Layoffs in Gaming (Current State of the Gaming Industry)

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Soundwave said:

haxxiy said:

Japan has strong labor laws that protect from arbitrary employee dismissals. There's no magic sauce involved here or anything.

Most Japanese devs have given up on the graphics arms race too. 

You look at almost all Japanese games, most of them don't really push the envelope visually anymore. It's basically just the Final Fantasy games and even that like FF7 Rebirth is clearly just remixing a lot of PS4-era assets and still running on the older Unreal Engine 4 from last gen. If it didn't do that you'd probably be waiting another 2 years for this game to come out. 

Looking at Capcom, it's going to be like 5 years into this gen before they release a major game that isn't a PS4-cross gen title, and quite frankly Monster Hunter Wilds looks fairly underwhelming for a generational graphics leap (probably they are targeting a Switch 2 version because it will sell like 10 million copies there and they can't say no to that). 

Capcom is releasing Dragon's Dogma 2 in just a few weeks lol. 

I agree with your other points though. Pragmata would probably the most graphically impressive looking game Capcom puts out before the next Resident Evil releases.