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What was the best year for video games?

>> No.8632936

When YOU the person about to post, were 10 to 15 years old.

>> No.8632942

Current year. Emulation is so, so good now.

>> No.8632949

What the fuck, how is PC generating more revenue than consoles? Does it really have that many more free-to-play, pay-to-win games? I thought they made them for all formats. Or is that the case, and the old pay-to-play games just don't generate the same revenue?

>> No.8632950

>>8632936
1995-1998 was pretty great

>> No.8632958

>>8632950
I've always been more of a fan of the 85-95 era myself, but yeah.. related to age.
could never get into the later 90s with its endless releases of WW2 shooters.

>> No.8632962

Whenever Sonic Adventure 2 came out.

>> No.8632963

>>8632936
2000 to 2005 wasn't so bad. Several of my favorites came out back then.

>> No.8632967

>>8632949
In the 80s, 8-bit and 16-bit computers were sold at a huge profit margin. C64 retailed for $595 even though they only cost around $150 per unit to manufacture. The Amiga 1200 was $1285 despite containing only like $250 worth of parts. Not to mention the data cassette, floppy, printer, monitor, and other add-ons. And there were computer game devs, who didn't need to pay huge comission fee to their publishers or the cart production, unlike console cucks. They sold $15 games on less than 50 cent floppy disks.

>> No.8632968

>handhelds gone
This is the worst timeline.

>> No.8632969

>Mobile
Those aren't really videogames, in the same way a crumpled up piece of paper isn't art. Sure, it meets the subjective pre-requisites, but it lacks meaning and merit.

>> No.8632970

>>8632969
in 5 years there will be Flappy Bird threads on this board

>> No.8632974

>>8632970
No there won't. No

>> No.8632975

>>8632949
>What the fuck, how is PC generating more revenue than consoles?
>First home platform to put cancerous multiplayer as priority over singleplayer
>First home platform to push muh grafix over anything else
>First home platform to start killing physical media (steam)
>First home platform to push "you can only install this game once" serial keys
>Yet PCfags blame consoles for all of the above

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>>8632975
>First home platform to push muh grafix over anything else
Maybe in the past, but not anymore. Sure they have muh RTX and muh 4K or whatever, but the best selling, most popular PC games will always be toasterware like Undertale or FNAF, because they can run on literally any computer. Ironically, the PC games with the best graphics are almost exclusively console ports. Really makes you think.

>> No.8633020

>>8632929
i'd probably give it to 1994, lot of good vidya that year
>>8632936
2012 to 2017 had some fun stuff but i mostly just played my old wii and ds games so more like 5 to 10 really

>> No.8633031

>>8633020
Please leave

>> No.8633032

>>8633031
2017 was 5 years ago i'm not underage b& :v

>> No.8633035

>>8633032
I know, but I asked nicely. I said please

>> No.8633067
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>>8632929
1996
Best Year For / vr /

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996_in_video_games#Notable_releases

>> No.8633082

>>8633035
1994 is an acceptable answer.

>> No.8633084

1998-2006

>> No.8633126

>>8632929
somewhere around 1998-1999 because that's when I played FFVII, MGS, and Resi Evil 2 in the space of like 6 months

>> No.8633191

>>8632929
Mobile gaming makes more than PC and Console COMBINED?
I weep for this industry bros. I fucking hate that’s the case, gaming is dead.
Good thing there is enough retro vidya to last a lifetime.

>> No.8633193

Now. Piracy and emulation have never been more accessible.

>> No.8633236

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/50-years-gaming-history-revenue-stream/
I wonder what sources they used for PC. Is it mostly Steam & itch.io? I'd lol @ including RetroArch's Patreon.
>>8632970
No one even cares about Bejeweled even though the first 2 fit the board.
>>8633191
The mobile market is just a ridiculous amount of money being shoveled into a few specific series like Candy Crush Saga, Clash of Clans, Pokemon GO & Angry Birds. Pokemon GO has gotten $1B+ in yearly revenue, but then, how was the chart calculated?

