Watch_Dogs sold over 4 millions units during its first week

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DerNebel said:

osed125 said:

DerNebel said:
News like this also tell us that gaming is in no shape or form dying, which is great.

It tells us that in order to be succesful you'll need to spend hundreds of millions in a single game or go indie.

OT: congrats to Ubi, if I had time I would have already bought this, maybe ill get the Wii U version at some point.

How does it tell us that?

Is safe to assume that (including marketing) watch dogs budget most lilely went over the 100 million mark, most extremely succesful games also fall into that category (or get close to it). A game who is considered AAA but doesn't have marketing (or not enough) will most likely going to fail. This means that big companies will spend all of their resources in maybe 2 or 3 games a year, leaving the rest to "die".

The game indistry has basically become a "go big or go home" market, with some few exceptions here and there.

The game industry might grow in terms of made revenue because of those 2 or 3 mega hits, but it wont grow in quantity (game wise)