The DraGAU-9. Because when it comes down to damage control, what better than a dragon with a gun? Long range, medium range, close range, right on top of you, nowhere is safe. Order now!

Actually, I would think that shrinking the body down would only make the dragon more powerful. Because of the fact that matter can neither be destroyed nor created, only converted into or from energy. Reducing the total mass? Charging and compressing a tightly wound spring, that thing might backhand someone into next year. By accident. Think Ant-Man. Shrinking himself down didn’t make him any weaker, he still had the mass of a full grown man.

Why would a species as proud as a dragon even consider learning how to shrink themselves and put themselves at a disadvantage at the same time?

This also could play into the issue of overall size, dragons come in many different sizes, maybe the shapeshifters are at the maximum possible size to power ratio that keeps them competent. A towering dragon is terrifying… but the question is, can it stand up on its own four (or more or less) limbs? Too big, and it’s a WACKY WAVING ARM FLAILING INFLATABLE TUBE DRAGON, minus the wacky and waving parts. In other words, a ragdoll. The size of a Kaiju. Too tiny, and it literally becomes a Giant Space Flea From Nowhere. Like I said, backhanding someone so hard that they literally travel fast enough to bend time and space and wind up in… sometime next year. I mean logically there would have to be a limit before there was falloff or potential gravitational anomalies, so that could explain larger dragons being more powerful simply because they grew so much that this is their small version.

Or, we could just say it wasn’t in our universe, where these rules apply. That works too I guess.

I think symbolically the older ones will prevail, but only because they are so simple in concept compared to newer versions. They are also more popular. But that’s just for non-video games. Tetris had the most copies sold for about 34 years, and then Minecraft comes along and dunks on that with its massive amount of copies sold. For a 34 year old game that has variants on every console known to man, it failed against the survival freeform game on Java. Only three platforms supported at the time. And it’s still trucking.

But yea, chess will be eternal. Sports will be eternal. Video games will be temporary, but eventually forgotten. Chess in particular will live on forever because of variants like Chess Evolved Online, which just makes chess absolutely insane. I counter your Queen++ with my Dragon+! Problem? NO! NOT THE WISPS!

As for VR inclusion, video games get a slight boost here. Sports get a slight nerf. And board games are unchanged. It has to do with the amount of effort needed to convert it into a VR experience. Video games are a step away. Board games are so simple that it’s painfully easy to make Virtual. Sports are a bit complicated and finicky when regarding physics and body movements, so that’s the biggest hurdle for them.