I too am a lifelong gamer. Games in the 90s would very often release at £70. We've had super cheap gaming for a long time now. If games had followed inflation over the years we'd be at almost £200 for a game. Games today are cheaper to manufacture, but the time and effort and man hours that go into making some very big titles these days are phenomenal. £70 is too expensive for some games, but not all. And there's always a sale just around the corner.
@@Venison_0904 because carts where expensive. Moment discs happend games dropped by 15 easily. Then in the age of digital and games now selling multi millions in a month the price either should drop or remain the same. Especially in the age of them trying to chase F2P game profits
The UK being in recession and having a poor economy in 2024 might also be a reason for slow video game sales ... loads of people in tech made redundant this year.
Here's the problem. Younger are playing three games. Call of duty, fornite and fifa. So many of them don't play anything else. Of the ones that do play something else, they have gamepass and ps plus. It's going to hit hard. As an older gamer, I have no interest in playing games that what me to purchase skins or any other micro transactions. I want complete, diverse releases.
I play call of duty, fifa but I also play other games dead rising 2, off the record, lego games ect I'm not a one game person and I won't buy packs with real money unless it's DLC content
@@declangaming24 and do you have gamepass or ps equivalent? My eldest plays the odd game on the side from cod or fifa but they are always from something he has subscribed to. That's why game sales are dying
I bought 9 games today! But they were all for the Xbox 360 I bought yesterday! I have a ps5 but I'm looking for fun games, not expensive games. But until fun games is the most important thing, rather than profits for shareholders I'm not buying shit new. Broken games, no risk, pointless DLCs and constant fleecing the customer base means I'm sitting this out for a while!
I don't want to get too political but there are reasons why " new " games are not selling ...but we wait for the new GTA and Borderlands 4...as for me I am playing games from my library that I haven't finished..
Gaming isn't in crisis.... But it could be. More and more games are releasing broken, buggy, unfinished...... A lot of games are made to milk YOU for money even after the initial purchase. Games range from standard version £54.99 up too stupid amounts for deluxe versions that can go in too the £100 point. AAA games seems to charge more and put in less effort, and when you couple this with many poor sods can't afford to live, people are just choosing NOT to buy games as much. I mean look at this new tripe that is Concord..... Sony went out and ACTIVELY purchased the developers of that game, thinking it was what PS owners want?????? Then they charge £40, for yet ANOTHER game that is an Overwatch/Destiny rip off crappy title, that cost absolute MILLIONS too make. It's dumb moves like this, that companies/Devs are making more and more, which damage gaming and people lose any trust in a game actually being worthwhile and worthy of your money in 2024 and beyond.
The reason it's slow is because big corporate businesses like EA pump out shockingly bad games and expect you to buy it because a certain formula has worked in the past.
For me the best generation was the PS2/XBox/GameCube/Dreamcast era. That was the true "wow, look what you can do at home!" moment for me. My favourite generation, however, is the Mega Drive/SNES era, followed closely by the 8 bits, followed by PS2 etc., and lastly XBox 360. If we're not including handhelds.
I hate them articles saying gaming is in crisis ; well u know why because people can not afford to buy shite buggy games for 70 quid every week or even if there good games people might not have the income to splash out
Part of the problem these days is games are in development far too long and i often cant see the extra quality of them warranting it over generations like the Xbox 360. Good examples of this are GTA, Fallout, Elder Scrolls ... it used to be a couple of releases per generation now we are lucky getting one every 10 years.
My favourite era is the one I grew up with which is the 8-bit micro computer era, not quite consoles but they were the main machines which were used for gaming throughout most of the 80's in the UK while consoles had fallen out of favour.
Gaming is a luxury. The cost of keeping the lights on and food in the fridge has gone up. So spending 70 quid on a game isn't something some folks are doing lighty. FOMO is not a factor when the cost is too high. A lot of people are now thinking, "I'll get it on sale in about 6 to 9 months or so."
I would rather pay £5 or under for a 360 or xbox one game that I haven't played before that i know is rated well rather than 60-70 on a new game that has a high chance of being unfinished
As for my favourite console generation: it would be the seventh generation (Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Wii, Nintendo DS and PlayStation Portable) due to its high amount of games, digital marketplaces and so many other reasons!
It a real shame I feel that too many studio have tried to make the next big online game and are making ever bigger games that if they don’t work, like suicide squad, avatar, that take years to develop then you got a long wait for the next game. I do wish we got a few more smaller / shorter / arcade games that don’t require leaving up or going though million of menus and just get you to the action. like where this generation need for speed, ssx, motorstorm, titanfall, etc.
Game companies are pushing Micro Transactions more than pushing new games. BF 2042 a good example where everything that worked in previous games was chucked in favour of horrible design and greed.
One major problem is games are costing more to make and are taking longer to develop, that means less big AAA games are being released in general. Xbox still has Avowed, Indiana Jones and COD:BO6 due out the end of the year, Sony has Astro Bot and Concord as their first party releases.
