2020 is changing gaming and no one noticed

Any way you look at it, 2020 was going to be a big year for gaming. The release of a new generation of consoles always heralds major transitions for the industry, and the upcoming launches of the Xbox Series X and PlayStation 5 look like they'll follow that pattern.

What would have been harder to predict, though, is how many other ways 2020 is poised to change gaming. So many institutional shifts are taking place that the next console generation may even start to look insignificant in comparison, and that's before you consider the effects the COVID-19 pandemic will have for years to come.

There's no telling whether any of 2020's biggest developments will play out the way experts expect, but you don't need a crystal ball to see some of the ways that the events of this year could alter gaming forever.

[Z501]

PS Home says hi

[fhizikz]

no one noticed ps home too?

[aaronaton]

On the part about ''Developers are trying to become my diverse" i just find that whole situation problematic.
You should be chosen on your ability and social/team skills, not your gender or ethnicity.
Imagine being a white male going for a interview and being in the final 2, to then realise your up against someone with an opposing gender or ethnicity.... you might as well get on the next train home before it even starts.

[SubtilizZer]

In other words you’re afraid to see white males treated the way minority’s have been for years?

Because this article didn’t say anything in line with the problematic fantasy in your head.

[mandf]

Discrimination to fight discrimination only creates a bigger divide on how discrimination is solved. People are idiots and should just be kind to all

[Atticus_finch]

Mandf so the only answer is to keep the status quo and f all.
Hiring minorities is not discrimination, quiet the opposite.

[TheSocietalAnomaly]

Oooh boy yes. Let’s start this fight. :)

Do you love that we have sports in which blacks (me) are the majority and get crowned and kinged left and right (Emmit Smith, Michael Jordan...) creating the illusion that we are “better” at sports?

Does that make white people feel any type of way you think? You don’t think that maybe we’re favored in situations? I think you people forget, the news and shit you see on the internet is highly skewed.

I say this because I live in a predominantly black town in N Cal and the shit you see in the news has been happening to whites unspoken for years. So before you go “oh my god I hope you get treated badly like I’VE BEEN TOLD they do!”, maybe know that it is most definitely NOT how you think it is. Not even “disproportionately” as some like to say.

And stop f ing saying “minorities”. Enough with the separation language. Naming groups separates and makes people angry at each other.

[mandf]

Finch

If you are a different race then me and are more qualified then you should get the job no.question. when I dont get a job I like to think someone got it fairly not favoritism. That's my point of view as an individual. I'm an ex con and find it hard to find a job whether I'm qualified or not.

[IMissJimRyan]

I'm so sorry about your suffering.

I am setting up an online movement in defense of the right of historic minorities to remain a minority.

[aaronaton]

I'm not suffering lol. So you're in favour of forced diversity?
Imagine being black and feeling like you only got hired to fill a quota.

[IMissJimRyan]

"Imagine being black and feeling like you only got hired to fill a quota."

I am terrified, just like you, of being treated as minorities are treated. Not to be hired for not meeting a set of conditions for which I was not offered. It's really scary.

We are together to combat this scenario.

[Atticus_finch]

Wow A Aron thats definitely a scary and sad situation. Now imagine if the opposite was true and it had been like that for ever, wait we don't have to imagine it. I will pray for your suffering. Not.

[SubtilizZer]

@mandf

Nobody said to fight discrimination with discrimination but you.

This article is talking about underrepresented groups.

@TheSocietalAnomaly

Bro I don’t even want to start with you because you’ve pretty easily hold strong views that won’t be changed.

But for one example for your “has been happening to whites for unspoken for years” comment.

Did you see the lady in Central Park call the police on that dude who asked her to leash her dog? She literally got mad at him and told him. “I am going to call the police and tell them there is an African American man threatening my life”

She literally told him my relationship with law enforcement as a white woman is such that I will always be seen as the victim. By making that phone call the way she did she was threatening his life.

And like you said “minorities dominate sports“ but that’s an illusion as you stated. There are more minorities in the league because our idols have primarily been athletes for years.

When all you have to look up to is rappers and athletes wtf do you expect the youth to strive to be like.

[mandf]

I was replying to the guy above me not the article. If we all just see each other as human beings and treat each other with respect things could change. To be treated equal means not one group being promoted to meet a quota. We all bleed the same color and want to be happy. I dont have enough time in a day to think negatively about things I dont know or understand. Racists live in a world where there spend all day hating others. What a sad life to live.

[dlocsta]

You find it problematic because you have never been on the other end. You have never been in the situation where you are just as capable as the next person but you don't get the job because you are not the white guy. They are not saying they are just going to pick people because they are non-white or female. They are saying they are going to try to give a fair chance to those people. And if you think the white guy is always the better pick and every time someone does not get the job it is because of some ulterior motive you are part of the problem. There are hundreds of qualified people for every job. If you don't believe it, what happens when someone retires or is fired? The next person is brought in and sometimes they are even better.

[Kabaneri]

The Travis Scott Fortnite concert was really cool. I don't play Fortnite much but I like how Epic is doing these live events.

[IanTH]

Pretty weak article. It's more like "the things that have been changing in the past several years are still changing". Nothing in the 6 months of 2020 has radically shifted anything in gaming, and people have noticed these things. If the writer is just noticing, I guess it's true for them. Which, for a video game journalist would be...pretty bad.
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Esports are on the rise? Streaming is on the rise? Gaming becoming "truly" global? Like somehow none of these were true in 2019. Even their lootbox example for getting "packed up" was Rocket League, who did away with them in 2019 - the year of SWBF2's implosion.

Indie development is "at a crossroads", but indies have always been at a disadvantage when talking about a small team vs a team of hundreds. Tools generally improve to the point that teams who want to create "bigger" games can make good simulacrums, and no one with half a brain is going to poo-poo Hollow Knight or Celeste because PS5/XSX games are even prettier than this gen.

E3 getting cancelled is just pushing a trend that was already strong to the forefront - State of Play, Inside Xbox, Nintendo Direct...this is, yet again, nothing new. Nothing about 2020 specifically...

I could keep going, but it's true of just about every point in this article.

[IanTH]

EDIT: "the year *AFTER* SWBF2's retooling" is how that should have read.

I rewrote a few sentences before posting, and somehow I left a hybrid of the old and new sentence where the result makes no sense. The SWBF2 fiasco happened in 2017, but since the big update/retooling that removed lootboxes happened in 2018, that's what I was talking about in regards to the "lootboxes are disappearing" thing.

[Cmoney007]

I always find Locomarles on these articles trying to fight some crusade. It is amusing. Anyways, some people in this comment section understand that pandering isn't going to solve anything.

[fortnitehack]

Great beat !

[fortnitehack]

So excited

[Cmoney007]

Locomarles = Locomorales

It was rude of me to spell his name wrong before, but he needs to understand that pandering to these companies will always be a losing battle because trying to please everybody isn't worth it.

[AK91]

Lol