Thread 718584842

How come the industry and gaming media keep shilling AAA graphics, but when you see the most played games on steam and twitch they look like this?

>>718584842 (OP)
AAA games are mostly just a dog and pony show for investors and government bureaucrats who don't play videogames.
>Oh wow Mr. Video game publisher, you say you need government grants to make this impressive game? This will give much prestige to our country.
>Why are we discussing videogames in a shareholder meeting?
And then they spend 10 years embezzling money from France or whatever.

>>718584842 (OP)
It's some sort of weird cognitive dissonance. I don't know why they do this shit.

>>718584842 (OP)
That is the most played because Brazilians or Russians or Indonesians still using GTX 970s can play it all day, every day.
The issue is that 80% of those Brazilians are pirates and the other 20% wait for sales to buy anything. Or worse, they only play at internet cafes where the games are bought once and then used by a dozen people a day. No one is making any money off them.
The AAA market targets wealthier demographics that will pay for games and do so at full price close to release date. Where they're going to make their money back and be able to keep the lights on and pay off debt in a timely fashion.

>>718585342
most profitable games are chink gacha, not western AAA realism.

>>718585716
Those are still extremely expensive to make and maintain. MiHoYo has broken the bank many times over on Genshin in order to keep paypiggies happy.
Regardless, there's also a pride thing for everyone outside of the gacha community vs inside. Where no dev, even indie dev, wants to make a gacha game because they're viewed as lower status and something that you harm your honor and reputability making or interacting with.

because people eventually realized king's field was the peak of videogames

because the only people who actually care about graphics are investors and hardware manufacturers. if you dont think nvidia is getting a kickback for every UE5 game then you are naive

>>718587267
cope
your 3700k and gtx 1080ti isn't cutting it anymore fred

>>718584842 (OP)
you can't buy soul but you can buy an army of artists to copy reality

>>718587448
i dont even play video games

>>718587503
like pottery

>>718584842 (OP)
Because pretty games are for making you feel good about the money you spent on that graphics card, and fun games are for when you've gotten over it.