Is PS4 bringing back once sucessful companies that were severely affected on the 7th gen?

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RolStoppable said:

fluky-nintendy said:

RolStoppable said:
That's a satirical OP, right?

Yeah, I'm getting paid to write this.

But in reality no.  Things are just going to get back to their natural state, I believe. People just aren't so much obsessed around FPSs and gimmicky stuff that marked for the most part of the 7th gen. Indies (that aren't really indies like homemade-indies used to be) are replacing and becoming the mid-tier games we used to know. What is so ironic about it? Big companies will also start to do more lower cost games if these games keep selling a lot as we are seeing [games like Child of Light, Journey, Shovel Knight, Outlast and so on].

Give me some concrete examples that inspired your thread title and then we can talk.

You mentioned Capcom and Square-Enix in your OP, but all we know about them is that they each have a couple of IPs left that they make for home consoles, so a clear indication for a continuation of the seventh generation, not a return to how things were in the sixth gen when both companies had more than a dozen of IPs.

I also think that it's a pipedream for the mid-tier to come back. Since retail isn't an option in this blockbuster-driven industry, digital-only is all that's left. But to make what was formerly mid-tier, developers would have to aim for a $25-30 price point. That in and of itself is a problem, similar to how the situation is on smartphones and tablets; there a $10 price point is considered premium and unlikely to succeed because consumers are used to $5 or less; on consoles and PC $10-15 is the norm and even then a sizeable chunk of sales is generated only through discounts.

Not true. There are plenty of digital games selling in the $20-40 range.