Remedy Entertainment's Head of Communication Thomas Puha openly stated that the traditional AAA single player experience is really expensive to make now as costs have gone up tenfold, suggesting that's part of why Remedy is now looking to add cooperative multiplayer to its new games.
Embracer CEO demonstrates a masterclass in mental gymnastics in latest interview.
"I'm sure I deserve a lot of criticism, but I don't think my team or companies deserve all the criticism. I could take a lot of that blame myself. But ultimately I need to believe in the mission," he said.
OK give us Kingdoms of Amalur 2 with AAA budget and we will accept your excuse
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Turned based Phantasy Star and Shinning Force remain at the top of my list of Sega IPs that need to return. At the very least I'd take a Shining Force collection that has 1,2,3, CD and the Game Gear entries.
I don't trust Sega to do a proper comeback. The games will be just remastered and/or monetized to death.
We're definitely coming to a crossroads where "story or cutting-edge graphics/tech" may be a choice we have to make more often.
How does adding co-op make a game cheaper? Are they trying to say that if Quantum Break had co-op it would have been cheaper to make?
I guess what he is really trying to say is they are going to make a really small game with tons of MT's.
Of course because single player ONLY games are not the majority of games played.
Thanks to the rise of online gaming multiplayer gaming is the bastion of gaming now.
Remedy is right. AAA is hard to sustain nowadays
maybe they're just making excuses because their game sucked and didn't sell well