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Game developers are still feeling the pull of last-generation consoles (www.gamedeveloper.com)

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

In my country the big box stores are starting to pull videogames from shelves.

You go to Mediaworld (equivalent to best buy) and all you see is a sad shelf with a switch lite and 3 Mario games. Sometimes you see some playstation accessories. Xbox is completely missing.

Same in other countries??

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I'm in Canada and it's not quite so dire. But I have noticed we are only getting like "main" titles in stores. If I go into a gamestop, their Xbox and play station sections are a quarter of what they were in 2008. The switch is in a much better state with a lot more physical copies (my guess is kids go into stores with their parents and ask for games, so it makes sense to have more physical copies).

I'm really torn because I like physical copies, but I'm also literally running out of living space. Additionally, so many games have patches with bug fixes on day 1. I've also been finding online has much steeper sales.

I kinda feel like the shift to online screws us all, though. Idk I'm just a giant ball of being conflicted about it lol