I cant wait to get my crypto based porn casino Xbox game.
Gaming has gotten so huge that investors want to target the most lucrative segments of their market. It’s not that you can’t make money with games. It’s that exploiting addiction is better at wealth extraction.
lmao they are blaming anything but their ridiculous online membership prices. nintendo has no problem selling consoles and games
As if Nintendo doesn’t fuck over their consumers
Classic Microsoft, hire a competent person to make the unit great and then proceed to sabotage everything.
Even if you like all 3 of the other things, it doesn’t mean you need it in gaming. It’s not as though porn thinks it needs to blend in other attention competitions. A lot of games have math overlap. Gambling is for conning people bad at math.
In summary, this all seems like bad directions.
Gambling is for
conning people bad at mathexploiting people with poor impulse controland gambling addiction is a serious issue that can’t be dismissed so easily
Gambling has nothing to do with understanding probability or not.
Of course it does. If you understand probability, you won’t do it.
That’s like arguing that people wouldn’t smoke or do drugs if they knew the effects it has.
The report isn’t trying to say they need to add those thing to gaming.
I don’t understand how this whole thread has misunderstood the report point so thoroughly…
The report is saying those 3 things are now more popular and have a higher amount of attention given to them than gaming and that publishers need to do better in order regain attention.
The prior parts of the report deal with how publishers have effectively cancelled and shut down so much that there is little to play.
That doesn’t really seem like mutually-exclusive stuff.
You can definitely make video games that incorporate pornography.
Gambling is probably also generally-available, though some locales have pretty restrictive law on online gambling.
I don’t know about crypto, but if “crypto” in this context is effectively “gambling by trying to trade cryptocurrencies”, I’d think that that basically falls into the gambling category.
The article also mentions TikTok. I don’t know how readily you can do that — TikTok is maybe the closest analog to television in the Internet era, and video games are something you actively participate in. It might be possible to introduce categories of mostly-passive video games, where the player has some limited degree of interactivity but is mostly watching what’s going on, and where there aren’t hard real-time demands on their attention. Like, a game that you can viably play while simultaneously eating dinner or something.
Auto-play mobile games not only already exist but are super popular.
as a matter of fact. forget the crypto.
ah yes, the new Xbox. with blackjack and hookers.
scratch that, just play blackjack and fuck hookers.
Well, Microsoft. It’s been fun. 🫡
I want gaming to be a health business that makes it long term but going after crackheads addicted to gambling, porn, and get rich quick schemes ain’t it
I bet crack cocaine is more addictive & attention grabbing too
It is an interesting report.
https://issuu.com/ballmatthew/docs/gaming2025_vee10?fr=xIAEoAT3_MzMz
Just look at Stellaris, Factorio or Rimworld players to know this is false. What modern games are clearly missing is genocide and crimes against humanity.
Been playing Stellaris since literal day one. Quality of new dlc had gone down, but there is definitely heart and soul put into it.
As a player of Stellaris, Stellaris players are crazy. They spend too much money on the games on DLC, that game has like more than $500 in DLC probably. Its insane.
I just play multiplayer with someone who… acquired… the DLC lol.
They spend too much money on the games on DLC, that game has like more than $500 in DLC probably. Its insane.
The Sims 4 is currently up to $1,596.89 with all DLC on Steam.
DCS is up to $4,368.28 with all DLC on Steam (though in fairness, I think that it’s very likely that almost all players are not getting all planes, but rather picking specific ones that they’re interested in playing, and a lot of that is different planes.)
Oh I am fully aware. I have DCS too. I think I bought the game and the P51 Mustang on a sale, but I haven’t been able to fly anything esle because I ain’t buying all that and I don’t have the time with other games to care about it honestly.
What an odd statement. Xbox is in direct competition with porn and crypto? Do they know any of those things? Do they think people are just like “hm, 60 dollars. I could game, buy porn, or crypto. Hmmmmmm”
Anything to avoid looking inward. Their IPs have empty corporate souls because they’re made by souless corporate entities. Halo, Gears, Starfield, all shallow empty stories, and gamers are tired of it.
Of course they don’t have souls so they assume gamers don’t either. Couldn’t be that were gaming to enjoy a story or feel something deeply, no we’re literally debating on gambling or video games. Jesus Christ so out of touch.
let’s be real: it’s not a coincidence that sports gambling is an exploding market and sports games are shrinking. they are targeting the same people.
I’ll concede there, sports gaming and sports gaming are very overlapping venn diagrams
They just hired this guy, and he made those statements before that, so it’s not avoiding looking inward. Besides there very much is a customer they’re losing to these other things, and they’re the largest market segment in gaming. It’s just not your demographic.
I don’t want to play games that compare and compete to gambling, crypto and porn. Sounds like bad games to me. Good games don’t care about gambling and crypto.
