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Re:How Command and Conquer: Tiberian Sun punished the comput... by wolfgke on Saturday August 10, 2019 @06:14PM (#20664787)
> If there was any way this was true, then people born after 1999 would be itching to play games from the 90s and early 2000s, instead of the latest thing from EA and crowd.

Not necessarily. Games at that time targeted a quite very different audience than today's games. So people born earlier do not like these modern games and people born after 1999 are not itching to play games from the 90s.

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Re:How Command and Conquer: Tiberian Sun punished the comput... by ekianjo on Saturday August 10, 2019 @08:57PM (#20665525)
Yeah back in the 80s and 90s games on PC were made for a niche of folks who were rich enough to purchase a PC and who were typically highly educated, most of them not teenagers. the median gamer today is completely diffferent.
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Re:How Command and Conquer: Tiberian Sun punished the comput... by ahartmetz on Sunday August 11, 2019 @05:45AM (#20667320)
The PC gaming crowd is probably still more like that, compared to console gamers. Most AAA games seem to be made for consoles and ported to PC... Indies often start on PC and are later ported to consoles if they are successful.
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