The industry is eating itself.

[firebush03]

LegitHyperbole said:

firebush03 said:

Are you being legit? No hyperbole? (Part II.) I feel like 2023 discredits your thesis… there were five games to sell over 10mil copies (Hogwarts, TotK, BG3, SMWonder, SM2), console sales figures exceeded expectations (e.g., NSW outperformed their 15mil fiscal forecast by nearly 1.5mil), etc.

4 months ago would you have said Borderlands 4 and The Outer Worlds 2 will be lucky to break even? Things are different now, it's not 2023 anymore. 

The problem here isn’t weak sales figures; it’s the inflated dev budgets. If Borderlands 4 sold 10mil copies, the average price spent by consumers would need be $30, which noting how Borderlands games quickly sell for very cheap, 10mil copies wouldn’t even be a guaranteed success. I mean…it’d be likely, but the point should be clear. (Also, weak sales figures aren’t necessary a consequence of a bloated market. Sometimes games are just unappealing. Borderlands 4, in particular, hasn’t caught my eye all too much, though I’m very far from the target demographic.)