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"There comes a time when we all declare the war is over": Former PlayStation Studios boss Shawn Layden on the future of video game consoles (www.eurogamer.net)

submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Most of the article is on AAA development as a whole but I found it interesting the comments about consoles in general.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 days ago (3 children)

We're losing the next generation to TikTok. The competition for gaming isn't Xbox and Nintendo. It's everything else in the freaking zeitgeist that can take your time away from your gaming activity.

Round two: the television strikes back.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Does this sound stupid to anyone else?
Like, the crowd you're "losing" to TikTok was not interested in buying a console regardless, am I wrong?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

But... but... the line has to go up! Don't you understand? It's not going up! Panic!

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 days ago

This is only a problem for capitalist shareholders (aka the ultra wealthy) who need to extract more wealth from consumers than they did last quarter but they're already at the limit of how much they can do so. Now the largest barrier is time and attention.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

That quote is just horribly disturbing to me. He’s basically letting the mask drop that their endgame isn’t to make great games, it’s to make you hopelessly addicted to screen time that you obsessively play and spend

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago

Oh you should read the next part

The pandemic gave us an unnatural pop for gaming, where we thought, 'oh my god, gaming is the biggest thing in the world'. Yeah, when you're locked down, it is the biggest thing in the world. But in a regular world scenario, you've got to combat against all the other distractions that are available to young people. And I'm afraid that we're not facing that threat head on as an industry.

Motherfuckers see unnatural conditions caused by a once-in-a-lifetime event, think they're the hottest shit ever, and when the numbers come back to normal levels they see other forms of entertainment as a "threat" that should be "faced head on".
Lmao. How can an industry be so full of itself?