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Indie game Slay the Spire 2 has 393,000 players on Steam right now.

https://wccftech.com/slay-the-spire-2-420k-concurrent-...

That's a thousand times more than much-hyped TenCent-backed title High Guard, which received top billing at the Video Game Awards. (Which are, apparently, bigger than the Super Bowl, though I resolutely watch neither.)

Video games are alive and well. The video game industry is dying of self-inflicted wounds. Latest heir to the Concord crown is expected to be Marathon, though it's been out for two days and isn't dead yet.
I have a high suspicion that the AAA marketers and other 'researchers' aren't even bothering to count and calculate indie sales the way I am. I frequently do comparisons as part of my research to see what's doing well among other things. It's pure corpo propaganda to try and claim the games industry is dead.

This is the normie equivalent of Walmart getting butthurt and saying the economy has fallen on hard times because they're going out of business and in an alternate world everyone rejected them and went for the high street shopping instead.

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