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I saw some hysterical Twitter thread a couple days ago claiming that the end of AAA games was nigh. There are some weird vibes out there. It's absolutely true
by TillE 3y ago
I saw some hysterical Twitter thread a couple days ago claiming that the end of AAA games was nigh. There are some weird vibes out there.
It's absolutely true that there have been a ton of layoffs in the past ~12 months. But I've seen zero evidence of actual sales slowing down. 2023 saw a ton of big hits, from Zelda to Diablo to Baldur's Gate.
- kobalsky 3y ago> that the end of AAA games was nigh this kind of running-it-dry is what is killing "AAA" (big quotes) games: https://en.as.com/meristation/news/ubisoft-has-11-assassins-creed-games-in-the-works-n/ https://en.as.com/meristation/news/ubisoft-has-11-assassins-...
- Tiktaalik 3y agoso much of game dev is work for hire that if the big publicly traded companies tap the breaks on things for a few months to mull over market direction or to make their stock price look better, it doesn't mean anything for the publishers, but results in a wave of game cancelations and layoffs for the tiny work for hire studios way down the line. That's what is happening right now. May well be that in 2025/2026 we see a light year of releases.
- minimaxir 3y agoThe AAA gaming economics are a different issue: budgets have ballooned so much that it's near impossible to hit breakeven. The games you mentioned are extreme outliers (no one expected BG3 to do as well as it did), and there have been a number of studio-killing bombs this year.
- local_crmdgeon 3y agoCan you name them? I have a lot of anger at the AAA studios
- Tiktaalik 3y agoSpiderman 2. What the parent is referencing is things we know from the Insomniac leak.
- coffeebeqn 3y agoGreat year for games , not for game developers. I’m under no illusion that games are dying or anything like that