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[benji]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/2023-is-one-of-the-worst-years-for-gaming-ever.769748/

But wait, hypothetic person says! We can just rely on indies for great games! Yeah, good luck even finding out individual games exist now that Twitter is on fire (the major social media outreach for many small studios).

As I'm always constantly having to repeat, you are not everyone else. Facebook and the platform stores alone would be greater outreach sources than Twitter. I suspect Discord could be as well because of its genesis within the industry and the fact that it ties into pre-existing community groups. YouTube and streamers certainly would be up there. I would question how many Twitter "sources" you have about this that aren't tied to YouTube or one of the game journalism entities. Like ResetERA.com many of the Twitter "gaming" personalities spend very little time talking about games, especially ones nobody else has heard of. The "zeitgeist" generated by Twitter has very little relation to what people are playing or desire to play. It mostly produces a delusional impression about what people care about from an obsessed 1% who do nothing else. (I do, of course, think it has an effect on sales however.)