| Chrkeller said: My view is simple. Graphics will continue to be pushed. Games are scalable. Games will look and run differently on various hardware. How people elect to game is their choice. |
Budgets are not going to double/triple again like they have in the last 10 years though and that's a reality too. So "graphics will be pushed" ... not on 2x-3x the budgets the way it has been going the last 10-15 years.
That isn't tenable. At 500 million you have to sell basically almost 30 million copies of a game to make any kind of reasonable profit, how many games per generation even sell 30 million that aren't made by Nintendo?
And what happens if you have anything less than 100% hit rate and one (or gulp two) of your games underperforms? You could destroy your studio on that risk.
Most 3rd parties are going to be stuck in the 80 mill-120 mill sandbox for their "big games" in the next 10+ years IMO and even that budget range is dangerous. Lots of studios will be shut down even in that range in the coming years, no doubt about it.
Last edited by Soundwave - on 13 June 2024