Went to game today to pre order the new sonic generations. The member of staff had no idea if they took pre orders anymore. So they did and I paid £2 to reserve but the 1st of August they are unable to take any more in-store pre orders ever again. The member of staff didn't have a good attitude either and you could tell he hated it there
Game purchases are down because of game pass and download services xbox and playstation offer online. The same happened with dvds and rental places when Netflix and Prime came along. It's really that simple in my eyes 👍. Everything media wise has a subscription these days and like it or not that's the way it's gonna go
PS2/Xbox and Pokémon on the Gameboy colour/sp is where I spent most of my childhood but currently on the ps5 and love it, for some reason even tho I loved the PS2 and Xbox I just can't play that generation anymore I just love the graphics of newer generations.
With the current cost of living crisis most adults can’t afford many luxuries. Speaking for myself I don’t have The spare money now to buy 2 or 3 games a month like I did before and just try a game. Now I’m only really buying one or two games a year and playing the rest in Gamepass on Xbox. The pricing of games now is basically £70 upwards. And the last physical game I bought was about two years ago. Games are just two expensive now and let’s be honest most are not worth the full RRP and are heavily slashed in price within a couple months
Honestly my favourite generation is 7 (PS3, 360) Most of the games I enjoyed on PS2 got a release on PS3 and games I enjoyed on PS4 were also released on PS3. It was the sweet spot and arguably the apex of gaming. HD, realistic graphics and relatively fast. Stuff afterwards really are just spinning it's wheels.
My favourite system is the Xbox 360, where it had a lot of well known games and obscure on the system. I have more memories of it than the morden consoles that flet formulaic than the Xbox 360. Love your videos man!
The best thing about this gen is the ability to hold lots of backwards compatibility games all ready to play. My Series X has 11TB of digital games from the 360 era to the current era. Likewise, my PS5 has 9TB of PS4 and PS5 games. Having all the games ready makes it a good enough generation for me. I do not buy microtransactions nor battle passes. I will pay max £30 for a AAA game and that would have to be the complete edition/GOTY edition.
Ive been gaming since the spectrum and masters systems days, but I cant decide between the PS1/N64/Saturn generation or the PS2/GameCube/Xbox generation. Both were so full of creativity and new idea. PS1 gen was arguably slightly more creative but the PS2 really started to prefect evening thing.
I use Gamepass and wait for sales. I'm kind of tired of multiple versions of games, micro transactions, etc. I'm also tired of buggy games with constant patches (WWE 2K24 fans will definitely understand. Don't even get me started that I paid for the top edition yet am expected to pay even more for some damn outfits). I find myself less and less willing to take a chance on games when they are first released. I have a backlog of games I've not played or hardly played so I don't mind waiting on price drops. Physical copies feel kind of pointless as most of the game seems to install via download anyway. The disc seems literally to just be a key to the door. Plus for me the only option for Physical copies on the highstreet is CEX and newer games basically cost as much as a digital download so why bother? I'd prefer Physical but at the same time it as I said before seems pointless.
Its not just videogames its collectables in general. I sell Comic Books and Trading Cards and sales haven't been as good at events i have been to and im not just on about my stall. A mate of mine who last year was clearing at least £2k each event this year has been making penny's. Its taking some time to get back into a stable position with collectables sales.
Childhood nostalgia might draw me to the 4th generation with Sega and Nintendo's 16-bit offerings, but the 6th gen was the real deal especially with the PS2. Still enjoying the PS4 at the moment.
The main reason why Physical and Digital Sales is in Crisis is because of services like Nintendo Switch Online and XBOX Game Pass. These Companies are on track to outright kill the Physical and Digital marketplace and very soon we will not own anything and These Companies can just take games away and delist them whenever they want since we will all be tied down to a Annual Subscription model. Also XBOX can charge whatever they want for the Digital Game as they know that Game Pass will be the cheaper alternative option that their players will choose and we have all been conditioned to believe we are all getting a far better deal when in reality we are not. Simply put a game that has been launched on Game Pass will have an expiration date and we will still have to pay full price for the game if we wish to continue playing it so what even is the whole point in Game Pass anyway when it only serves as a Blockbusters style rental video game service. Modern Day Gaming is getting worse each day and I would gladly start playing older games that I own over what is coming out now..
My favorite console generation was the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 generation, mostly because it was my childhood and teenage years The only new game I bought this year was Persona 3 Reload, the digital deluxe edition. This one seems to have been forgotten and snubbed a bit, even though it was a trending game in the UK game sale charts for a few weeks.
