That next Xbox rumoured to be on the way? The one supposedly codenamed 'Durango'? Well it'll let us enjoy much better textures and character models thanks to all those extra polygons.
The bad news is that because there's more room to enjoy visual content developers need to spend more time on them, driving up costs and lead time. Next PlayStation to suffer too.
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.
Which means more Quality!
Why should it cost more, it doesn't on the PC.
First it was "we can't do what we want with current gen", now it's "it'll cost too much on next gen". Are these people never happy? What's wrong with challenging yourselves to do what you can with what you've got, be it hardware or money?
Yeah, and used game sales are the new pandemic plaguing poor poor publishers. Ohhh those poor publishers!
Generally when things like assets are created for games, they are created at a much higher quality than the platform it is being created for can run. This is done for scaling as its much easier to remove the quality and complexity of something than add to it. Hence one would think that with more powerful hardware, at least where we are getting to, it is more likely that the original asset created will simply "drop in" without any type of altering. Now, the last time I checked, removing a step or steps from production, reduces cost.
Keep on spinning.
I find this odd coming from a developer. Can't be a graphic artist. The thing is, when 3D models are made for modern games, you first make a high poly model, then bake the details into a normal map, then you make a low poly version of the model and in runtime the model and normal map work together to make the low poly model look like it's more detailed than it actually is.
What I'm saying is, the high poly models are already being made, so why would it be more expensive next gen? All they have to do is make a slightly less low poly version of the high poly version. If anything, it should translate into less work.
Article states the captain obvious lol. Did we really need a article to tell us that. Like someone stated above, just wait a couple of weeks before purchasing the game. Imo you have games like half life, gta series, killzone and uncharted series which truely deserve my money day 1 other than that a majority of multiplat titles can wait a month or.2 to iron out bugs/glitches etc so u get the best gaming experience anyway after numerous patches