Tico said:
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 the players: 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.
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I mean it's a golden age for us gamers, not the publishers/Devs even though there was a gold rush for indies 8th gen. And yeah, there was a lot of that but it's mainly clear waters with a few stagnant blotches here and there. The good outweighs the bad ten fold.