Conina said:
...if you ignore the PC, iOS and Android as gaming platforms. I doubt that the Switch games revenue will be higher than $38Bn, if the total of Switch, PlayStation + Xbox is at $53.2Bn:
Annual hardware revenue for gaming PCs is probably also a lot higher, when already most GPUs cost more than complete consoles. |
I should have clarified "video game console" that said that doesn't really disprove the point I was making.
Switch + mobile combined would be over 50% of the market comfortably by the chart you posted there, which makes them the majority of video game platforms, those are what most people would term "lower end platforms", but they are the market majority.
It's really not consumers en masse that are pushing Sony/MS/certain 3rd parties to keep increasing their budgets ridiculously, even if you look at the top selling games every year, it's not like they are the best looking games.
Call of Duty looks solid, but it's not like those games are a technical showcase any longer. Hogwarts Legacy got a big boost last year from a scaled down looking Switch port and also runs on last gen consoles. Tears of the Kingdom might be the no.1 selling game but Nintendo doesn't include their digital data (which must have been significant) to NPD so we can't compare directly, but as is it was up there as one of the best selling games last year. This year already you have Palworld putting up monster numbers.
Spider-Man 2 cost significantly more than Spider-Man 1 to make for example ($300 million vs. $180 million) ... is it going to sell 60% more copies? I doubt it. The hilarious thing is I don't even think the graphics bump there was even that great given how much more money they spent making the game. Like if that's all an extra $120 million (almost double your budget) gets you, that's pretty sad.
"Graphics whores" are actually a small portion of the market, to increase your budgets 50%, 60% every 5-6 years to chase this audience is stupid, people are losing their jobs because now Sony/MS/EA/other 3rd parties are hitting the panic button realizing their costs are skyrocketing but the profits are not growing in line with the rising costs.
That's not really even greed, that's just business reality, there's no business on the planet where you could increase their costs by 50% and the business is just going to go "ho hum, no big deal, lets not react to that at all". Like some people are really oblivious to how a business runs.
Last edited by Soundwave - on 01 March 2024
