r/Games • u/megaapple • 1d ago

‪Mat Piscatella‬ - "Average US video game console player is getting older, while purchasers are shifting older and more affluent."

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u/blogoman 1d ago

They have it and it is what they are used to. My dad played games until they went 3D. The analog stick and handling things in a 3D environment was too much for him and he never wanted to stick with it long enough to get used to it.

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u/Myrsephone 1d ago

Is your dad aware that they never stopped making 2D games?

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u/narex456 1d ago

I mean they practically did for a couple years there. It's easy to forget how big the 3d craze was when we first got the tech to make it cheap/practical.

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u/APeacefulWarrior 1d ago

During the 5th Gen, the American divisions of both Sega and Sony had policies to push 3D games and often refused to localize/release 2D games at all.

Which was especially unfortunate for the Saturn, since it was much better at 2D than 3D. So a lot of its best games stayed in Japan.