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7/20/2025, 3:59:13 AM
>>11881471
The CEO of Insomniac said something along the lines of all the publishers and platform developers were starting to force studios into a certain direction during the 6th gen. Specifically that they wanted to target teenagers, because they thought it would get their younger siblings too. That's why the 6th gen had a ton of edgy platformers. Jak and Daxter, Ratchet and Clank, Vex, Blinkx, Shadow the Hedgehog's game, etc.
The important point is that this was when publishers were starting to exercise more control over the developers, and it got even worse as time went on. By the 7th gen publishers were forcing on disc DLC, preorder DLC, multiplayer modes that didn't need to exist, changing an existing franchises entire genre to try and capture a bigger audience, etc...
The CEO of Insomniac said something along the lines of all the publishers and platform developers were starting to force studios into a certain direction during the 6th gen. Specifically that they wanted to target teenagers, because they thought it would get their younger siblings too. That's why the 6th gen had a ton of edgy platformers. Jak and Daxter, Ratchet and Clank, Vex, Blinkx, Shadow the Hedgehog's game, etc.
The important point is that this was when publishers were starting to exercise more control over the developers, and it got even worse as time went on. By the 7th gen publishers were forcing on disc DLC, preorder DLC, multiplayer modes that didn't need to exist, changing an existing franchises entire genre to try and capture a bigger audience, etc...
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