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If a studio downsizes, they might be able to survive making lower budget games. And while it's true that if every studio does this, the industry would get bette
by chii 3y ago
If a studio downsizes, they might be able to survive making lower budget games. And while it's true that if every studio does this, the industry would get better, there's incentive for _one_ studio to pump up their funding and make a super-high-fidelity game, and grab all marketshare.
This makes it a 'race to the bottom' style (or a race to the top?) competition, where higher funding gets you more marketshare, but only against lower funded studios. It's akin to advertising budgets. Mostly a zero sum game in the end.
- brucethemoose2 3y ago> super-high-fidelity game, and grab all marketshare This is not necessarily true any more. I think smaller studios chipping away for a long time are making better games than most big ones.
- BeFlatXIII 3y agoHopefully this dynamic creates a cascading market crash to wipe out all the biggest players and force the industry back to its proper size.