Looking at the chart for new releases vs older game still looks pretty bleak for the industry, once you focus on the stats for games 1-5 years old. That ought to be far and away the most popular group, since it represents the games that are still new and cutting-edge and should also have the benefit of exposure and word-of-mouth. Instead, that sector is steadily declining. Yes, some of them are probably "aging" into the 6 years+ games, but the 1-5 group has declined more (22 points) than the the 6+ group has grown (18 points). This is during a period when the industry has been super-aggressive about pushing *everything* into the live-service mold, which in theory is supposed to extend the shelf life of games so that they still have active player bases years after release. Instead, people seem to be trying more newly-released games but not sticking with them.
Looking at the chart for new releases vs older game still looks pretty bleak for the industry, once you focus on the stats for games 1-5 years old. That ought to be far and away the most popular group, since it represents the games that are still new and cutting-edge and should also have the benefit of exposure and word-of-mouth. Instead, that sector is steadily declining. Yes, some of them are probably "aging" into the 6 years+ games, but the 1-5 group has declined more (22 points) than the the 6+ group has grown (18 points). This is during a period when the industry has been super-aggressive about pushing *everything* into the live-service mold, which in theory is supposed to extend the shelf life of games so that they still have active player bases years after release. Instead, people seem to be trying more newly-released games but not sticking with them.
That headline definitely reads like a ChatGPT hallucination.