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The more I look at modern gaming and the culture around it, the more I like playing my N64, alone.

I can't imagine I'm unique, though there are far too many people committed to new shiny to see this create the drop in active users necessary to lead to changes.

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FWIW: I think this is true for modern AAA gaming, but the independent game industry seems to doing much better.

Some of the biggest hits this year - like Baldur's Gate 3 and Helldivers 2 - came from independent developers (Larian Studios [1] and ArrowHead Studios [2], respectively).

That being said, I think that the "discourse" in gaming communities online seems to be full of people who are frothing at the mouth over this, that, or the other thing. It makes going online to talk about games a miserable experience sometimes.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larian_Studios [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrowhead_Game_Studios

Helldivers was published by Sony, which created some issues as Sony tried to force a PS account login on all users, regardless of their platform.

So yay ArrowHead, but they're wedded to the same devil that's pushing ads on their platform.

That’s pretty common these days. Not n64 but the gaming market is dominated by a few new gems (Elden ring, Baldus Gate) some live service games like Fortnite and all timers like Minecraft and then people just keep playing old games. Like Skyrim or the older fall outs and things like this.

Its gotten pretty difficult to actually get your game sold these days.

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