Ryuu96 said:
It's outpacing all Remedy's previous titles, Lol. Alan Wake was never a huge IP but it'll break even, eventually. Doesn't help it's Epic Store exclusive. |
Breaking even is a loss because if you are not making a profit, it's hard to greenlit another project with a certain amount of budget and risk a miss. A company cannot sustain itself breaking even as one miss will basically nuke it. In a high-risk industry like games, it really makes the next projects even more important, but it also make the company want to reduce as much risk as possible, so they get into those corp mindset where they kill basically any risk and go for things, they believe is less risky.
Maybe the solution is to make PC only small risky cheap games with as much innovation you can throw at it to see how it fares and go from there. Its funny if Disney and some of these other companies with sellable properties are looking at the market and thinking we can make a killing hiking up our license fees and profit margins because the industry is so risk adverse, they will look for anything that reduce risk.
