The Realm of AAA Games ‘Not Fine,’ Says Eternal Darkness Director Denis Dyack

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Slimebeast said:

He is somewhat right in that the middle-ground AAA games have become increasingly costly and risky and publishers have become aware of that. Examples are Dead Space, Crysis, Darksiders, Lost Planet, Dragon's Dogma, Dragon Age, Rage, Deus Ex, Devil May Cry, Homefront and Hitman. These games seldom make any money.

Activision already left that segment entirely after Prototype 2.

Instead the trend is to focus on the really huge titles (COD, BF, GTA, Assassin's Creed, Watch Dogs, Destiny, MGS, Resident Evil, Fallout), or invest like crazy and try to ensure your middle-ground franchices take the step into the big league (Far Cry 3, Borderlands 2, Tomb Raider).

The biggest AAA titles are the cash-cows, and they're not going away, every big publisher is going to continue to invest heavily in these.

But on the other end the middle-ground titles must adapt and try innovative business models or downsize the studios or else they will remain too risky and lose money, and that's where Dyack's point comes in.

 

Thank you! Finally someone who actually knows what he is talking about.

I am willing to bet with any naysayer in this thread that we will not see a video game market crash, at least not one that happened in '83-'85. Its even more foolish to think so, now that the majority of income is shifting away from AAA and its comming more and more from smaller DD (apps, MMOs, competitive FPS/MOBA etc.). 

The industry is changing, but its doing this since it was born. Its nothing new.

Also, AAA does not mean style over substance. It means both. Just because some developers do not deliver on the substance front, it does not mean that there are non. Series like TES, Bioshock, GTA, GoW, GOW, Forza, GT, Halo, Uncharted, Half Life and many, many more, are all proof that there is a reason we cathegorize them AAA.

Lets simply stop overlooking Nintendos fault, and calling them the king and queen of substance, especially considering the many failures they had since 2006 with the Wii, and their incapability of observing what the gaming market wants, with the U.

OT: this guy even has a following that agrees with him? He is a liar and an incompetent. Ever since ED he never had any quality release and I bet even that was a perfect storm of events. He is a nobody, and the last person who should have an "idea" about how trhe game industry is going...