>>41766347Most people that get higher either abuse the tag, are well known and people are watching them for the person (like Vinesauce), or if it is a non-English stream.
We are decades removed from a lot of those games. While people are willing to watch an AVGN video that's edited with him banging his head against a game, will people watch someone bang their head on an old game they never played for six hours? I did with LittleMixer when he was playing the final level of Super R-Type, but that isn't everyone's cup of tea. Not only that but retro inspired new releases don't get the attention that huge games have like Elden Ring. You heard a little about Shredders Revenge, but probably nothing about Final Vendetta, and Vengeful Guardian: Moonrider came out this month. There is very little new game hype when compared to Elden Ring or some other big release. There's no advertisements for these games, if you love retro games you probably already know about them so they rely on that, and that audience is small. Check out the LoL tab versus the retro tab. 5k people with the top stream pulling in 500 viewers while LoL has 255k viewers and there are multiple 5k viewer streams. Elden Ring is a single game and not a category and beats out retro.
>>41766831Yeah, look at Niji ENs Hanamori friend group. With all the incompetence Tsunderia had, I can say for sure the most crucial thing that will be gone is that we won't have a corpo taking chances on new talent like Tsun did. There wouldn't be an Amiya without Tsun, or Kazune and so on.
