Is this real? You’re comparing AAA games of the Atari era to AAA games today? You can argue that the game companies are focusing on hyper realism at the cost o

Is this real? You’re comparing AAA games of the Atari era to AAA games today? You can argue that the game companies are focusing on hyper realism at the cost of fun games, but the games we’re playing today are orders of magnitude more complex than in the Atari days. Those Atari games built on today’s technology would take comparatively little time and could be as easily ported. That likely also explains why the game industry is focused on limit pushing AAA titles. It’s a defensible market position of technical advantage whereas competing on “most fun” puts investment dollars at risk because you can be undercut by an underdog more easily. So the big companies just focus on the places where it’s harder for upstarts to compete and why almost all games look and feel very similar.