The days of gaming as a hobby only for young people are clearly over. Unlike in the past, gamers are now sticking with console and PC games into adulthood and old age. Consumers aged 55+ account for almost...
…instead of the more respectable, non western, way of “just forget that people until they die”?
Don’t expect the AAA industry to do anything else than the usual CoD and Fortnite for children… but honestly, I hope the indie market to catch up this promising share of elderly gamers and making interesting products that catch their attention. If things go well, it mean that even I (also " you" and everybody else playing videogames) will have fresh deliver in gaming-adventure experience even as may grow older.
Hold on, there. That’s a bit presumptuous. The west is a bit unique, in that everything needs to be “liberalised” (or privatised), and at the end of that chain is usually a ton of consultancy fees and subpar living conditions for grandma.
My family decided outright not to leave great grandma at the tender mercies of the local old folks home, and I get told by various non-westerners that we treat our old like shit. Some Kenyans say outright that we should be ashamed.
(Incoming political rant, you may ignore.)
!But then again, boomers did help to foster the authoritarian geopolitical stance of the US, France and the UK, which ultimately has lead to debt traps for entire countries and the CIA overthrowing governments like it’s a sport. Y’know, the capitalists who gladly exported manufacturing and fabrication to communist China so they could utilise slavery to build their economy, the very same “neo-liberal” or “classical liberal” (i.e “extra nationalism in my bowl, please”) nutbags who are now harping on about bringing fabrication and manufacturing home again, despite the fact that they are also anti-protectionism… I hope they mean they want to leave slavery behind, but I doubt it, because the cognitive dissonance is just to fucking high. Perhaps it is in some ways selv deserved, but rich boomers get it easy, while poor boomers get to suffer.
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In any case, millennial grandma’s and grandad’s will get to enjoy similar psy-ops that grandma and granddads get today, in that they’ll be blasted with political propaganda so they’ll vote “correctly”, using fear of the foreign and traditionalism as a prod to shake an aging individuals existentialism. Y’know, exploiting the hell out of old people. Maybe even have digital tithing. The AI Preacher can bless your match for one $5,99.
…instead of the more respectable, non western, way of “just forget that people until they die”?
Don’t expect the AAA industry to do anything else than the usual CoD and Fortnite for children… but honestly, I hope the indie market to catch up this promising share of elderly gamers and making interesting products that catch their attention. If things go well, it mean that even I (also " you" and everybody else playing videogames) will have fresh deliver in gaming-adventure experience even as may grow older.
Hold on, there. That’s a bit presumptuous. The west is a bit unique, in that everything needs to be “liberalised” (or privatised), and at the end of that chain is usually a ton of consultancy fees and subpar living conditions for grandma.
My family decided outright not to leave great grandma at the tender mercies of the local old folks home, and I get told by various non-westerners that we treat our old like shit. Some Kenyans say outright that we should be ashamed.
(Incoming political rant, you may ignore.)
In any case, millennial grandma’s and grandad’s will get to enjoy similar psy-ops that grandma and granddads get today, in that they’ll be blasted with political propaganda so they’ll vote “correctly”, using fear of the foreign and traditionalism as a prod to shake an aging individuals existentialism. Y’know, exploiting the hell out of old people. Maybe even have digital tithing. The AI Preacher can bless your match for one $5,99.