Is the video game industry too big for its own good? Developers pump absurd amounts of money into their games resulting in games too big and safe to fail, but is it really necessary, especially with how big the market is now?
Is the video game industry too big for its own good?
new york times was out of touch even back in 2001
the average age of a gamer in 2000 was 30
Source? I've read that it's 30-35 currently
more like full of demonic israeli pedophiles
Literally the same people work at and read NYT today that did in 2001 except now they're 72 instead of 50.
The only difference between the two is that paper printing died in between and the modern New York times is more reliant on click bait
Still waiting for Sega to officially announce their AAAA game.
They already did.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1989910/HYENAS/
I don't believe you.
Here, taken from Sega's IR report from 2 or 3 years ago.
Current-day Sega is run by idiots and has lost most of its great devs anyway. They have the right IPs to become the most important player in the AA market, but will blindly follow AAA flavor of the month bullshit. Really sad, considering that they used to be the company with the most creative and groundbreaking output in the whole industry.
>Current-day Sega is run by idiots
As opposed to 90's Sega that fricked itself out of the console market with stupid decision after stupid decision?
Lol what is this useless fricking chart?
>utilize ips
>make a shooting game
>develop for 5 years
>??????
>SUPER GAME RELEASED
>100 BILLION NIP BUX
They unironically think Hyenas is their super game. Having seen the leaked footage I can assure you it won't get anywhere near break even.
the idea is good, but here we need an agreement among aaa developers and they will probably dont want it. combine into one whole: vr chat, pavlov vr, garrys mod, minecraft, gta, dayz, arma, battlefield would be very nice
>Is the video game industry too big for its own good?
But anon! Videogames have to be priced even higher! $60 isn't enough! Not even $70 is enough!
The industry will die otherwise! It's not like it's making more money than ever before, and that games could actually be priced $50 or $40 with the industry still being able to remain on top.
Prices need to go up! Oh and you better pay for the subscription or we'll restrict all the features of the system and hardware you paid for!
if we manage to convince publishers that PS1-PS3 presentation can often look good then this budget issue wouldnt be a problem
instead nowadays whenever they have a low budget project being made they still try to make it look like a modern game with terrible results
They’re saying the same thing in both articles. Using “fairy recently” in the 2023 one is just moronic, because they follow it up with “recent decades.”
A couple decades seems like an awfully short amount of time when you're at the age of the average NYT reader.
>conker's bad fur day
>attracting mature audience
every fricking kid in my school had played it
Games take too long to make now it's not like the PS2 era where a full GTA game could be made in one year. They have to wait half a decade at least to see if the investment of a single game pays off.
>Is the video game industry too big for its own good?
yes
>degradation of a hobby
>more people playing games than reading books
No wonder everyone is such a moron now
they [publishers] want market to be sautrated by AAAAAAAAAAA games with a budgets in billions.
this creates the percpeption of a "big boys club" where if you dont have enough money you are worse.
they hate the idea of independent developers and do whatever they can to to not be perceived as comparable.
this IS the reason they want to increas the price for their games to 70, just to create another visible distinction between AAAAAAAAAA games and independent/AA devs.
the whole AAAAAAAAAAAAA industry and their budgets hang on the shit they can tell their investors to make them believe their stock is worth keeping.