tl;dr Over the last few years, what used to be a flood of high-profile releases slowed to a trickle, however, and by 2022 it was more like a slow drip. Most p

tl;dr Over the last few years, what used to be a flood of high-profile releases slowed to a trickle, however, and by 2022 it was more like a slow drip. Most people’s first answer would probably be the pandemic. But the truth is, the AAA landscape has been shrinking for years. Everything has gotten too big, too expensive. The math is simple: games take longer to make, and need more developers to make them, so we are getting fewer of them.