Gaming is in a great place. AAA gaming is not, because of-fucking-course corpos don't understand art.

I wonder if this is a huge demotion for the AI guy. AI teams in Microsoft are "good" right now, I wonder if he fucked up in some way and they put him on xbox.

A silver lining is that the NVIDIA/OpenAI deal was cut by ~70% this week, so hopefully the reality of AI not being a panacea sets in for those who have been driving the prices up. If the planned data centers never actually get built, production will shift back and consumer pricing should adjust accordingly. The MBA class will keep trying to manipulate it artificially of course, but they'll only be able to keep the ruse this far from reality for so long.

Xbox is just going to be a brand/publisher I reckon.

There’ll be ‘Xbox verified’ console PCs or somesuch that aren’t necessarily made by Microsoft, and there’ll be the Xbox app for games and streaming, and Xbox published games.

And then another 5-10 years later they’ll phase that out and just be ‘Microsoft Gaming’ or somesuch branded, and the last traces of Xbox will be gone.

Gaming is most definitely not in a dark place right now

Steamdeck, Gaming on Linux, indie games, Arc Raiders, skies are blue and the sun is shining my friend

I see it as a good thing, maybe another videogame market crash is exactly what we need so they'll understand that not every game needs to have an overblown budget, bloated content, micro transactions, massive player retention, sell a billion copies and win awards to be a good game, it's about time videogames are recognized as being pieces of art first and products second