| Fei-Hung said: I think the title is mad about sinus obsession with blockbusters. It's consumers obsession with blockbusters. Why do people talk about specs of their consoles, TFs, RAM, processor speeds etc. Midtier games are great. I play them all the time. Right now is a great example for me where I finished Rage 2 and then Darksiders Genesis and then I'll be playing Returnal. |
There is no consumers obsession with big blockbusters. There is a big market for them, but companies are pushing it way more than what consumers are demanding. Best selling game on PS4 is a port of a PS3 game. The best selling game of all time is Minecraft. This gen the only games that sold more than 30 million copies in a single console are Mario Kart 8 and Animal Crossing New Horizons
I'm not denying escapism is what make people get into games, but the assertion of high realism being more competent producing it makes no sense
Most people dont talk about specs and whatnot, indeed most of them dont even understand hardware specs unless they are PC gamers.
I'm not saying companies need to start halving their budgets and released smaller games, indeed I think there is quite important for some companies keep pushing boundaries as far as technology is concerned
But I'm really not buying your argument they are spending more and more because it's what consumers likes the most. So far seems like multiplayer and accessibility are the main selling points of any game that's why a game like The Last of Us 2 will hardly sell as much as Overwatch even if TLOU 2 has a much bigger budget
So, if hemorrhaging money isn't making those games to sell anything more than smaller budget games, why some companies keep doing whatever they can to release much more risky games that maybe will not break even?
It's just for reflection
