Chebucto Regional Softball Club

Are any third party games $80 right now? I thought it was literally just Mario Kart World.

But none of those are entire industries crashing. Audiences change, media changes how it targets audiences, business models change, but the medium still lives.

The Atari crash was just Atari. In North America - and *only* North America, things were quite different elsewhere in the world - Atari was virtually the entire game industry at the time, but that isn't the case today. We already do see individual developers and publishers crash the way Atari did. All the time. But for every flop, there are a dozen hits. The industry is big, and it is not a monolith. And the audience is far far far larger. People will always be buying games. It's not possible for the entire industry to crash the way Atari did. It'd be like expecting the entire music industry, movie industry, or book industry to crash.

I've had non-Hall Effect controllers for as long as I've been gaming, which is to say since the N64, and JoyCon 1s are the only ones I've ever had problems with. This is brand new tech, we've lived without it before. Sure, it would be nice to have, but I feel like people are just hastily jumping to the assumption that these controllers will be just as brittle as JoyCon 1s were. That is an assumption we do not know.

For what it's worth, we've had non-Hall Effect sticks for generations, and they've mostly been fine on everything else but JoyCons. We won't know whether these actually are as fragile as original JoyCons were until we start hearing reports of broken sticks.