PS1 and PS2 hold a very special place in my heart because of nostalgia and I love platform games like Croc or Spyro , original x box for countless playthrough of Halo. I still love modern consoles but I really struggle to justify buying new games because of the crazy high prices, last games I bought full price were Saints Row which at release was glitching to the point it was unplayable and Spiderman 2 which was a let down and the dlc is still nowhere in sight so now I never buy new releases, I always wait a good six months for fixes
I mean "FIFA " games are the EA FC games now, just without the name, right? Made by EA Sports, kept the Ultimate team and basically all the mods and engine FIFA used to have. Did FIFA announce any partnership, are they trying to make a EA FC direct competitor with the FIFA brand? I stopped playing FIFA somewhere on during PS3 gen, but I'm genuinely curious how a new FIFA game that's not made by EA would look like. =]
Ive played games since the mid 80s and the 360 generation has the best memories for me. Especially the live arcade. But overall, the PS4 is my favourite library as it has everything bar nintendo. Remasters of the best 360 games, obscure modern retro, retro comps, tons of jrpgs etc. Play that library on a PS5 and its easily my favourite.
If people want to see an increase in the regularity of ‘big’ releases, then there probably needs to be a reframing of expectations over what a ‘big release’ actually entails - by which I mean not rubbishing a game immediately just because it doesn’t have the graphical fidelity or technical polish of a Rockstar or Naughty Dog game. Similarly, the idea that every game should be a massive open world that takes 200 hours to complete, all because of a reductive idea that game length inherently equals value to the consumer. All these things do is lead to longer development times, spiralling budgets, crunch, and ultimately studio closures if the thing they poured years into doesn’t take with an audience.
Maybe if they started coming out with some original titles instead of Call of duty 54 or GTA 18. I've gone back to retro gaming because the current market is so boring. the last console i bought was the switch and I only have 3 titles for it. Also they are getting way to expensive. I'd rather pay £15 for a blue ray than £50 plus for a game I might play once.
The switch has an amazing catalogue of 8-bit and 16-bit era style games as well as excellent 1st party AAA and AA titles, most of which you can get physical copies for. £15 for a bluray you watch for 2 hours does not compare to a £30-£50 game in terms of bang for your buck so long as you avoid EA Ubisoft and Activision blizzard.
It's a good topic for a video but I'm going to have to say that the amount of games seems down but if you start to look into imports, limited print games and just all round indie stuff, there are releases all the time. There are so many games I've never heard of on the ps5 that i run into online all the time. Just most of these don't make it into the shops that stock new stuff, which has a knock of effect that they don't get to cex either, as the only people buying them in the first place are the collectors who were just going to keep them. Also your average gamer just buys the digital version so thats another reason the stock in cex seems so low.
Apart from Covid messing everyone up, game sales are following the usual cadence. A new console used to arrive every 5 years, but 5 years is a bit too long. Towards the end of the gen everyone gets a bit meh as apathy sets in and stops buying games. New console hardware cures that by sparking new interest to buy games. The PS4 gen was 6 years with a mid gen fresh arriving at year 3. This worked well to motivate games sale. Due to Covid the PS5 gen has had a slow start, so the gen is looking like 8 years now with the mid gen refresh at year 4. Mark Cerny totally understands the cadence of generations using new hardware to keep gamers engaged. Phil Spencer clearly did not get the memo and Xbox is going belly up. Once PS5 Pro arrives, PlayStation game sales will surge. Xbox will just keep sinking into the abyss.
Favourite generation has to be Generation 8 (Playstation 4 and Xbox One), specifically post 2016 as the first couple years didn't really have much. It allowed Japanese franchises that had been dead in the west or dead in general to have a revival, such as Yakuza or Resident Evil.
@@doublejumpvideogames.... It was dead in general yeah ,as games like RE6 and operation racoon city were more action and movie like as stuff like gears of war was popular.
Game production takes way too long. I bought a Series X on the trailer launch of Fable 4. That was over a year ago. Still no release date. The other issue is the quality. FFVII Rebirth was awful. Square took the risk to aim it at younger players, not the OG base. And it backfired. Now they want to abandon exclusives to expand the audience. It wont work. Xbox players think it sucks too. If they had stayed true to the original, theyd have sold millions more. The only time I excited for games now is when Steam surprises me with a strategy gem.
I’m actually planning to replace my Xbox Series X with a PS5 Pro, seeing as Microsoft are going all but completely all-digital, I can’t support them anymore! I didn’t even want a PS4 OR Xbox One in the first place! The PS4 I skipped completely, the only reason I even got an Xbox One was because my Mom INSISTED I get one after my Jasper 360 RRODed in 2016! I should’ve been more assertive in my refusal to upgrade, with both the Xbone and PS4 forcing all those updates and shit on their users! I’ll mainly use my PS5 for 4K Blu Rays, playing the PS4 games I missed and a good few PS5 games! What we need to see more of in stores is Evercade products! Evercade is a GREAT gaming ecosystem, physical cartridges, the ability to play straight away and although you can update your system, you don’t need to! If I were to open a game store, I’d stock PS4, PS5, Switch, Switch 2, Evercade and Chromatic! No Xbox stuff in my store!
