Switch 2 Prices

Some of them will do that anyway, speaking for me personally though if I do get the Switch 2 it is probably going to be a few years or so in its life cycle. I should thank these video game companies stupid decision for saving me so much money.

Ikr

If it is not companies being greedy short sighted scum bags, it is the woke preaching and female character uglification. A 1983 style gaming crash will probably happen in the near future, but I am getting impatient and want it to happen now already so we can clean all this up.

But then that means the uprooting of the whole video game industry

The game was flooded was shovelware and practically everyone and their little brother had a videogame console and it all came to a head in 1983 with the Gaming Crash. Nintendo came out as the big winners in that with the success of the NES and Sega soon joined them with the success of the Sega Genesis which started the Console Wars. The 83 gaming crash was a necessary market correction to bad practices that were prevalent in the years leading up to it.

Well I knew that but the genesis wouldn’t come out until 1988/9

True, though it was still influenced by the circumstances surrounding the 83 correction. Sega had a prior console called the Master System, but it was not successful in Japan or America (but was in Europe and Brazil). Sega learned from its mistakes and corrected them with the Genesis.

What, in the sense that sega was making a new home computer for the market, but switched to console development as soon as they heard about the famicom’s impending release? That culminated in the s-1000, which used cartridges, but later shifted to cards, like the turbografx-16/pc engine and the s-1000’s third model was just the earlier Japanese version of the master system, where it was a big flop, but somehow still got localised, in the form of the master system, where nonetheless, it was still a flop, albeit successful in Europe and South America(essentially just Brazil) as you said. Sega saw the issues in the master system and fixed them with some next-gen elements to make the Genesis. Unfortunately, sega probably went delusional with the successes of the genesis, and released the Saturn with some of the issues the master system had, even the Dreamcast released later wouldn’t be safe from the failures that the Saturn had suffered from, and carried on.

The lesson with Sega is complacency can cause some epic falls. The Dreamcast had a lot of potential, but Sega made way too many mistakes for that to happen and had to exit the console race. Perhaps history will repeat itself and Nintendo could one day become a third party developer like Sega has been since the downfall of the Dreamcast. They could also suffer a fate far more grim if things get bad enough, that is probably what is what may be in store for Ubisoft and possibly even Sony.

But I think Xbox might be going through this process now because their 9th gen sales have been absolute shit

Practically no one has cared about Xbox for years, not even Microsoft. Most of their games are also available for PC, so there is not point in getting one. Microsoft should transition to just making PC games and drop the woke crap.

I think the bigger problem is Microsoft buying whole game companies and laying them off due to production costs just they could (intentionally/unintentionally)-(You decide that) obtain the IPs owned by them.