Woot! Maybe he should design standup consoles that provide 3-5 minutes of gameplay for a small deposit like 25 cents … GTA frogger but this time you’re the car trying to squash as many frogs as possible.
Self-reply: obviously I was sarcastic about that — and the rise of home consoles and computers was the end of the arcade.
I absolutely understand why a game company would desperately want to return to non-ownership and continuous revenue stream. Probably beats “now buy Madden 2024 to replace your Madden 2023 with minimal code updates and new skins and names” (or GTA XXII or whatever in this case) especially in the woke-world where one syllable brings the cancel mob in to ruin you.
On the consumer side, though, there’s a different thought. Between still-great older or even freeware games, games with long play value, and Bidenomics, a game has to offer big value to be worth any money, and fewer people have or want to have tons of time and money to sink into entertainment of any sort.
This guy should be counting his blessings that woke movies and idiot amusement parks are tanking so people are even looking for a bit of fun, not trying to figure out how to turn every last moment into a (literally) taxing experience.