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The games industry is absolutely screwed, isn’t it?

What you mean you aren't looking forward to paying £2,000 for the next Playstation so you can rent the latest version of a franchise that plays exactly like the last six installments except now all the assets are LLM slop?

Started the Metaphor: Refantazio prologue demo on Switch 2. Still bloody love this game.

Nintendo are also sitting on a shitload of cash, and have mascot characters that reliably sell merchandise by the boat-load. They're likely to be affected by component shortages and price increases as well—if the manufacturers keep chasing the LLM dragon, the lower-end chips that Nintendo might be looking at could very well dry up—but less so in the short-term, for sure.

Microsoft seem determined to kill Xbox, death-by-a-thousand-cuts-style, with no apparent regard for, interest in, or understanding of the value of their studios. Playstation are lumbering from fuckup to fuckup at a slightly slower pace than Xbox, but it feels like they're still taking turns at who can generate the most sickening headline. Frankly, I wouldn't be all that sorry if either (or both) of them just fucked off.

That first week I must've got about 2 hours sleep and was jut sitting in dirty underpants with a glazed expression, drool hanging down my youthful chin.

And then you started playing the game!

But at least they saved Kojima Productions, eh?