When you're at a point where there's just no way your action game based on a world-famous billion-dollar box office super hero character can realistically be financially viable you have to ask what the games industry is doing, man.
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BREAKING: Electronic Arts is canceling its planned Black Panther game and shutting down developer Cliffhanger Studios.
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With Indie games being the games that pull the industry thru.
There were just under 19 *thousand* new games on Steam last year, 51 releases every single day.
Nobody small can really fight for eyeballs in that storm; at best you get lucky.
Yeah, it's going to be a rough time and hope the bust wouldn't last too long >.>
there is also the fear of trump and the magas explanation
*private companies proceed to write all the law and economy in a way where the most profitable activity is dismantling yourself for stock buybacks*
"Huh, where did my products and services go?"
"But where do the profits come fro-..."
AI!!! YOUR MOTHER!!! PICK ONE, DOESN'T MATTER!!!
ONLY PROFIT
TLDR: i dont think we should shaft ppl
There are plenty of dumb decisions to go around, but this is pretty silly.
Look at Clair Obscur. A roughly AA game with a modest budget, estimated 30-50 million, that sold 2 million copies in two weeks, was made by a smaller team, and is an amazing game.
Though SNES Spider-Man games were decent
Smaller studios were less able to get funding for smaller games, so the only ones who could operate were big players who didn't want to compete with themselves. So, they made fewer, bigger, games, going for bigger and bigger bets
The thing that's gonna pop off is effectively random, so you make a bunch of cheaper stuff.
Just a shame that we won’t see anything with the nemesis system again for a long time if ever.
What has crashed is a number of Corporate AAA studio productions.
This is nothing like the crash in the 80s.
But still, strong enough that James Gunn was put in charge of all of DC and Peacemaker got 2 seasons.
Then the second was the opposite, well received but didn't sell tickets. Probably didn't help that it released during covid and simultaneously on HBO Max.
Disregard