Why are western AAA releases slowing down so much?
Is this a sign of an upcoming crash?
Why are western AAA releases slowing down so much?
Thomas Myers
Bentley Torres
Because games are more expensive and take longer to make now than they did ten years ago.
James Brown
no, it just takes longer to make games now because technology has advanced and people's expectations for graphics/visuals are higher.
Brayden Foster
Nicholas Reed
Because you listed off only 6 series and didn't include Red Dead in the RS lineup, and all of the other large Western games. Bad b8 pistachio eye
Jack Diaz
It's the two giant open world franchise dev multiplat games, along with the largest two exclusive franchises for each of the consoles, it's a pretty good sample. However you can observe similar trends in the rest of the industry, including them all in one list would be impractical and the "rebuttal" would amount to the same thing "you didn't include all of them". The only series immune from this phenomenon are exceptions like Assassin's Creed.
Josiah Reyes
Proof that graphics whores ruin everything.
Jaxson Sullivan
Cause Gen 7 had a longer life cycle dickhead
Benjamin Morgan
Games are more expensive and take longer to make. This has been going on since early 2000s.
Jacob Barnes
gives me time to work on my backlog
Nathan Russell
>hurr gamedev craps out shitty games every year
>hurr gamedev actually takes its time and doesn't crap shitty games every year
Why is Yea Forums always whining about things? Also you forgot The Lost Legacy.
Jeremiah Miller
>gen 7 2005-2013 (8 years)
>gen 8 2013-2020 (7 years)
???
Easton Evans
The next Playstation and Xbox are set to release next year.
Caleb Myers
That's what I said
Andrew White
Yeah, it's almost like modern video game dev teams are somehow burdened, has to be the amazing current gen graphics, could be no other explanation for the lack of output
Juan Perry
Agreed. Absolute mystery.
Ian Bennett
Ryder Young
>Gears Pop
Such a strong release, if you want to add it, add it to this inclusive chart >Halo Infinite
A gen 9 game
James Anderson
Infinite is a scarlett game
Oliver Turner
pop is a joke, but infinite is a cross platform game
pc, xbone and scarlet
Samuel Ross
Gee it's like there's another 2 years to go
David Martinez
GTA V is on PC, gen 7 consoles, and gen 8 consoles, but it's still primarily a gen 7 game. Infinite is being designed for Scarlett and downported to the Xbone.
Benjamin Stewart
They want to nickle and dime you. Season Pass DLC not on season pass. Cosmetics to buy with IRL money. Lootboxes. List goes on.
Henry Foster
There's one year to go and basically nothing was announced, definitely no new GTA, TES VI is confirmed next-gen, TLOU2 is coming, no God of War, GoW 5 is coming, and Halo is already on gen 9. There are no big releases left in gen 8 apart from TLOU2 and GoW 5.
Joseph Baker
AssCreed has the same structure as COD in that for a while they had multiple teams cranking out that shit, and often like with the Ezio trilogy or everything in the AC3 era from 3, Liberation, Black Flag, Rogue, there wasn't really much meaningful mechanical changes so they could just do rapid turnaround.
You see the same thing in Episodes from Liberty City and that Uncharted Lost Legacy title. The endangered species called the expansion pack, building off existing resources for faster output.