Tico on 30 June 2024
| LegitHyperbole said: 8th gen, there has never been such a golden age of gaming. |
For me it is clear that the golden age of games was play1/nintendo64/saturn. And the facts I refer:
Goldeneye (1997):
10 employees
2.5 million
2.5 years
Result: 8 million copies sold
The last of us II (2020):
+200 employees
+200 million
6 years
Updates and patches that increase the cost
Result: 10 million copies sold.
Making games has a cost. And if it doesn't generate enough profits then the companies lose but we also lose: microtransactions, they launch the incomplete game so they can then sell us a DLC, they refuse to create new IPs, etc.
The only one that does it well is Nintendo.
