Warner Bros. to double down on live-services after Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League tanks

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curl-6 said:

Soundwave said:

Splatoon did it ... it was also like their first IP to sell 5+ million that wasn't one of the Wii/DS casual titles in like what? 20+ years? 

Metroid still can't sell over 5 million reliably. 

It's not that easy. 

There are "reasonable budget" games available that people don't give a shit about and don't sell. 

Wii/DS being "casual" doesn't mean they magically don't exist. 

Metroid is a niche series, that's got nothing to do with the viability of non-AAA games.

The idea that publishers absolutely must spend hundreds of millions of dollars per title to make their games sell, and that therefore their only choice is to make live service games is ridiculous and false. 

There are countless popular games that are not AAA.

How many "countless popular" games that are not AAA can you list that aren't

A) Made By Nintendo

B) Don't Rely On Existing, Established License with nostalgia attached to it

C) Not low-cost "indie" games

There's not actually a ton.