The backdrop is that electronic prices aren’t dropping the way they used to so you just can’t expect progression like PS2 -> PS3 -> PS4 -> PS5. The game software industry did not expect this trend when it was developing games 5 years ago and wound up with a generation of new games that require more expensive hardware than the typical gamer has.

Meta can’t announce an MQ4 when the MQ3 consumer is cost-motivated and instead of an MQ4 they came out with a cost-reduced MQ3S which is the brains of an MQ3 (software compatible) in the body of an MQ2.

The story is that Meta is looking for some escape from oldster-dominant Facebook but when I started focusing on the social features I met a lot of retirees who play Beat Saber and like to go on cruises and post pano videos on YouTube. I don’t think it helps with their demographic problems.

I have a big backlog of VR games which are similar to conventional video games, these are fun and all but they compete with so many flat games like Hollow Knight: Silksong and Arknights and such.