The last few days have brought some bad news regarding Xbox and PlayStation that has likely hit many players hard. MeinMMO’s editor-in-chief Leya Jankowski sat down with GameStar to talk about the future of gaming.
What is this talk about? The last days and weeks have not been easy for gaming fans. While Sony announced that it will stop producing physical PlayStation discs starting in 2028, Xbox announced over 3000 layoffs. There is a lot to read about the future of gaming from this.
MeinMMO’s editor-in-chief Leya Jankowski, GameStar’s editor-in-chief Heiko Klinge, and moderator Michael Graf, also from GameStar, discussed this in a talk.
You can watch the whole conversation here:
The current situation shows: Gaming is going to change
What exactly is the talk about? The latest news regarding PlayStation and Xbox is only part of a larger crisis that the industry is currently undergoing. In addition to the restructuring and layoffs, there is currently a hardware problem. Manufacturing costs are getting more expensive, and accordingly, the prices of consoles will rise (which they already are).
Michael Graf believes that the next consoles will land in a higher price range than the current generation: So we are easily talking about over 1000 dollars or euros up to 1500.
It could be that Xbox will revive its old All Access-
strategy, a kind of console subscription where you also subscribe to the hardware.
Heiko Klinge also discusses the main reason for the current hardware crisis in the talk, which is the AI boom. He hopes that this AI bubble will eventually burst and that better times may come again in the future.
But not only hardware is currently facing problems, software is too. Due to rising development costs, AAA games are becoming increasingly risky. Leya Jankowski believes that AAA gaming will become a luxury item when considering how expensive hardware and software are becoming:
There will actually be a divide, that there will be people who can afford it and there will be people who are more in the indie sector. […] And fantastic games are also being created there, that must be said.
For AAA gaming, it will be more difficult to become cheaper, as the budgets are also getting larger and need to be profitable. As Leya explains, however, all these crises also offer an opportunity, especially for the medium and the creativity behind it:
So from my perspective, this AAA model is breaking apart. The entire industry is massively restructuring. […] This also creates room for new ideas. It makes space for creatives, and that is also the trend we are currently seeing, that many who no longer want to deal with exactly that are splitting off, founding new studios.
Overall, while the current developments are bad for the state of the current gaming industry, there is still hope and opportunities for the crisis to transform again.
What do you think about the current developments? Are you still playing AAA games or are you leaning more towards smaller games? Feel free to share your thoughts on the topic in the comments. Another sad news was the end of Destiny 2: “The state of Destiny 2 and the disappointment is due to one person only: Bungie itself.” – MeinMMO in the GameStar talk
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