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On Fri, 29 Aug 2025 23:31:27 -0000 (UTC), [email protected] (Ant)
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I am glad I don't PC game much like I used to!

There's a related article (well, editorial) here* about the possible
long-term consequences of this: mainly, the high price of hardware is encouraging younger gamers to stick almost entirely to mobile gaming.
Why bother buying a PC or console when you can get the same experience
on your phone... which you already have.

And once they're hooked on mobile gaming, it's much harder to get
those gamers to move over to gaming machines later on. People stick
with what they know and what they have.

So its quite possible that consoles (and to a lesser degree, PCs)
are... well, maybe not on life-support, but have a limited lifespan as
the current users age up and die out. Which means we might see
big-name publishers and developers increasingly focus on mobile rather
than the older platforms that were traditionally their main
money-makers... just because that's where the audience is.

What a horrible future. I hope it doesn't come true.






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* well, _here_ actually** https://www.gamesindustry.biz/console-pricing-has-gone-terribly-wrong-opinion



** you know, if there's /one/ thing I dislike about Usenet, it's the
inability to make transparent hyperlinks to a web-page in an article.
Sure, I /could/ just add the URL to my responses directly, but given
how long modern URLs are these days, that makes things look very messy
(that's why I usually put the URLs in footnotes like the one above).
But I almost wish NNTP had a feature where I could have made the word
"here" the link itself.***


*** of course, I know if that actually were made a feature, it would
probably lead to link-spam and even more pointless 'me-too' style
responses, so Usenet is probably better off the way it is now ****



**** I've run out of footnotes to add to my footnotes. You're welcome.
;-)



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From Newsgroup: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action

I do play more quick games (thinking type) in my iPhone than my PC.


Spalls Hurgenson <[email protected]> wrote:

There's a related article (well, editorial) here* about the possible long-term consequences of this: mainly, the high price of hardware is encouraging younger gamers to stick almost entirely to mobile gaming.
Why bother buying a PC or console when you can get the same experience
on your phone... which you already have.

And once they're hooked on mobile gaming, it's much harder to get
those gamers to move over to gaming machines later on. People stick
with what they know and what they have.

So its quite possible that consoles (and to a lesser degree, PCs)
are... well, maybe not on life-support, but have a limited lifespan as
the current users age up and die out. Which means we might see
big-name publishers and developers increasingly focus on mobile rather
than the older platforms that were traditionally their main
money-makers... just because that's where the audience is.

What a horrible future. I hope it doesn't come true.

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* well, _here_ actually** https://www.gamesindustry.biz/console-pricing-has-gone-terribly-wrong-opinion

** you know, if there's /one/ thing I dislike about Usenet, it's the inability to make transparent hyperlinks to a web-page in an article.
Sure, I /could/ just add the URL to my responses directly, but given
how long modern URLs are these days, that makes things look very messy (that's why I usually put the URLs in footnotes like the one above).
But I almost wish NNTP had a feature where I could have made the word
"here" the link itself.***

*** of course, I know if that actually were made a feature, it would
probably lead to link-spam and even more pointless 'me-too' style
responses, so Usenet is probably better off the way it is now ****

**** I've run out of footnotes to add to my footnotes. You're welcome.
;-)

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