| Liquid_faction said: I honestly think there is no correlation to having a good looking game and having it rake in billions in sales. Larger companies that want to pump out pretty games can barely scratch the market that games with a more defined footprint can accomplish. If you look at what has happened to Crytek recently, they pumped out the best looking games even to this day, yet they flopped. Also if you look at Crysis 3's budget, it is relatively smaller than any other AAA studio that is trying to appeal to the consumers through aesthetics. But if you look at the other side of the pool, there are games that look half as good and less than half the budget, yet is making way more money. The whole "Let's make it prettier so it sells more" is just something large companies have disillusioned themselves into believing. |
To be fair the original Crysis literally went viral due to it's pretty graphics and that *did* push sales on PC, same thing happened when they made the first FarCry.
Then Crytek started to pander to Consoles and their sales and popularity seemed to go backwards.
| Soundwave said: It's $91 billion, but $60 billion of that is either mobile apps or free-to-play online games. And those numbers are revenue only, they obviously don't account for profit. |
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Basically, the video game market has matured, the market has consolidated, the same thing happened to the film industry years ago where studio's closed and consolidated and again with the music industry.
Developers/Publishers will continue to make games with minimal risk and the greatest financial return, they are business's and not charities.
If they don't have the return the publisher/developers needs/wants then they get closed and that talent distributed elsewhere.
The bright spot is the PC which allows for pretty much everyone and their dog to build a game and get seen on Steam, which if you care about the industry, you should try and support... As one day, if their game is a success they might get picked up and released on console. - It happens more often than you think too!
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