Elden Ring has been the only financially successful AAA game that isn't Nintendo or gachashit in a long time. There may be some consequences for none of these studios and publishers bringing in a profit.
Has the video games industry crashed?
Elden Ring has been the only financially successful AAA game that isn't Nintendo or gachashit in a long time. There may be some consequences for none of these studios and publishers bringing in a profit.
When I ask my old clan what they're playing or waiting for release, it's the same games from a decade ago (destiny primarily) and zero games they're waiting to be released. Me I've only been interested in old strategy/Rouge likes and vr mods. Only games I even put an ear to the ground for are VR games and AAA are absolute trash in that department.
EA's net income last year was $837 million
and their net profit was 0
google the difference between income and profit moron
that just means they paid out all the profits to the execs or shareholders
That's actually rather abysmal. Fifa was charging around 300 million per year just to use the Fifa title for their soccer games, before you even account for the cost of getting the rights to individual player likenesses. $837m is roughly the same as what Top Gun Maverick has grossed in cinemas in the last few months.
That's income, not revenue. Their revenue was 5.6 billion
If they're operating at such a low profit margin despite all the cost cutting they've done recently, that's another bad sign.
That explains why they refused to pay Fifa $1bil.
The consequence is gamepass or this is a consequence of gamepass. With gamepass woke will always get subsidized
Elden Ring has been the only good AAA game in a long time so it’s a good sign. But just like Skyrim and breath of the wild, developers will probably completely misunderstand what made elden ring successful and make some shallow imitations of it, but if they see there’s a demand for single player RPGs that don’t hold the players hand I see that as a good thing
It's not crashing, its stagnating. If you were an optimistic you'd say it'd stable or its in its optimal form, but right now it's just stagnant. I feel like it's only going to change when games get SO stagnant there's no more growth and some bigger devs or publishers start pulling out.
Its like how a few fully grown trees can hog all of the sunlight and stop any new ones from growing. Nothing will change until the giants are felled
That's already happening though, publishers are pulling out by offering themselves up for sals.
Yeah but they're still making games afterwards. What I mean is when no one buys and they're forced to just leave entirely. No buy outs, no mergers, just leave.
Oh. The vidya industry doesn't work lie that, so eone will buy them for the ips alonw.
>Elden Ring has been the only financially successful AAA game that isn't Nintendo or gachashit in a long time.
wat
Genres die out, trends change, but the industry is too big to fail. It has its tendrils in pop culture too deep.
We'll never see a crash until ESG score goes away. The entire entertainment industry should have crashed ages ago.
The good news is that ESG loses money, the bad news is that it takes decades to see the loss.
Losing money doesn't matter when you're having the federal reserve print money directly into your pocket.
True. I guess it will just be a full system crash then.
>Elden Ring has been the only financially successful AAA game that isn't Nintendo or gachashit in a long time.
Ok but you just made that up