6th gen has to be my favourite, granted i was born into it so my nostalgia bias is a little strong but 3 incredbile systems, teh ps2 had one of the greatest libraries of any system, the gc was poorly marketed but had classics in the large majority of major nintendo ips and xbox gave us halo. it was also the last generation in which major publishers focus was primarily on making good games to make a lot of money not cash sapping husks to make all the money. companies like ubisoft were bringing us games like beyond good and evil, splinter cell, cold fear, real ghost reacon games not just this year's new open world and another ac game. the shift deffo happened in the 7th gen and so it's not like the 360 and ps3 immediately brought on the end times but the 6th was the last mostly safe gem
It's awful. I have a PS5 and I think I've played less PS5 games than I have fingers. My PS5 literally is just used for me to play my PS4 games without sounding like a jet engine at this point
Games are now shit, but shit and expensive. Back in the day you had loads of releases some were bad but they were also cheap. Repeats of games today remasters remakes we've seen it all before. Also jump from ps1 to PS2 and then to PS3 was massive, today I don't see a huge difference between PS4 and 5. There's no hype anymore.
It's a money grab nowadays. There's no passion in the games anymore compared to the previous generations. Just look at what's released in recent years since the pandemic and how shit they are compared to the 360 and ps3 generation. Just look at the showcases this year xbox one was decent and fairly stacked the PlayStation one a lot of the games was on the xbox showcase. Sony and xbox to a degree, are just sticking to what they know will bring in the money. Xbox will branch out to try new things once in a while. Personally the 360 generation was the best you had decent games released on both consoles and those that were gambles but were genuinely good. The passion was in the games back then now not so much or they are far and few in between. It boils down to corporate greed ultimately
Unfinished, DEI infected games are being released that are not fun to play. The production cycle of games has hugely increased and therefore the variety of games are reduced, because no one is willing to take a risk. More companies are investing in lifeservice games to become the next Fortnite and less in quality games. So yes, gaming industry is in trouble right now. I am having more fun playing on the 360 right now than on this newer generation of consoles and I am not feeling that I am missing out on something…
New games are boring and lack luster they're few and far between as far as quality is concerned. Older games are so much better and fun. New games cost a mint and for the most part dont live up to the price. I've been playing so much ps3 recently this is my favourite generation of gaming and the peak of gaming.
wokeness and microtransactions cocky game devs who think they better then us the same boring IPS like call of duty and assassin's creed are all the reasons and the lack of games this year and shown at the game fest
It's the fact most games are pushing 70 quid now and almost all of them have micro transactions
I'm a lifelong gamer, £70 per game is simply too much
I too am a lifelong gamer. Games in the 90s would very often release at £70. We've had super cheap gaming for a long time now. If games had followed inflation over the years we'd be at almost £200 for a game. Games today are cheaper to manufacture, but the time and effort and man hours that go into making some very big titles these days are phenomenal. £70 is too expensive for some games, but not all. And there's always a sale just around the corner.
@@Venison_0904 because carts where expensive.
Moment discs happend games dropped by 15 easily.
Then in the age of digital and games now selling multi millions in a month the price either should drop or remain the same.
Especially in the age of them trying to chase F2P game profits
Go back to ps3 great games and graphics and at the moment cheap games but they are on the rise because people are cottoning on to this. 😊
The UK being in recession and having a poor economy in 2024 might also be a reason for slow video game sales ... loads of people in tech made redundant this year.
Physical game sales are down because these companies aren’t releasing physical copies
Obviously they dont want money
@@MrSkullMerchantbecause consumers don’t care about physical format
@@therealjaystone2344 well me and many many other consumers very much cares for physical format, i dont own (cant own them anyway lol) any digital bs
@@therealjaystone2344I don't really mind
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The myth devs want us to believe
Here's the problem. Younger are playing three games. Call of duty, fornite and fifa. So many of them don't play anything else. Of the ones that do play something else, they have gamepass and ps plus. It's going to hit hard. As an older gamer, I have no interest in playing games that what me to purchase skins or any other micro transactions. I want complete, diverse releases.
I play call of duty, fifa but I also play other games dead rising 2, off the record, lego games ect I'm not a one game person and I won't buy packs with real money unless it's DLC content
@@declangaming24 and do you have gamepass or ps equivalent? My eldest plays the odd game on the side from cod or fifa but they are always from something he has subscribed to. That's why game sales are dying
@samreimann4233 yeah but i have bought stuff for sales which some are literal bargains £9.99 for 3 lego games.
I bought 9 games today! But they were all for the Xbox 360 I bought yesterday!
I have a ps5 but I'm looking for fun games, not expensive games. But until fun games is the most important thing, rather than profits for shareholders I'm not buying shit new.
Broken games, no risk, pointless DLCs and constant fleecing the customer base means I'm sitting this out for a while!
I don't want to get too political but there are reasons why " new " games are not selling ...but we wait for the new GTA and Borderlands 4...as for me I am playing games from my library that I haven't finished..
