It is pretty insane how these days a developer might work like 1/4th or even 1/3rd of his entire professional career making just one AAA video game.

>>712884229 (OP)
>5-6 year long dev cycles to mean nearly identical shit (most of the time)
>200m+ budgets

why can't it all crash and burn already so they can go back to small studios, budgets and dev time

>>712884906
Because there's too much money to be made

>>712884906

>>712884229 (OP)
That's what happens when you take almost fifteen fucking years to make another game.

>>712885045
how many cooncords and failguards will it take for venture kikes to move on from this industry?
or just invest in sports and COD

>>712884229 (OP)
That's still really only something that Cockstar or Bethesda devs have. Though I guess Blizzard might also apply with WoW.

>>712885124
It's crazy how bad they fucked up Cyberpunk's release.

>>712885427
I'm surprised we still don't have any insider stories about the development hell and why they made so many drastic changes from their original vision.

>>712884906
>>712884229 (OP)
It already has. That's why Microsoft and Tencent bought everything.

>>712885239
Thats the issue, the AAA scene is so diversified even if one or two companies go under the industry as a whole will still survive. There's no real situation where one big flop takes everyone out all at once.

>>712885427
Honestly I still blame Sony for that and how they obviously majorly changed the game and entire story to facilitate Keanu. Sony wanting the game to run on a base ps4 definitely fucked them extremely hard. There was no fucking way the game was EVER going to run on a base ps4 and it showed on release. The vast amount of the bugs you saw around release were from the ps4 version.

>>712885527
cyberpunk was a big theme in Poland before 2077

there is this really good horror cyberpunk game called Observer that is set in Poland in 2048

>>712885539
more i learn about this big corporation/VCs more they feel like bunch of retarded gamblers just making impulsive decisions
>buy all the studios
>shut down half of them
>keep that one idc if their game failed
>fire all those guy
>you made that great SP game? work on live service slop
>game you were working on? scrap that make some ip slop
>never mind all of you are fired that ip is in the dumps
>you negros still haven't made the BLack panther game? here have 50mil and 2 more years
>remaster the 3 year old game no not the one people are asking for

you probably have never heard of this unless you lived in Poland

>>712885706
no i meant what happened during the development because at some point they realized
they are not even close to their vision and just duct taped every thing they had and released it

>>712885879
yea they realised they were not even close to their vison and ducted taped everything together last 18 months

>>712885631
I guess they dropped support for their game in 2022 for all PS4s. Didn't even support it for two full years before they dropped it.

>>712885748
Electronic Arts started it.
They even managed to kill Ultima.

>>712885818
I pirated it

>>712885818
i heard of it because i like rutger hauer
F

>>712885818
I bought it for my Series X for less than $20 but I never opened it.

>>712885987
Ultima could have been relaunched as a series so easily, yet here we are. Nothing.

>>712884229 (OP)
it's not really insane when you make a cash cow like gtao which let's be honest is the dream of any dev who goes into aaa development. also i doubt the housers had even touched the day to day development for many, many years. if you want to talk insane look at all the companies and people who lined up to throw money at dan houser after he left and he has done fuckall since.

>>712885748
>>712885987
Nobody higher up is actually intelligent. They all fail upward or were put there by a friend/relative. I used to think "it's only accountants in the board rooms these days!!" And maybe that was true in the 90s/2000s but not anymore. These companies are making decisions that are losing tens of MILLIONS of dollars every project through mistakes that could have been corrected simply. But they keep doing it. Look at Disney. Bomb after bomb, critical failures, nobody actually thinks the live action remakes are better. But they keep doing it. Stock prices keep plummeting. Why? I don't know.

>>712885239
As long as there is just one game like Fortnite or GTA Online, there will be venture capitalists who dream of getting their hands on multibillions like that.
"Safe" investors are generally not interested in video games in the first place anyways. They already are inherently so volatile high risk high reward investment, that people seeking steady growth and stable profits have much better options for their investments.

>>712885124
>Shartfield took as much time as RDR 2

>>712886425
>Disney.
they basically print money with their resorts and massive kids/family friendly catalogues on disney +

so they can keep appeasing retarded lib minority creator and chinse audience that apparently loves the CGI slop

i assume same is true for all the other corporations they so grandfathered in they can just do whatever and still make more money than anyone else

i am not leftard but this form of capitalism back by governments really sucks ass

>>712885748
>buy all the studios
>shut down half of them
>keep that one idc if their game failed
Reminder that the pretty much only criteria for Microsoft's studio closures whenever they do layoff waves is to check out how close the studio is into shipping the next game. That is why Tango Gameworks got the axe but Ninja Theory did not despite Senua II costing a fuckton but making a fuckall, Tango Gameworks did not have a next project pitched yet but Ninja Theory had Project: Mara far enough in production.

>>712886475
i am hoping for some retards to spend 500m+ on some open world slop after gta 6 makes gazzlion dollars in first week

>>712886425
>Look at Disney.
Those are mob kids that went to college and learned that being woke was a new way to control people and take money from them.

>>712886632
that's exactly what i had in mind

these corporations will burn all the art in existence if it means 0.03% more growth in this quarter

>>712885818
Wtf are you talking about? Observer isn't some obscure niche game, it was Bloober only half decent attempt at game if anything, it had Rutger Hauer in it, it was talked about a bunch.

