Here we go again from today.
Warner Bros. Discovery wants to move away from "one and done volatile" AAA console model and move more towards cheaper F2P titles that had longer revenue tails:
https://www.gamespot.com/articles/warner-bros-discusses-volatile-aaa-console-games-will-lean-into-free-to-play-and-mobile/1100-6521597/?ftag=CAD-01-10abi2f&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
They literally had the no.1 selling game last year in Hogwarts Legacy, lol. The publisher of the no.1 selling game even wants out ... that's not a flattering picture of the AAA market. These games are way too expensive.
And just as I've said now all the suits want GAAS titles where they can milk more money from these games.
The truth is all this is good for Nintendo in the console space, rising budgets means business-minded suits will be put in charge of all these 3rd parties, and even at the head of Playstation and XBox too ... and those new presidents/higher ups will all have a mandate to maximize profit margins and increase the potential buyer base of their top properties as their entire focus. That's good for Nintendo, they already know how to make games at a reasonable budget, so that's not going to really bother them.
The dumb pettiness of the past where some of these companies had people in change still sour at Nintendo for some shit that happened back in 1992 or something is going to be flushed down the toilet where it belongs and you're to have these money-lapping suits desperate to put all their content everywhere they can, which means more 3rd party content is going to come to Nintendo, the Switch 2 probably will be the most strongly supported Nintendo platform by 3rd parties since the Super NES.
Switch wins, PC wins, Playstation and XBox platforms though are going to be losers in all this. They will lose basically all their exclusives and 3rd party exclusives will also go the way of the dodo. The only platform that's going to have big exclusives left will be the Switch 2 and on top of that it will get a bunch of 3rd party franchises Nintendo has been locked out of.
Last edited by Soundwave - on 05 March 2024
