Game Industry Economics
How is it that run of the mill, "slop" games sell well enough to keep studios in business? You hear about constant layoffs and closures but these small-middle tier studios continue to churn out games you've never heard of. You know, the ones. The filler games you see at annual game presentations. The generic rouge-like, farming sims, and soulslikes.
These games are basically forgotten as soon as they're revealed and never see any media attention. It isn't that people talk about them negatively, they just aren't even talked about at all. Somehow, despite it all, these games studios continue to exist and seemingly sell well enough to spawn sequels. Who is funding them?
Has gaming just gotten to a point where it is big enough that it can sustain low quality titles that are never talked about? Is the average normie the median buyer right now? Hordes of endless normies who buys whatever they see if it sounds cool enough.
These games are basically forgotten as soon as they're revealed and never see any media attention. It isn't that people talk about them negatively, they just aren't even talked about at all. Somehow, despite it all, these games studios continue to exist and seemingly sell well enough to spawn sequels. Who is funding them?
Has gaming just gotten to a point where it is big enough that it can sustain low quality titles that are never talked about? Is the average normie the median buyer right now? Hordes of endless normies who buys whatever they see if it sounds cool enough.
