Amazon apparently didn’t get the memo that the metaverse is lifeless. I imply, how else do you clarify its new 3D “Gaming Zone” showroom that appears like what the Nineteen Eighties thought the long run could be?
The Gaming Zone options the tag “past” as a part of its URL, implying that that is one thing new or revolutionary. It’s actually not.
As an alternative of organizing video games as a collection of hyperlinks on the web page, this unnecessarily retro Amazon storefront merely arranges them as 3D objects in a digital area which you could navigate round.
Is it cool to see digital posters of Shadow of the Erdtree and Murderer’s Creed Shadows? Positive, I assume, should you don’t have a retailer like Finest Purchase or GameStop close to you…
You’ll be able to’t actually do something right here besides flip, stroll a couple of paces, and click on to open up the identical Amazon product pages you’ll’ve seen in any other case. Even the “arcade cupboards” are there to purchase, to not play.
It feels very very similar to a “metaverse” venture that Amazon had in a drawer, handed off to a developer, and forgot about. What’s the purpose? Why’d they even make this? Who’s it for? We’ll by no means know…