>> No.8633239
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>>8632929
1998 for absolutely fucking sure. So many groundbreaking god-tier games came out in '98 it's insane. I mean jesus, Ocarina of Time, Starcraft, and Gran Turismo all came out in the same year just to name a few. Remember being a kid back then and thinking every year would be that good before the industry went to shit and crushed our optimism like an ant? Fun times.

>> No.8633319

>>8632968
Mobile is a subset of handheld.

>> No.8633429

>>8633082
What’s your favorite game, loli-kun?

>> No.8633753

>>8632929
Is this infographic legit ?
PC is more profitable than all consoles combined ?
Console revenue SHRUNK during the first PlayStation era ?? Something's wrong.

>> No.8633787

>>8632975
Staggering amount of butthurt in this post.

>> No.8633797

>>8633753
>implies fortnite port as some kind of milestone movement
>while not mentioning a single gacha when that stuff is probably what comprises majority of mobile game revenue
Stuff like this renders it doubtful

>> No.8633798

>>8633753
The graph isn't showing it shrunk during ps era, but before it. It's showing growth, after a lull during the transition between 4th and 5th.

>> No.8633802

>>8633797
>milestone movement
I mean moment

>> No.8633808

>>8633797
>magazine picks arbitrary milestones that pander to its readers or reflect the biases of the editors
Wow shocking. Doesn't say anything about the accuracy of the data.

>> No.8633816

>>8632929
In my childhood. And no, its not blind nostalgia. It is just a huge coincidence that the best games ever made was played by my child self during childhood.

>> No.8633853

Fuck mobile gaming

>> No.8633892

>>8632936
i'm 28 and i've always known that's when it was all going down the shitter

>> No.8633898

>>8633787
hes right though

>> No.8633902

>>8632936
That would be 2008, I don't fucking think so.
Games before 2005 were way better

>> No.8633909

>>8632936
kek, holy fucking projection. Gaming was the best when I was 15 to 20 if anything

>> No.8633926

>>8632958
>could never get into the later 90s with its endless releases of WW2 shooters
This seems more like an early 2000s thing to me, and then mostly on the PS2.

>>8633236
I had Bejeweled on my Palm m515. It was a great way to pass time when you were waiting for a bus or something, but I would never be sitting at home and think “gee where’s my Palm Pilot, I could really go for a game of Bejeweled right now”. The reason why is that mobile gaming, even back before the FTP, PTW nonsense, was just a time-wasting wank.

>> No.8633961

>>8632929
weird chart it doesn't even show countless of free flash games
who gives a fuck about revenue I'm not a company

>> No.8633964

>>8633898
Not really. There's some truth but it's mostly disengenuos biased phrasing. Motivated by butthurt, probably from being called a consolebaby at some point in an offhand manner.

>> No.8633967

1987

>> No.8633970

>>8633961
best post in the whole thread

>> No.8634352

>>8632970
>Flappy Bird
there isn't even anything to talk about.
just look at /vg/ threads, it's just gachafags spamming their waifus. mobile games have nothing of value in them.

>> No.8634448

>>8634352
Gacha zoomers are the lowest caste of society. Buying jpegs is peak retard.

>> No.8634476

>>8632968
The entire category was just "Nintendo's latest device," which is now the hybrid console Switch.

>> No.8634619

>>8632929
92/93/94 desu

>> No.8634661
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8634661

When I was 12 years old

>> No.8634734

>>8632929
>population explosion and dirt cheap tech everywhere
>revenue hasn't even tripled since 1980

really makes you think

>> No.8634871

>>8634734
And that's with them homogenizing games into soulless "appeals to everyone/noone" trash and bringing china into the market.

>> No.8634945

>>8632936
No sir, not at all. 2004-2009 isn't exactly a golden age whatsoever. That's when I started noticing things getting worse, at 10-11.

>> No.8634946

>>8632962
Based based based

>> No.8635275

>>8632936
but anon i was 3 in '98

>>8632942
>>8632942
this is cheating playing old games in the current year doesnt mean that games are good now.

