Wake up and smell the NFTs, everybody, it’s 2023. The new new normal is a world where we don’t wear masks anymore, but the weekly Covid death count is higher than in the lockdown days. Where tech billionaires are convinced we’ll soon be living exclusively in VR while, in reality, gamers are still booting up their PS4s to play another identical FIFA. The supply chain’s still absolutely knackered and everything costs £500,000 now. But most troubling of all, the new console generation still hasn’t kicked in yet.
I don’t mean to be blase. Covid’s impact has far more serious implications outside the gaming sector, but during these once-in-a-lifetime paradigm shifts like living through a global pandemic and watching the myriad unforeseen ways it affects every far-flung corner of society, you learn to use humor as a coping strategy. Anyway, what happened to all the brilliant graphics we were supposed to have by now?
