The gaming industry could stand to ask itself this more often

"if i keep throwing money at it, it'll be good eventually... right?!" - every video game publisher

 

I'm surprised this thread made it four pages without a full-on shitstorm

gj Koi Herpes, you surpassed expectations

 

I'd rather keep digital as an option for games with big publishers, instead of being a requirement. Neither physical nor digital solves all of our consumer issues, so let us have both when both are possible. Indie games have a valid reason to not be sold on physical media

And I'd rather have a game that uses what assets it needs well, instead of having a bunch of assets that it barely uses and ends up costing millions for no good reason.

 

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Welp, I can always count on KHV to make me look like an idiot.

 

It's all about knowing your demographic and having reasonable expectations. Games like Uncharted and Heavy Rain are naturally going to sell a lot more than games like Hat in Time and Shantae. As long as the game makes money, the budget hasn't been too high. Unless it barely breaks even.

There's also the fact that Sony has to make software that sells their systems and people nowadays want big budget games, with a few exceptions.

 

So clearly the solution is to have every single game be re imagined as a platformer from the 90s
genius

 

Platinum profits off their pitiful selling games every time because they keep the budgets low. I'm not saying be a platformer, because that'd be dumb, I'm saying it's business 101 to not spend a lot of money if you're not making a lot of money. Genius.

And what's super genius is your view. You want all these genres that are expensive to make but if they keep dumping money into them, especially with budgets getting higher for next-gen, then every game will be a cheap 90s platformer because no one can afford to make anything else. I don't think you realize that Capcom has a budget to make TWO RE6's right now. That's it. Then their bank runs dry.

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I'm more focused on Squeenix here than Sony who probably spent similar on Tomb Raider, sold a lot of copies and got nothing back. Same with RE6. Decrease the studio sizes and budgets overall.

Cliffy B was wrong when he said games needed big budgets because DARK SOULS.

 

And we ALMOST went a full four pages without somebody saying something utterly dumbtarded

but as usual Hatok has to screw up everything

 

Maybe my smart post filled with math and biznez sense will help him here.

Nova, can we just have every post contain a pic of Dark Souls?

 

when did you go full dick anyways

 

We need to commish some fanart of Raiden and Leo having a laugh with a Mastermind and Chosen Undead and just spam it everywhere

OKOTTE IRU?

 

Mm hm
Okay, so where's the brilliant biznez in comparing a cinematic... adventure thing... to kickstarted retro style paltformers?
There are different games, some of them cost money

 

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Boy it's like you missed the part where I mentioned different genres and Dark Souls....

 

It's almost like you didn't mention those games in the post I quoted.

 

It's almost like you didn't read all of the posts to see if your question was answered in one of them.