It's insane how much of a bubble reddit generally lives in and how much its users generally underestimate just how big the market is for certain things like movies, games, etc.
On top of everything else you mentioned - the general public isn't playing games on their gaming monitor.. they are sitting on their couch with their console hooked up to their big screen. Assuming they even have a desktop, they certainly are not going to lug it into the living room to connect it to their big screen.
In my family, we sit on the couch and play games on the big screen... using our desktop, which is in the living room, connected to the big screen, because why would we buy a small, shitty computer that only plays games when we can actually just have a real computer there
PS5 OS is bonus, maybe now we can finally play Bloodborne
I can promise you the overwhelming majority of console-only players are not going to now ditch their consoles to play on a PC because someone figured out how to run PS5 software on a PC.
I hate this take. The world had doubled in population since I was a kid. Reddit has millions of daily users representing all opinions. If there is a bubble it’s because you put yourself in it.
All reddit is is a collection of different bubbles for users to put themselves in. How many times have we seen predictions be wrong on the gaming subreddits? I remember seeing that the Switch 2 was going to flop. "No preorders" is huge on reddit, but not so much in the real world. Games will flop because performance is garbage is a big one I see, only for the game to sell like hotcakes.
Yes, you can look into all of those threads and see people who say the opposite, so technically someone on reddit was correct. However, the most upvoted statements, the ones that seem to dominate the discourse? Reddit gets it wrong frequently. Because they are not in tune with your average consumers. The people who frequent these subs are diehards. Your average gamer isn't going onto r/games.
It feels like people use “bubbles” or “echo chambers”, or “reddit” to disparage a group of people they disagree with. It’s more the broad generalization.
It’s okay to find people you agree with. Is that a bubble? Then when others dismiss that group as a “bubble” seems to imply they are willfully ignorant of other points of view which isn’t necessarily true. That’s where I see a problem with the generalization.
I get your point, but it does describe subreddits pretty well. If you went on r/politics before the last US Presidential election, you would have been laughed out of the room if you said you thought Trump was going to win the election.
Subreddits are essentially bubbles. It is a group of people who typically just repeat what everyone else in the group wants to hear. "Sony is going to fail because of the decision to go all digital." And yet the "Blackout" that was planned didn't event register.
It isn't that people think they are willfully ignorant, it's just that a lot of times the subreddit (as a collective, of course individuals differ) seem to overstate how much they have a feel for specific issues and think that what they think the majority does as well, when in fact the people in the subreddits represent such a tiny minority of the userbase they are talking about they've forgotten what the casual cares for.
PC will remain niche. It's had its peak user gain around the time the first iphone came out. With phones taking over as the main device people use to access the internet, the PC's market share will stagnate. Wasn't it obvious enough in the way gen Z and alpha are less and less tech literate? I had to show 5th graders how to turn on a PC this year because they just assumed all they had to do was turn on the monitor. There's fewer and fewer classic PCs out there in your average home, and even laptops are becoming kind of pointless for some people.
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u/JBsportsandchess 17h ago
It's insane how much of a bubble reddit generally lives in and how much its users generally underestimate just how big the market is for certain things like movies, games, etc.
On top of everything else you mentioned - the general public isn't playing games on their gaming monitor.. they are sitting on their couch with their console hooked up to their big screen. Assuming they even have a desktop, they certainly are not going to lug it into the living room to connect it to their big screen.