Im guessing you mean woke shite, yes ive heard its corrupting gaming now
@@garypointer7494 Apart from Resident Evil 5 and Last Of Us 2 i wasnt aware any other games had fallen into this potential modern trap
@@SecretOfMonkeyIsland784lol saints row? Kill the justice league?
Grow up @Terry.w it's year on year sales, big year last year smaller year this... Nothing to do with the nonsense that you're eluding to.
"Women bad"
Gaming isn't in crisis.... But it could be.
More and more games are releasing broken, buggy, unfinished...... A lot of games are made to milk YOU for money even after the initial purchase.
Games range from standard version £54.99 up too stupid amounts for deluxe versions that can go in too the £100 point.
AAA games seems to charge more and put in less effort, and when you couple this with many poor sods can't afford to live, people are just choosing NOT to buy games as much.
I mean look at this new tripe that is Concord..... Sony went out and ACTIVELY purchased the developers of that game, thinking it was what PS owners want??????
Then they charge £40, for yet ANOTHER game that is an Overwatch/Destiny rip off crappy title, that cost absolute MILLIONS too make.
It's dumb moves like this, that companies/Devs are making more and more, which damage gaming and people lose any trust in a game actually being worthwhile and worthy of your money in 2024 and beyond.
Gaming is in crisis open your open eyes
The reason it's slow is because big corporate businesses like EA pump out shockingly bad games and expect you to buy it because a certain formula has worked in the past.
And ppl keep buying booty boxes that EA made a billion per year
2 main reasons sales are decreasing
1. Inflation/higher pricing to many incomplete games with hundreds of dollars of dlc
2. Quality
For me the best generation was the PS2/XBox/GameCube/Dreamcast era. That was the true "wow, look what you can do at home!" moment for me. My favourite generation, however, is the Mega Drive/SNES era, followed closely by the 8 bits, followed by PS2 etc., and lastly XBox 360. If we're not including handhelds.
I hate them articles saying gaming is in crisis ; well u know why because people can not afford to buy shite buggy games for 70 quid every week or even if there good games people might not have the income to splash out
Part of the problem these days is games are in development far too long and i often cant see the extra quality of them warranting it over generations like the Xbox 360. Good examples of this are GTA, Fallout, Elder Scrolls ... it used to be a couple of releases per generation now we are lucky getting one every 10 years.
My vote for the best gaming gen, the 6th. Dreamcast, PS2, GameCube and Xbox.
No CEX in the title. Am I seeing things for CEX credit
My favourite era is the one I grew up with which is the 8-bit micro computer era, not quite consoles but they were the main machines which were used for gaming throughout most of the 80's in the UK while consoles had fallen out of favour.
Gaming is a luxury. The cost of keeping the lights on and food in the fridge has gone up. So spending 70 quid on a game isn't something some folks are doing lighty. FOMO is not a factor when the cost is too high. A lot of people are now thinking, "I'll get it on sale in about 6 to 9 months or so."
Game prices going up and the quality has seemingly gotten worse. Yeah go figure people are not going to buy them.
I would rather pay £5 or under for a 360 or xbox one game that I haven't played before that i know is rated well rather than 60-70 on a new game that has a high chance of being unfinished
Tvm now showcasing game on the thumbnail so that he convinces Wayne’s world the he’s not all cex.
As for my favourite console generation: it would be the seventh generation (Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Wii, Nintendo DS and PlayStation Portable) due to its high amount of games, digital marketplaces and so many other reasons!
It a real shame I feel that too many studio have tried to make the next big online game and are making ever bigger games that if they don’t work, like suicide squad, avatar, that take years to develop then you got a long wait for the next game. I do wish we got a few more smaller / shorter / arcade games that don’t require leaving up or going though million of menus and just get you to the action. like where this generation need for speed, ssx, motorstorm, titanfall, etc.
Game companies are pushing Micro Transactions more than pushing new games. BF 2042 a good example where everything that worked in previous games was chucked in favour of horrible design and greed.
One major problem is games are costing more to make and are taking longer to develop, that means less big AAA games are being released in general.
Xbox still has Avowed, Indiana Jones and COD:BO6 due out the end of the year, Sony has Astro Bot and Concord as their first party releases.
Went to game today to pre order the new sonic generations.
The member of staff had no idea if they took pre orders anymore. So they did and I paid £2 to reserve but the 1st of August they are unable to take any more in-store pre orders ever again.
The member of staff didn't have a good attitude either and you could tell he hated it there
Game purchases are down because of game pass and download services xbox and playstation offer online. The same happened with dvds and rental places when Netflix and Prime came along. It's really that simple in my eyes 👍. Everything media wise has a subscription these days and like it or not that's the way it's gonna go
PS2/Xbox and Pokémon on the Gameboy colour/sp is where I spent most of my childhood but currently on the ps5 and love it, for some reason even tho I loved the PS2 and Xbox I just can't play that generation anymore I just love the graphics of newer generations.
