Yes & No

If I wanted to watch a movie I'd do that instead.

Now, if you said, do video games need gameplay?

Apparently not, some of the games being praised and awarded today have little to no interactivity at all.. It's getting scary out here.

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I'm currently killing monsters on bloodborne
and killing people all over again in Drakes fortune.

We just love to fight/kill.

all hope isn't lost.
gaming is so great now, you can watch a movie like Until Dawn.

I cant really think of an alternative. All the games I love have combat in one form or another.

There are tons of great games that do not have any combat, so no.

Depends on the genre, really.

Portal, Thalos Principle, valiant hearts, tetris and other puzzle games, walking dead (both seasons) are a handful of games that get it right with immersing people. Maybe not the puzzle games, but there's a way to grab a person and combat is not the way.

It all depends...

some games have no combat and do extremely well.

some games have combat and do extremely well.

It's all subjective when you stop and think about it.

But I would be the first to argue that there is combat and/or shooter fatigue just like there is open-world fatigue..

Plenty of times I've played other stuff because I was tired of shooting/killing enemies..

Some people just want to mix it up.

Kind of a strange question since there are many games that don't, on the other side there will always be a market for game that do.

Of course they don't need combat. However, they need a fail state. One needs to be able to lose for it to be a game. It's the ever-present threat of that fail state that propels the player to learn the ins and outs of the gameplay and become engrossed in the experience. This is where I feel a few little developers go off the rails and make interactive experiences instead of video games.

No they don't. You have whole genres that don't rely on combat as much as others.

Over 50% is PC. RE9 was the same

From this moment henceforth, Xbox hardware shall simply just exist but have no significant bearing from a business standpoint or from a gamer culture standpoint. It will simply be there for the people that want to have it and that's fine if they're selling it at a high price and actually making money off each sale.

But they should never ever again be Xbox fanboys anymore than they should be Lenovo laptop fanboys it's just a piece of hardware that exists to serve a purpose for niche group of people.

I’ll say this. Cyberpunk had a tumultuous start on console. Even if it had sold like crazy, that whole almost unplayable fiasco and being given no questions asked refunds made a lot of people not look back.
When it comes to PC, people are a lot more forgiving of things like that, especially on Steam, because of the return policy. I really think console manufacturers should implement the exact same refund policy. Was it played under X time? Refund it. It makes people take that risk on games a LOT more than on console. Bought this game and it was broken? Refund it. They said they fixed it 3 months later? Buy it again. It’s fixed but just not fun? Refund it. On console you don’t have that luxury. Was it downloaded? GG. No refund. Lord knows my Steam library is full of “I’ll try it” games that I loved and I’m glad I can take a rush on. On console, specifically PlayStation because I’m not buying Xbox games, I take calculated risk. Known developers. Shinobi, Ninja Gaiden ragebound, stuff like that. Obviously big exclusives and games too. I would have never tried Little Bookstore on PlayStation, but on Steam… why not? Hellish Quart? Why not. Buckshot Roulette? Why not.

this is why console sales matter, folks.

Never gonna complain at this especially as I havent played the PS5 version yet. Give me a Pro patch 😂😂

They're finally fixing the godawful inventory system? Yes!