Brian Shea from VGW discusses the reasons why the Wii-U may not be as dead in the water as we'd like to think...and a few reasons why the console may have already failed.
Deliver Us Mars developer Keoken Interactive has laid off the majority of its staff after struggling to secure funding …
The industry model and standards and who's in place to approve/disapprove have changed ^ what Keoken is feeling now is much like the Mobile burst 15 years ago. Expect more to come out of your own finances. Investors are treating games like movies and now (thank$ a lot for involving yourself hollywood) only the big (and money blind) investors get involved, effectively killing a lot of content that would come out with proper non-gate-kept and/or with incentivized funding.
Sorry but i couldn't care less, Deliver us Mars was as woke game as they come, climate change disaster, all female cast plus only a comic relief indian guy (it takes only 5 minutes into the game for the main female character to say how smart she is compared to the guy), evil white guys, ugly females, then add generic gameplay and puzzles (how many times do you have to cut things with a laser for gods sake), you can't change anything in how the events develop so 0 agency in the story, sub par graphics even while using UE4. So well, go woke go broke, that's how it works.
That stinks but with a 68 average critic rating on their games probably made it difficult for people to invest considering there is a bloat of games getting made these days.
Mat Piscatella of analyst firm Circana has revealed that the PS5 was the market leader in North America for both unit and dollar sales during not only March 2024, but the first quarter of the year as a whole.
Writing on Twitter, Piscatella revealed that spending for video game hardware in February 2024 dropped 32% in comparison to the same period last year, totalling $391 million. In addition, spending for PS5, Xbox Series X/S and Nintendo Switch each fell a minimum of 30% year-on-year.
But PS5 and Switch still outsells XBOX embarrassingly even with overall consoles sales decline.
Najam from eXputer: "The norm of $60 AAA games is no more as developers now charge more for their games. Here's why this might not be a bad thing for gamers."
*Elden Ring type games, yeah sure. (scoring 8+)
(AAA/quadruple A) slop can shove it up their discounted ass
In recent yrs my purchasing In Indies has increased and its decreased for major IP's because I cba with the lack of innovative gameplay.
Focusing on the topic, why not mention Take-Two CEO getting his pay increased while axing 500 staff? I'm getting annoyed that those practices get ignored by the "gaming" media because ya don't want to burn potential bridges but seriously, gtfo.
It's a bad thing for gamers and for in the chair game devs. We just heard of massive layoffs across the industry.
I'd pay more if I read articles about how they were hiring. I'd pay more if I read articles about how the people who made the game scored record setting pay raises and CEOs were no longer given 1 year bonuses that could sustain a small studio for 10 years.
But that's not what happened.
Yeah there's only so much people are willing to pay for entertainment. Especially in the form of games at the same time that there are free to play games and cheaper in the titles that compete with triple A. You're not going to be able to keep increasing pricing and get the same amount of sales. I already don't buy games at the new price or even at $60. I wait for $40 or less. And I don't believe I'm alone in that department. If you don't have any other expenses you can probably continue to afford buying games at the top price but many people eventually have other things that take priority and you're just not going to spend it that much money on a video game.
Heck if I have to play one game for the rest of my life I'd probably end up playing Warframe or Counter-Strike. These are all either free games or were paid games and now are free.
The AAA industry is a threat to the gaming industry. They're trying to continue to ride the way and keep increasing prices. They're trying to get all of the money as long as they're able to.
It's bad. People just want good games at decent prices. Not everything has to be super realistic with 200 voice actors. Look at Palworld.
Boy bill gates is at it again!! I wonder if he ever gets hand cramps by writing all these so called FAIR articles on the wii u, I cannot wait to see all the articles on how the ps4 can fail, OH WAIT, THAT'S IMPOSSIBLE RIGHT??? just garbage and now the doom and gloomers are trying to play both sides, like the wii u could, COULD, survive, but really it's already doomed!! WOW! the wii u is going to last, but hey, what ever helps the delusional trolls sleep at night!
The three reasons it can't are a bit weak as they are dynamic, in that the current situation can change in regards to third party and sales, with the last one being unconfirmed. Nobody knows how powerful the Wii U is. All we know is that it was capable of running PC assets of a late 2012 game with incredible ease (See Need For Speed Most Wanted U).
We also know that developers are only using a 1 out of 3 of the cores with their games (See Project Cars & Nano Assault Neo). Project Cars is a 2014 game that looks gorgeous. At the very least, we know that the system hasn't maxed it's full potential.
Other than that though, nice article.
WiiU
Such a disappointment.
Reasons for Success:
* Super Mario 3D World
* Mario Kart 8
* DK: Tropical Freeze
* Pikmin 3
* Sonic Lost World
* Pokemon Rumble
* Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker HD
* Super Smash Brothers
* Bayonetta 2
* Legend of Zelda U
* X
*FExSMT
* Rayman Legends
* COD: Ghosts
* The Wonderful 101
Reasons for failure:
People don't realize the games I listed above actually exist.