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And yet Shovel Knight is doing so so great. Cuphead too. Turns out retro platformers can do great. But way too many indie retro platformers are just trash wi
by clarry 8y ago
And yet Shovel Knight is doing so so great. Cuphead too. Turns out retro platformers can do great. But way too many indie retro platformers are just trash with nothing to save them.
I don't think you can gauge success by looking at existing titles. It's like asking if there's a market for scifi novels. What do you find? People like scifi novels, and there are lots of scifi novels that suck and nobody reads them. Do people like metal music? There's tons of successful metal bands, and there's an ocean of trash.
Every work is unique.
- Mortiffer 8y agoThis makes alot of sense and now i wish there was something like open data from steam sales but for SAAS products ! I guess if you go deeper you can get a qualitative idea by judging how good a game is before including it as a data point
- cousin_it 8y ago> And yet Shovel Knight is doing so so great. Cuphead too. These outliers don't refute the rule that different markets have different odds of success.