Gaming will never be the same again. We'll just have to admit that now. Everyone on this site will eventually say something along the lines of "let's just stop thinking about the whole "AAA" concept and review scores and play our damn games", but is it gonna happen? God no. Those days are long gone and everyday from here on will be review analysts, unreasonable fanboy logic, and endless debates that go nowhere and don't have a point. Sounds harsh and bleak, but it's reality.
Let's talk about the wii. I don't own a wii. I've considered getting one, but I don't own one. The wii and it's fan base are looked at as some sort of confusing phenomenon. It's criticized for it's noticeable inferior hardware and overwhelmingly "casual" game selection. They often revolve around mini games, party games, etc basically a carnival theme. Not much work is put into storyline, mature themes, and the hardware isn't strong enough to innovate on visuals.
Let me ask you something though. How many "casuals" are on this site everyday flaming everyday about a review for a game, available only on a system they don't even own? How many casuals do you know take pride in the fact that a company they have no stock in whatsoever, sold the most amount of units that month? What do you think casuals do all day? Go to work, go outside, talk to their girlfriend, play games, watch a movie, do their...wait wait wait. What was that? Oh yes, play games. The only thing casuals do related to games..is playing the damn games. That's what you're supposed to do remember?
Here's something blatantly obvious, that you're fully aware of, but probably haven't acknowledged at a conscious level yet: It is not a personal accomplishment for the system you own to be selling the most consoles. You bought the console, you play the games, that's it. You're not getting millions from it, it's not your doing that the consoles sold that much, and the other console you don't own selling less than it won't put you through college.
I swear if any of you tried to pull the stuff you do on the internets with someone not involved with any of this crap they'd look at you like you were retarded. Because you/we are retarded. None of this is getting us anywhere. I make this blog being fully aware, that no matter how many letters I type it's only gonna get worst. We're never gonna be able to fully enjoy games like we did when we were a kid because we're not just playing for OUR enjoyment anymore. It's not as personal as it was before, because now we're considering all of this other useless crap. Have fun. Oh wait..I think someone posted a Ninja Gaiden 2 review. Let's all LOL @ the 7's.
Microsoft announced its financial results for Q3 of fiscal year 2026, including an update on its gaming Xbox business and more.
Not looking good. Hopefully Asha Sharma is able to turn Phil’s disaster around.
To me it's still quite remarkable how they can cash-in 5.3bn in revenue in a single quarter, since their hardware is basically dead.
The stock mark is what makes Microsoft remarkable, They have convinced every institutional and retail investor to just keep piling money into them. Like many big tech giants they are just a big growing pyramid scheme. As long as people keep dropping money into ETF's that cover the market Microsoft will always be liquid. At the same time it is completely stifling innovation and competition. People need to start being more discreet in how they invest their money as it's killing the system.
Riiiiight because people will just flock back to them for one or two games per year.
15+ years of bad performance is what they call irreparable in business. It is time for them to sell off the assets and get out of entertainment.
These declines are on the back of extra revenue received from releasing games like Forza horizon 5 on PlayStation. So I’m being sarcastic here when I said they should go back to exclusives. Killing off a revenue stream from Ps5 sales will only make things worse
The charity event will be streamed live from Gamescom in August.
Thanks to the slip-up of an artist working on the title, we now have more evidence that a new Injustice game is in the works.
People are too bent on making their console of choice seem supreme.
Fun is a fleeting thing, it runs. Get off your N4G a** and go get some.
Disclaimer: This is my advice for me, not you, haha.
R.I.P. Fun? Definitely not.
"None of this is getting us anywhere"
It really don't have to take us anywhere. All the consoles tech and games
debates are simply a heated restatement of our society in doing progress
on technology. No progress on technology, no debates.
It's also a documentation of how technology influences the public. Two
hundred years from now all the debates will give a good overview of what
was the spirit of our time. And not only two hundred years from now, if you
become an old man then you may tell all of today's exciting stuff to a
younger follower, replying to you; This must be the time. :)
It's fun all the way long.
Well apparently you weren't a gamer in the SNES/Genesis days, or else you wouldn't have made this blog. Fanboys and pointless console debates have been around forever, its nothing new.
I was born 1990. I've been playing games since the original nes. I just wasn't involved with the console war thing. I didn't know it existed to be honest.