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PSVR2 died because it’s not backwards compatible with PSVR1.


Half Life Alyx is like if we got Super Mario 64, and then four years later the games influenced by it just didn’t come.


The thing is, we know Nintendo does have in-house developed emulators that they used for Virtual Console and then NSO and the Classic Edition.

It’s fairly likely they didn’t take the effort to port those to PC for the museum, but still.


Minecraft is mostly popular with people who were 5 - 12 years old 10 years ago.


I think it’s most likely that more people are playing genres like platformers and fighting games that are designed for controllers on PC than before.


Michael Eisner once called himself “the last of the creative types in Hollywood” after he left Disney, and I can’t help but see what he meant when he said that when I look at the current American film and TV landscape. It’s like today’s Hollywood bigwigs don’t even understand why people watch TV and movies.

I kinda think this happened to Western video games too (yeah Sony is a Japanese company…but PlayStation has shown a pretty square focus on the Western market in the past 10 years.) From a consumer perspective I don’t think a new CEO is the answer. It wasn’t for Disney’s fans with Bob Chapek.


No, GameMaker Studio. That engine had it’s own controversy over moving to a subscription model, but nothing as egregious as Unity.