Never be fooled into believing that corporations are your friend. They are always just looking to chase profits.
But if corporations believe that Pride is profitable, that is a sign that society is headed in the right direction. Whereas if they turn around because Pride is no longer profitable, that is a cause for worry.
Projection is when you said "I guess you're just upset because someone was critical of something you like."
If you must know, I'm actually not a Mario Kart fan, played the older ones but haven't touched the series since DS. More of a Kirby Air Ride and F-Zero GX kinda guy. But I can still understand the appeal well enough to not post this kind of thinly veiled "I'm mad that other people like something I don't" thread.
I got to see him live for the first time last year, absolutely incredible show.
Are you really unable to understand why other people enjoy things? Is this a serious question?
But none of those are entire industries crashing. Audiences change, media changes how it targets audiences, business models change, but the medium still lives.
It's a great show... whenever one particular character isn't onscreen.
Loved the first four games, but I skipped 5 after hearing nothing but bad things. Glad to hear this is a return to form.
Them's Fightin' Herds has one of the best tutorials in the fighting game genre, but on top of that it also has a story mode cleverly designed to act as a second tutorial. Enemies and bosses are designed you on specific concepts like anti-airing or getting past zoning. It even has platforming segments to get you used to fighting game movement.
Sadly, the published pulled the plug so chapter 1 is all we'll ever get. But that chapter 1 is still better than any other fighting game singleplayer.
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.
Right monitor is 16:9 and VRR, left is a 16:10 monitor my work gave me during covid. So games go on the right.
I'll give you characters that started on PC, but several of the characters you listed were always multiplat.