Is the Video Game Industry Doomed? w/ Mat Piscatella - Kinda Funny Gamescast

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Leisure, Games, Entertainment News, Video Games, News

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2025

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Go to http://joinbilt.com/kindafunny to start earning points on your rent payments today. Go to http://factormeals.com/factorpodcast and use code FACTORPODCAST to get 50% off your first box plus free shipping. Go to http://get.stash.com/KINDAFUNNY to see how you can receive $25 towards your first stock purchase and to view important disclosures. Thank you for the support! Run of Show - - Start & Mat Piscatella is Here! - Housekeeping - Is The Video Game Industry DOOMED?! - How the Pandemic Played a Part - Will the Job Cuts Slow Down Soon? - What About the Indie Space? - Sales Expectations - Are Black Hole Games Harmful? - Ads - Will GTA 6 & Switch 2 Save the Industry? - Income, Inflation, Etc. - The Switch 2 of It All - Is Game Pass Good for the Industry? - SuperChats - What Are We Usually Most Wrong About? - RAPID FIRE Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:35.3	What's up everybody? Welcome to a very special kind of funny games cast for Thursday, February 20th, 2025.
0:47.2	I'm one of your host, Greg Miller, alongside executive director and video game industry analyst at Circona.
0:53.5	Matt Piscuitella. Hello, Matt.
0:56.3	Hello, Greg Miller. Hello, chat. Hello, fellow video game enthusiasts. Really great to be here.
1:03.0	I can't believe we're finally getting you on the show, Matt. As much as we have bantered back and
1:08.9	forth online, whether it be in the old days on Twitter
1:11.5	and the new days on blue sky, wherever it may be, whether it be you big-timing me at Lawson's
1:16.9	Carvery. You know what I mean? It's E3. You're right in front of me in line. You won't even stop
1:20.9	your conversation to say hi. I forgive. I forget. Don't worry. It was, it's one of my darkest
1:26.7	hours and something I regret all of the time i i feel terrible
1:30.7	about it matt thank you so much for taking time out of your very busy day to come talk to us today
1:35.5	and answer the question is the gaming industry doomed uh before we even get into that not everyone
1:42.7	is it as dialed into social media as many of us are.
1:46.4	Not everybody pays attention to the names we read every day on Kind of Funny Games Daily.
1:51.4	Who are you and what do you do?
1:54.0	Very envious of those people.
1:55.8	You're making the right decisions.
1:58.8	Well, my name's Matt.
2:00.5	As Greg mentioned, I'm the executive director of video games at CERCANA, which is formerly the NPD group. We had a little bit of a merger a few years ago. Before that, I spent a bunch of years at Activision and then Activision Blizzard, where I did everything from trade marketing analysis to business
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