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POE said:

Kane1389 said:

POE said:

Kane1389 said:

You know what? you are totally right and im wrong!!! How could i´ve been so blind. The gaming industry is healthy. We can play one GTA every 3 years and meanwhile some indie games in the best selling console of all time.

What indie game is the best selling console game of all times?

You didn´t get the point.

What is your point?

My point is that one big seller like GTA doesn`t sustain the industry. You need a lot "GTA`s" per year and saddenly thats not the case. In fact, the minority of the games dont make a profit, and thats why developers are closing their studios.

The only way you can say the console gaming industry is in trouble from the consumer side is if you start getting loads of AAA (cost) 85+ meta games selling badly. If the industry shovels out sub-70 games at AAA development cost and expects to be proitable then the industry needs to take a long hard look at itself.

What sustains trhe industry is profitable games. Low cost games selling in the hundreds of thousands is sustainable. And if the industry can only afford to put out a few high cost games per year then that can also be sustainable. What's not sustainable is many high cost games tanking in sales. So the lesson there is make high cost games of good quality and with fairly broad appeal, or don't make high cost games. If studios spend loads of money on games people don't want to buy then they deserve to have their doors shut.