This short, well-produced documentary goes into how the games industry is unsustainable and gamers are all living in fantasy where they think that the next Xbox or Playstation or Nintendo will keep being released without ever realizing that the rare earth mineral deposits are getting even rarer and that the energy costs associated with extracting them is incompatible with a society that avoids the climate change apocalypse we are facing in the coming decades. I highly recommend watching it, the author did a great job researching the numbers, the energy costs, and the science behind how our future with climate change apocalypse will look.
The documentary is in French, but you can enable the English captions - just click the CC button in the bottom-right.
How do you imagine video games to be with the challenges set by climate change? Will the industry try to remain conservative and cater more and more to the rich who can afford the expensive, polluting production processes, while the poor and middle-classes die from an overheated climate? Or will "videogames" as we know them change and adapt to the difficult circumstances we all will find ourselves in? There is no question that the games industry cannot continue the way that we "gamers" have been accustomed to think it will with the next Playstation or the next Xbox or the next PC hardware.
The documentary is in French, but you can enable the English captions - just click the CC button in the bottom-right.
How do you imagine video games to be with the challenges set by climate change? Will the industry try to remain conservative and cater more and more to the rich who can afford the expensive, polluting production processes, while the poor and middle-classes die from an overheated climate? Or will "videogames" as we know them change and adapt to the difficult circumstances we all will find ourselves in? There is no question that the games industry cannot continue the way that we "gamers" have been accustomed to think it will with the next Playstation or the next Xbox or the next PC hardware.