With the current cost of living crisis most adults can’t afford many luxuries. Speaking for myself I don’t have The spare money now to buy 2 or 3 games a month like I did before and just try a game. Now I’m only really buying one or two games a year and playing the rest in Gamepass on Xbox. The pricing of games now is basically £70 upwards. And the last physical game I bought was about two years ago. Games are just two expensive now and let’s be honest most are not worth the full RRP and are heavily slashed in price within a couple months
Honestly my favourite generation is 7 (PS3, 360) Most of the games I enjoyed on PS2 got a release on PS3 and games I enjoyed on PS4 were also released on PS3. It was the sweet spot and arguably the apex of gaming. HD, realistic graphics and relatively fast. Stuff afterwards really are just spinning it's wheels.
IMO, look at value for money with the games we got on xbox 360 compared to what we get now. Thats one of the reasons why gaming sales are down.
Game dying was inevitable... over 80% of games are sold digitally now. Leaving little custom for game
Sum 41 and Avril Lavigne being name checked as examples of surging overall music sales 😂😂😂
My favourite system is the Xbox 360, where it had a lot of well known games and obscure on the system. I have more memories of it than the morden consoles that flet formulaic than the Xbox 360.
Love your videos man!
Xbox 360 is way over rated at the moment
Games are expensive and lack of sale on games don’t help there’s games that are a year old and still range £30-40
The best thing about this gen is the ability to hold lots of backwards compatibility games all ready to play. My Series X has 11TB of digital games from the 360 era to the current era. Likewise, my PS5 has 9TB of PS4 and PS5 games. Having all the games ready makes it a good enough generation for me.
I do not buy microtransactions nor battle passes. I will pay max £30 for a AAA game and that would have to be the complete edition/GOTY edition.
Ive been gaming since the spectrum and masters systems days, but I cant decide between the PS1/N64/Saturn generation or the PS2/GameCube/Xbox generation. Both were so full of creativity and new idea. PS1 gen was arguably slightly more creative but the PS2 really started to prefect evening thing.
I don't think I've bought physical in ages. Digital is just too nice
I use Gamepass and wait for sales.
I'm kind of tired of multiple versions of games, micro transactions, etc.
I'm also tired of buggy games with constant patches (WWE 2K24 fans will definitely understand. Don't even get me started that I paid for the top edition yet am expected to pay even more for some damn outfits).
I find myself less and less willing to take a chance on games when they are first released.
I have a backlog of games I've not played or hardly played so I don't mind waiting on price drops.
Physical copies feel kind of pointless as most of the game seems to install via download anyway. The disc seems literally to just be a key to the door.
Plus for me the only option for Physical copies on the highstreet is CEX and newer games basically cost as much as a digital download so why bother?
I'd prefer Physical but at the same time it as I said before seems pointless.
Its not just videogames its collectables in general. I sell Comic Books and Trading Cards and sales haven't been as good at events i have been to and im not just on about my stall. A mate of mine who last year was clearing at least £2k each event this year has been making penny's. Its taking some time to get back into a stable position with collectables sales.
Childhood nostalgia might draw me to the 4th generation with Sega and Nintendo's 16-bit offerings, but the 6th gen was the real deal especially with the PS2. Still enjoying the PS4 at the moment.
Ps1/n64 was the best gen hands down. So many varied titles and back before games were all about online and pleasing the share holdera
The main reason why Physical and Digital Sales is in Crisis is because of services like Nintendo Switch Online and XBOX Game Pass. These Companies are on track to outright kill the Physical and Digital marketplace and very soon we will not own anything and These Companies can just take games away and delist them whenever they want since we will all be tied down to a Annual Subscription model. Also XBOX can charge whatever they want for the Digital Game as they know that Game Pass will be the cheaper alternative option that their players will choose and we have all been conditioned to believe we are all getting a far better deal when in reality we are not. Simply put a game that has been launched on Game Pass will have an expiration date and we will still have to pay full price for the game if we wish to continue playing it so what even is the whole point in Game Pass anyway when it only serves as a Blockbusters style rental video game service. Modern Day Gaming is getting worse each day and I would gladly start playing older games that I own over what is coming out now..
My favorite console generation was the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 generation, mostly because it was my childhood and teenage years
The only new game I bought this year was Persona 3 Reload, the digital deluxe edition. This one seems to have been forgotten and snubbed a bit, even though it was a trending game in the UK game sale charts for a few weeks.
Definitely PS3 is the console king.
PS1 and PS2 hold a very special place in my heart because of nostalgia and I love platform games like Croc or Spyro , original x box for countless playthrough of Halo.
I still love modern consoles but I really struggle to justify buying new games because of the crazy high prices, last games I bought full price were Saints Row which at release was glitching to the point it was unplayable and Spiderman 2 which was a let down and the dlc is still nowhere in sight so now I never buy new releases, I always wait a good six months for fixes
Have a successful franchise, you get taken over by a major, have a flop, you go bust. This reduces competition and creativity.
I mean "FIFA " games are the EA FC games now, just without the name, right? Made by EA Sports, kept the Ultimate team and basically all the mods and engine FIFA used to have.
