Gaming Blend "If you don't like getting your gaming news, previews and reviews from hack websites, armchair warriors and everyman bloggers, you're in for a rude awakening: printed game magazines are dying."
Game industry working conditions are improving, but occupational burnout still runs amok. Studios and workers have the power to slow it down.
Quite being abusive to the workers and hold management accountable.
The acclaimed open world action RPG is "underperforming" where its sales are concerned, according to industry analyst Daniel Ahmad.
“Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth Has Reportedly Sold About Half of What FF7 Remake Did in the Same Timeframe”
Makes sense to me since the current PS5 base is about half of what the PS4 base was when FFVII Remake released.
There were about 113 million PS4’s in consumers hands worldwide in 2020 when FFVII Remake was released (towards the beginning of COVID lockdown no less).
PS5 sales currently sits at about half of that (50-something million. We are not in COVID lockdown so many people are not as bored as they were 4 years ago and not in a rush to buy every video game coming out at release. Some PS4 owners may not have upgraded to PS5 yet and therefore can’t buy the sequel yet. And, of course, some who played Remake just might not be interested in Rebirth.
It just seems pretty disingenuous for an analyst to ‘analyze’ a situation when there are so many mitigating and unequal factors involved.
Unfortunate but it's the reality of sequels. And I simply just don't hear much people talk about rebirth and even remake as these titles just seem too hard to get into with many newcomers and old fans that are upset with the many changes.
well, according to some other reports, it had 2.1 mio. players in the first week.
so, who to believe now.
Josh Sawyer tweets: "I believe burnout has already replaced crunch as the primary hazard of the game industry. Managers are setting teams up to fail and devs are getting ground up as collateral damage. I have suffered from burnout myself. It's no joke. Thanks to @thewritegame and @Eeoor for the talk.
As with crunch, it's likely that managers may acknowledge creating the circumstances leading to burnout but will not take the necessary steps to change them. It's important that devs continue to talk to and support each other and to apply pressure until change is effected."
Yea with the internet around who really cares about those. You can have all the info from those mags on a phone if you wanted to. Tech has moved on.
I read all my magazines on a tablet anyway.
It's sad, because I still enjoy picking up and reading a gaming mag cover to cover (and basically grew up with Official PlayStation Magazine and the like). But although paid-for print media is in decline anyway, the specific problem facing monthly gaming magazines is that they're often way behind the curve when it comes to news, reviews and previews. People have simply already read those online days or even weeks before the magazines hit the streets.
magazines got nothing on me, i go to n4g for my latest gaming news! where the winners go! :/.....
yeah thats why game informer is doing so well and alot of other magazines can be found in print