https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7NzVVzQ6C4
I explain why AAA is declining is not really a fair statement and attempt to bring in neuance into the conversation. Additionally I find what I believe to be

https://www.reddit.com/r/rpg_gamers/comments/ej39yz/why_aaa_industry_get_away_with_decliningdumbing/
All AAA game companies are making each year, more dumbed down games. ... Baldur's Gate, NWN, only good games. DA2 and DA:I looks like a generic cooldown based mmo with bullet sponge enemies. Look to Blizzard who also dumbed down a lot his diablo franchise, while on Diablo 1, you become better at casting firebolts by reading spellbooks and

https://www.reddit.com/r/The10thDentist/comments/jyckms/the_quality_of_aaa_gaming_is_not_declining_aaa/
The only AAA game studios I can think of that seem to truly care about the art of the game itself are playstation titles and Nintendo titles. Blizzard Activision had been getting increasingly scummy, Ubisoft pumps out the same games every year, EA had always been scummy, Bethesda has lost pretty much all its good will it gained with the release

https://forums.beamdog.com/discussion/77953/why-aaa-industry-get-away-with-declining-dumbing-down-but-smaller-studios-fails-when-dumb-down-their
All AAA game companies are making each year, more dumbed down games. Compare Fallout 4 / Fallout 76 with earlier fallout games. They have no in depth ammo mechanics, on FNV, you could use all types of ammo, explosive and incendiary for .50 BMG, armor piercing, hollow point, dragon breath, etc; guns can "jam" depending the durability and on hardcore, survive in the desert was not trivial since

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Why AAA industry get away with DECLINING/dumbing down but smaller studios fails when dumb down their « 1 2 » Comments. SorcererV1ct0r Member Posts: 2,176. January 2020 edited January 2020. jjstraka34 wrote: » SorcererV1ct0r wrote: » Why games often offers LESS stuff than previous ones?

https://forums.atariage.com/topic/351845-why-is-gaming-declining/page/3/
They are games where you can build up a community, build up your servers and generally invest so much that it's hard to give all that up just to jump to the latest thing. People create game and game servers within minecraft for instance. And they stay fresh with new updates. Minecraft is a very different game than 10 years ago.

https://xklsv.com/a-reader-explains-why-video-games-are-declining-but-not-for-the-obvious-reasons/2024-05-04/495040
Of course, there will always be exceptions - some kids do have consoles and love them. And Nintendo games are still popular among younger kids. But as they get older, they tend to gravitate towards games like Roblox and Minecraft, before eventually moving on to games like Fortnite and GTA Online, as well as other free online shooters.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/26275267
game. Keywords declining status quo, deterrence games, expected utility theory, prospect theory Introduction The idea that a declining status quo serves as a powerful catalyst of general deterrence failure is an attractive proposition but one that has not been given careful attention in the rational choice deterrence literature (Huth, 1999,40).

https://www.reddit.com/r/videogames/comments/191epzh/what_does_it_feel_like_video_games_are_declining/
We can also look a few years back to games like Hades, Signalis, Tunic, Omori, Cult of the Lamb, Inscryption, Ender Lilies, Stray and many, many more. Limiting yourself to only AAA game is very narrow-minded take for there are great deal of fantastic experiences to be had with indie games as they are also a major part of video gaming as a whole.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/691088-xbox-one/75567085
I think it looks worse due to the huge glut of games released last gen, the xbox360 had more games on it that the PS2, and the PS2 had more games on it that the PSone, but this gen the xbox one is likely to have around half the games the Xbox360 had, I think Don Mattrick's lack of interest in system exclusives at the beginning of this gen has reduced the amount of AAA titles being released

https://tildes.net/~games/tfp/an_analysis_of_the_declining_audio_quality_in_assassins_creed_origins_odyssey_and_valhalla
I think the most shocking of major AAA games was the recent PC port of the Master Chief Collection but that's due to the result of a change in technology between the Xbox 360 and the PC. Volume of things are all over the place, some cutscenes still don't have their full audio gamut, and other sounds just sounded kind of tinny or weak.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/1c2q6j6/why_do_you_believe_gaming_is_declining/
Gaming is declining, IMO, because it's not advancing on the platform people consume media on most now. The phone. Mobile games SUCK or are passable with horrible microtransaction structures. There are still wonderful games on PC and console and of course those are still going strong so it's not gloom and doom.

https://www.reddit.com/r/pokemon/comments/nlv4qp/when_and_why_did_the_games_start_declining_in/
So the decline started at the end of Gen 4 but until gen 7 it was minimal. The games have a new director so the games feel different. Priorities and focus are in different locations. Not so much declining quality, but significant changes occur every few generations to make for a much more linear experience.