Many Gen Z grew up with Wii’s and Xbox’s which used physical media. I was never allowed to own an Xbox, but I did have a Wii. I think a lot of us have memories of putting in game CDs. The cutoff for that might be Gen Alpha.
Specific age boundaries aside, the younger people are, the less experience they have of owning physical things, and the stranger the world as it used to be sounds to them. They live in a curated world of continually obsoleted technology they don’t own fed a diet of propaganda pushing technology and its proponents as saviors and not oppressors.
Yeah, there’s definitely a range. I’m gen z and we never really had game consoles, so I grew up mostly gaming on a Mac (do not recommend, although I think the translation layer situation has improved since then). I also have memories of putting in tapes, cartridges, and floppy disks to my parents’ old Atari and Commodore computers (both of which actually worked great after having not been used for like >30 years)
Who wouldn’t? It’s such a weird thing to assume it shouldn’t just work (assuming no hardware failure at least).
If I turn on a PC from 10 years ago it’ll boot up and run the applications installed on it.
Gen Z grew up in this broken world. They don’t know any better. They don’t understand what it means to own something.
That’s the plan, actually.
Many Gen Z grew up with Wii’s and Xbox’s which used physical media. I was never allowed to own an Xbox, but I did have a Wii. I think a lot of us have memories of putting in game CDs. The cutoff for that might be Gen Alpha.
Could be.
Specific age boundaries aside, the younger people are, the less experience they have of owning physical things, and the stranger the world as it used to be sounds to them. They live in a curated world of continually obsoleted technology they don’t own fed a diet of propaganda pushing technology and its proponents as saviors and not oppressors.
Yeah, there’s definitely a range. I’m gen z and we never really had game consoles, so I grew up mostly gaming on a Mac (do not recommend, although I think the translation layer situation has improved since then). I also have memories of putting in tapes, cartridges, and floppy disks to my parents’ old Atari and Commodore computers (both of which actually worked great after having not been used for like >30 years)
Gen Z is a wide spectrum.
I started on the PS1 and I am Gen Z
Because we’ve been conditioned to think that putting in a disc means a quick 5GB update to install…come back in 20 min
It’s been incremental but the landscape of gaming is now a casino with games, not games with betting.