>>712886425
>Look at Disney. Bomb after bomb, critical failures, nobody actually thinks the live action remakes are better. But they keep doing it. Stock prices keep plummeting. Why? I don't know.
https://youtu.be/W-l2oFKZNak

>>712886616
>they can just do whatever and still make more money than anyone else
As a share holder, this isn't working anymore. Almost all of the streaming apps were huge money sinks. They keep spending hundreds of millions on budgets for shows that nobody is watching. It only took them until now to start adding ads for revenue. We already saw what happened when covid had to shut down Disney, they kept buying studios and they ended up 65 billion in debt.

Allmost all of the huge studios made big but stupid purchases. Like Sega buying Rovio and Sony buying Bungie in billions for studios that basically were at their peak 2 console generations ago.

Gaming was so much better before the jews got ahold of it. They legitimately ruin everything good on this planet, it’s crazy.

>>712885124
The majority of these games are worse than any random indie game developed in some autists' free time and released on steam for 15 bucks. I fucking hate normalniggers for ruining video games by buying slop over and over.

>>712887180
idk about other but disney can stop pumping at any time and still keep making money because Americans love shitty micky mouse resorts and kids watch car2 27 fucking times

>>712887313
>The majority of these games are worse than any random indie game developed in some autists' free time and released on steam for 15 bucks.
unironically why i love next fest with all the demos from small devs who are still trying to make games

>>712887281
Iran is scrambling to get a nuke together to wipe Israel off the map and Americans voted for the only man in America who would put boots on the ground in Iran to defend Israel from that possibility.

>>712885631
They claim to have learned their lesson and Witcher 4 will use consoles as the main platform. Cyberpunk targeted high end pcs and tried to downsize it to ps4 afterwards.

>>712884229 (OP)
Stamper has gone a long way.
Rest in power, king.

>>712884229 (OP)
GTA V was a PS3 era game.

>>712887348
Anon, this ain't working anymore. Yes, people still go to the parks, but those places are getting too expensive. Look at their failed Star Wars crusie, and Star Wars was supposed to be this huge money maker. But we also live in a time where parents don't have time to take their kids to the movies. Before, believe me, I would have dads tell me they take their kids to the theatre to shut them up, rewatching the same shitty kids movie 10 or more times. But I feel like now the wait and just pay the $30 or whatever for the day 1 digital releases. And the kid can watch it over and over because now the kids are always on tablets or phones watching YouTube/social media content.

>>712887281
Jews invented Hollywood, back when movies were even better and uncensored. I think a lot of people forget that.

>>712887524
They were stupid for targeting high end PCs. Devs today don't want to make a good game anymore. They want to make some visual spectacle. That's why the audio has to be Hollywood studio quality and uncompressed. Visuals have to be ultra detailed and ultra realism. We need big name celebrity actors or face scans. No local multiplayer anymore. Like they're pushing everyone onto huge 300GB games that need a graphics card that runs WORSE when you turn on its latest feature. Storage space is expensive, bandwidth is slow in some places, and graphics look like they're getting worse because it's like nobody knows how to do programming tricks anymore.

>>712885124
There's no way RE4R cost 100m to make

>>712884229 (OP)
You ever see the "babies" section of a game's credits? Or the "special thanks"?

People live and die making these games.

>>712888186
Should been a ps4 era honestly

>>712888186
>>712888410
They downgraded the game for more profits. They told you: we care more about money than you getting a quality game. And the cucks rewarded them for the behavior.

AAA really is cancer for everyone involved

>>712887520
>Americans voted for the only man in America who would put boots on the ground in Iran to defend Israel from that possibility.
What? There isn't one that wouldn't defend israel. There might ships, but there won't be any American boots on the ground.

>Several series were able to get like 3 mainline titles and a couple of spinoffs every console generation.
>Now you're lucky to get even one game per generation, even if that series is still considered alive and healthy.

>>712887520
Honestly he's the only one that might actually tell them no. I know that's not the public word being shared right now. They don't need our help. Yet they threaten us when we say we don't want any part of it.
No world leader should say America dead in any kind of sentence.

>>712885748
That's what happens when you get rich enough that you start buying studios like a stock and start seeing them as nothing more than numbers
>buy as much of studio as possible to diversify risks
>close studio down that starts showing a sign of reds
>in red because they were developing a game and they were about to see huge returns once they release it? Don't care having a period of red is a bad look to investors
>make live service games and remasters from 2 years ago that can be made in a month to show constant green, it activates me and my investor's neurons
>dump money on a DEI nigger game so I can brag about how I'm losing money for the society in the investor parties, they love that shit
and no it's not the most efficient way to make profit, 99% of those people aren't where they are because they are a good businessman, it's mostly luck, being a borderline con man, and nepotism.
It does make just enough to continue their meaningless status quo though.

>>712884229 (OP)
that's how software development works sometimes.
>t. software dev

>>712885124
TOTK costing that much is crazy
it's a literal asset swap of BOTW

>>712890243
I'm pretty sure Nintendo has relatively high salary expenses for a Japanese company and they try to avoid crunching to make deadlines, it is one of the most desired workplaces in Japan for a reason.

>>712885124
those 5+ year dev cycles are utterly insane and stupid
whats worse is that dont really match the hype they try to drum up
the c suites and suits in these companies are out of their minds
the only one that looks reasonable here is kojima