Did FIFA announce any partnership, are they trying to make a EA FC direct competitor with the FIFA brand? I stopped playing FIFA somewhere on during PS3 gen, but I'm genuinely curious how a new FIFA game that's not made by EA would look like. =]
Ive played games since the mid 80s and the 360 generation has the best memories for me. Especially the live arcade. But overall, the PS4 is my favourite library as it has everything bar nintendo. Remasters of the best 360 games, obscure modern retro, retro comps, tons of jrpgs etc. Play that library on a PS5 and its easily my favourite.
the fifa licence is no longer attached to what we know as "fifa games" EA FC is just a rebrand of the existing fifa series
Fifa 2k25 might come out soon
If people want to see an increase in the regularity of ‘big’ releases, then there probably needs to be a reframing of expectations over what a ‘big release’ actually entails - by which I mean not rubbishing a game immediately just because it doesn’t have the graphical fidelity or technical polish of a Rockstar or Naughty Dog game. Similarly, the idea that every game should be a massive open world that takes 200 hours to complete, all because of a reductive idea that game length inherently equals value to the consumer. All these things do is lead to longer development times, spiralling budgets, crunch, and ultimately studio closures if the thing they poured years into doesn’t take with an audience.
Maybe if they started coming out with some original titles instead of Call of duty 54 or GTA 18. I've gone back to retro gaming because the current market is so boring. the last console i bought was the switch and I only have 3 titles for it. Also they are getting way to expensive. I'd rather pay £15 for a blue ray than £50 plus for a game I might play once.
The switch has an amazing catalogue of 8-bit and 16-bit era style games as well as excellent 1st party AAA and AA titles, most of which you can get physical copies for. £15 for a bluray you watch for 2 hours does not compare to a £30-£50 game in terms of bang for your buck so long as you avoid EA Ubisoft and Activision blizzard.
Im not paying £50+ for digital games, I want a disc or there is no deal.
No good games are coming out , this isnt just in the uk
Game sales are down as a back end issue coming out of covid, hence the lack of big varied titles.
PS2 and the GameBoy advance were my childhood
6th generation is my favourite, i would lose hours playing Snake Eater and MGS Online on my PS2
It's a good topic for a video but I'm going to have to say that the amount of games seems down but if you start to look into imports, limited print games and just all round indie stuff, there are releases all the time. There are so many games I've never heard of on the ps5 that i run into online all the time. Just most of these don't make it into the shops that stock new stuff, which has a knock of effect that they don't get to cex either, as the only people buying them in the first place are the collectors who were just going to keep them. Also your average gamer just buys the digital version so thats another reason the stock in cex seems so low.
Apart from Covid messing everyone up, game sales are following the usual cadence. A new console used to arrive every 5 years, but 5 years is a bit too long. Towards the end of the gen everyone gets a bit meh as apathy sets in and stops buying games. New console hardware cures that by sparking new interest to buy games. The PS4 gen was 6 years with a mid gen fresh arriving at year 3. This worked well to motivate games sale. Due to Covid the PS5 gen has had a slow start, so the gen is looking like 8 years now with the mid gen refresh at year 4. Mark Cerny totally understands the cadence of generations using new hardware to keep gamers engaged. Phil Spencer clearly did not get the memo and Xbox is going belly up.
Once PS5 Pro arrives, PlayStation game sales will surge. Xbox will just keep sinking into the abyss.
Favourite generation has to be Generation 8 (Playstation 4 and Xbox One), specifically post 2016 as the first couple years didn't really have much. It allowed Japanese franchises that had been dead in the west or dead in general to have a revival, such as Yakuza or Resident Evil.
Resident evil was never dead in the west
@@doublejumpvideogames.... It was dead in general yeah ,as games like RE6 and operation racoon city were more action and movie like as stuff like gears of war was popular.
@@SlySinatraa it wasn't dead then was it ? The franchise just went into a rubbish direction
I like the 360 and ps3 era and these tend to be 90% of the games that I buy from cex and ebay now
xbox 360 and 3ds for me! So many good memories...
Game production takes way too long. I bought a Series X on the trailer launch of Fable 4. That was over a year ago. Still no release date.
The other issue is the quality. FFVII Rebirth was awful.
Square took the risk to aim it at younger players, not the OG base. And it backfired.
Now they want to abandon exclusives to expand the audience. It wont work. Xbox players think it sucks too.
If they had stayed true to the original, theyd have sold millions more.
The only time I excited for games now is when Steam surprises me with a strategy gem.
Looking forward to the new Mario and Luigi game coming out November 07
I’m actually planning to replace my Xbox Series X with a PS5 Pro, seeing as Microsoft are going all but completely all-digital, I can’t support them anymore!
I didn’t even want a PS4 OR Xbox One in the first place! The PS4 I skipped completely, the only reason I even got an Xbox One was because my Mom INSISTED I get one after my Jasper 360 RRODed in 2016! I should’ve been more assertive in my refusal to upgrade, with both the Xbone and PS4 forcing all those updates and shit on their users!
