Forbes - This article over at Kotaku is focused almost entirely on the different mindset gamers and game developers have in Japan compared to the West when it comes to things like PC gaming, cloud computing, and so forth.
As of right now, there are no monopolies in the games industry, and for the sake of the medium as a whole, they never should either.
And yet the biggest tech companies in America are essentially that. They buy up all the small comps only to kill them off and steal what they have, and if they can't buy em they bleed them to death.
They buy IPs not talent. That's why these buyouts never work and the IPs die. Right now it's too expensive to develop games - but I expect that to shift maybe as AI tools can make it easier. The best games have been indie games for awhile as big developers fuck their ips to death with "games as a service" -
INDIE Live Expo, Japan’s premiere online digital showcase series , will debut never-before-seen games & content updates across more than 100 titles on May 25th.
"The best games of the year and the creative teams behind them were in the spotlight at the grand award ceremony of the German Computer Game Award 2024." - German Computer Game Awards.
They do it for the hits. I'm sure they know half their headlines are ridiculous. It's part of the reason you don't see their stories on this site anymore unless another site is reporting their stupidity.
I haven't checked out anything Kotaku had to say for ablut 6 years now. Ever since they tried the hardest to put the PS3 down.
Wow, Forbes wrote this? That's awesome. Kotaku needs to be called out for that bullsh*t.
I never understood the negativity on N4G towards Kotaku until that headline. I get it now.
Kotaku is a piece of garbage! This is why i dont click on there articles anymore! And they will lose credibility amongst developers and the industry as a whole, those attention shoes bastards
Thank you, Forbes. Great read and so true.
It's a device to get hits that many people who post articles on N4G use, most likely learned from Kotaku.