. I still prefer them to the newer GoW on PS4.

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Post by watwut »

chansiky wrote: post #93
thefounder wrote: post #20

Looks like an addiction getting out of control.

Half the "gamers" are on candy crush or supercell mindlessly clicking away, getting pavlovian salivations whenever some chest reward notification rings. With these numbers its an epidemic.

Imo, that is better then yelling raging online playing version of gamer. Still mindlesly clicking away for the most part.

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Post by axaxs »

oefrha wrote: post #159
axaxs wrote: post #120

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Proton is good, but in no measure 'better'. Linux isn't as unstable as everyone makes it out to be. Quite the opposite. Proton still has to work on linux, afterall. If Linux support bitrots quickly, then so does everyone dependent on proton.

While Linux might not be as unstable as everyone makes it out to be, your argument doesn’t support that at all. The point is Valve maintains Proton so that everyone and their mum doesn’t need to maintain their own Linux fork that’ll bitrot. Without an entity maintaining Proton it could stop working in a few months for all we know.

Yes, and nobody knew how to deploy or use Linux applications until Docker came along and saved us all.
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