I’ll mainly use my PS5 for 4K Blu Rays, playing the PS4 games I missed and a good few PS5 games!
What we need to see more of in stores is Evercade products! Evercade is a GREAT gaming ecosystem, physical cartridges, the ability to play straight away and although you can update your system, you don’t need to!
If I were to open a game store, I’d stock PS4, PS5, Switch, Switch 2, Evercade and Chromatic! No Xbox stuff in my store!
100% xbox368/PS3 nice and simple, great games, online gaming IF you want that sort of thing. Now, you simply must be online, just not my thing at all.
I’ve still been buying physical games, mostly Xbox 360 ones though.
No one is buying games because they cant afford £50 to £70
Im old enough too remember having Commodore and Amiga's and all the early consoles. But my favourite has too be the Xbox 360.
Me too ...Atari ST back in the day
6th gen has to be my favourite, granted i was born into it so my nostalgia bias is a little strong but 3 incredbile systems, teh ps2 had one of the greatest libraries of any system, the gc was poorly marketed but had classics in the large majority of major nintendo ips and xbox gave us halo. it was also the last generation in which major publishers focus was primarily on making good games to make a lot of money not cash sapping husks to make all the money. companies like ubisoft were bringing us games like beyond good and evil, splinter cell, cold fear, real ghost reacon games not just this year's new open world and another ac game. the shift deffo happened in the 7th gen and so it's not like the 360 and ps3 immediately brought on the end times but the 6th was the last mostly safe gem
I don't know which was the best, but the current one (PS5/XboxSX) is BY FAR the worst.
Ps2 the first console I ever played and still go back to it now for nostalgia vibes my favourite game on it is simpsons hit and run
Make a Taylor Swift video game - we'll pay £800 for it.
This console generation will go down as the worst
It's awful. I have a PS5 and I think I've played less PS5 games than I have fingers.
My PS5 literally is just used for me to play my PS4 games without sounding like a jet engine at this point
@@darksoleride7466don't all play stations sound like a jet engine my brothers PS4 sounds like a plane in the air the way the fan goes off
Switch library is gold though imo
@@declangaming24 nah PS5 is super quiet PS4 is the only one that sounds like it's going to take off.
I haven’t brought a game since I have had game pass 2 years ago
HI Another reason sales are down , there has no new Content ,
do they count second hand games, because not alot of good games are being made.
nice video and i would proably say my favourite generation of video game systems is probably the 8th generation
Games are now shit, but shit and expensive. Back in the day you had loads of releases some were bad but they were also cheap. Repeats of games today remasters remakes we've seen it all before. Also jump from ps1 to PS2 and then to PS3 was massive, today I don't see a huge difference between PS4 and 5. There's no hype anymore.
Is this the 99th video about game closing down? 😂
It's a money grab nowadays. There's no passion in the games anymore compared to the previous generations. Just look at what's released in recent years since the pandemic and how shit they are compared to the 360 and ps3 generation. Just look at the showcases this year xbox one was decent and fairly stacked the PlayStation one a lot of the games was on the xbox showcase. Sony and xbox to a degree, are just sticking to what they know will bring in the money. Xbox will branch out to try new things once in a while. Personally the 360 generation was the best you had decent games released on both consoles and those that were gambles but were genuinely good. The passion was in the games back then now not so much or they are far and few in between. It boils down to corporate greed ultimately
Unfinished, DEI infected games are being released that are not fun to play. The production cycle of games has hugely increased and therefore the variety of games are reduced, because no one is willing to take a risk. More companies are investing in lifeservice games to become the next Fortnite and less in quality games. So yes, gaming industry is in trouble right now. I am having more fun playing on the 360 right now than on this newer generation of consoles and I am not feeling that I am missing out on something…
I still think the PS2 generation was the best.
There are barely any new games being released!
who else Has Been buying so many 360 games Physically?
gen 6. is it even a debate?
The original sony playstation
Big release, Suicide Squad, it was just terrible
vhs sales are up lol
Flagging behind....
What game is playing in the vid
I hardly use my Series X or Ps5,
It’s because most games released have sucked.
New games are boring and lack luster they're few and far between as far as quality is concerned. Older games are so much better and fun. New games cost a mint and for the most part dont live up to the price. I've been playing so much ps3 recently this is my favourite generation of gaming and the peak of gaming.
Stellar blade rise of the ronin sold well tlou part 2 remastered
PS3 is the console king , always has and always will be.
Everyone playing Elden ring DLC
Are they?i dont know anyone playing it
Well EA sports all ways released there game like F1 and FC like F1 come out may but fc September
Too much this yhuur
Hey! Megadrive and snes
wokeness and microtransactions cocky game devs who think they better then us the same boring IPS like call of duty and assassin's creed are all the reasons and the lack of games this year and shown at the game fest