>> No.8635280

>>8635275
oh i cant count i was 5

>> No.8635440

>>8635275
>this is cheating
That's zoomers for you, ask them what 5 games they'd bring to a deserted island and they'd try to weasel in a "mame collection" like its one thing.
Zoomies love bending stuff, gender bending and rule bending.

>> No.8635443

>>8632949
you can do anything on pc

>> No.8635619

weird, I would have thought it would be a steady increase.
pc gaming shank in the late 80's
console gaming shrank for a bit in the mid 90's
I thought pc gaming shrank during the mmo fad but it was steady, I would have thought it would have increased a lot when steam came around.
The perception was that sega and nintendo were babies and sony opened up the market.

>> No.8635626

Probably '98 - '04, I'd say. If it has to be less, - '02, but if it can be more, I'd include '05 as well. Lifetimes of the GBC, Wonderswan family, and NGP+C made for the perfect trifecta of old portables with their own niches and wonderful color pixels is one of the biggest reasons why. Dreamcast and Gamecube's summer vacation feel alone bring in the best out of consoles, but with the PS2 being the PS2, and then the Xbox being the Dreamcast 2 in many ways? Felt amazing. Virtua Fighter 4 I especially remember for wowing me with how it looked. Great time.

>> No.8635629

>>8633909
it doesnt count if you were 10 during pong you fucking fossil.

>> No.8635685

>>8632929
the current year, because we have access to everything from the past

>> No.8635734

>>8632929
2022 because I get to emulate everything with relative ease

>> No.8635970

>>8635734
the ability to emulate 98% of the world's game library is nice but it's a still a limited pool of unchanging games, the industry is stagnant

it's like being some dark ages pleb staring at the ruins of ancient roman cities

>> No.8637678

>>8632929
>handheld doesn’t include switch
Retarded chart

>> No.8637681

>>8635970
It isn't anything like the dark ages at all you ungrateful wiener

>> No.8637779

>>8632936
no, 2013 was pretty bad honestly

>> No.8637869

>>8632929
1991, 1994, 1997, 1998 are the best years in the 90’s.
2001, and 2004 for the 00’s.
1985, 1987, and 1988 for the 80’s.

>> No.8637974

>>8635970
>it's like being some dark ages pleb staring at the ruins of ancient roman cities

True, a lot of younger gamers can't possibly understand how magical gaming felt during the 8bit and 16 bit era.
You can't compare being all alone in your bedroom and playing Chrono Trigger on your phone to sitting in front of a big glowing crt tv with friends and playing Rock & Roll Racing or Street Fighter II while your third buddy is reading that EGM you brought with you.
There was more to it than just the "romz"

>> No.8638951

>>8632936
Wrong, was born in 92. Best era is snes, turbografx, genesis, neo geo, ps1

>> No.8639016

>>8632975
>>First home platform to start killing physical media (steam)
>nooo noooo nooo!

>> No.8639026
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8639026

>>8632936
FPBP

>> No.8639134

>>8639026
>words words words words words words words words...

Why even both with the comic format if you're going to write a novel anyway.

>> No.8639152

>>8639134
> t. clip thinking zoomer who can't read anything longer than a twitter post

>> No.8639513

>>8638951
You give me hope for the future little zoomie.

>> No.8640082

>>8639026
Imaging outing yourself as a midwit by posting that garbage.

>> No.8640086

>>8637681
Actually, its exactly like the dark ages, because alot of gaming shit from this era will truly end up being lost to time on account on being digital only, or requiring hefts of updates and requiring an online presence just to even play them. Preservation will be a bitch but no one will bother because most modern games suck.

>> No.8640098

>>8635629
>nuh-uh, that doesn't count!
shut up, you imbecile

>> No.8640106

>>8640086
You're talking about something completely different than the guy I replied to was. And frankly, I don't think that preservation of modern games will be that bad going forward either. Even if interstitial builds of games won't be entirely preserved, patch notes will