2024 will bring more layoffs and closures than 2023
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Nintendo President Yamauchi said this would happen 23 years ago:
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Former Head of Sony Interactive Entertainment’s Worldwide Studios, Shawn Layden has been sounding the alarm since he left Sony, 4 years ago and again recently:
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Recently, Former Sega President and Former Xbox Head Peter Moore, wonders what next gen will look like for Microsoft and Xbox:
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All 3 of these men at some point were the head of a console maker and very good at their jobs. For them to be coming to the same conclusion albeit at different times show something is wrong with the industry.
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Yamauchi interview from 2001 - Speaks about industry looming pitfalls (relevant to today's market) also speaks to Nintendo's intent for exclusives
Stolen from Celine at Installbase *** Business interview to Hiroshi Yamauchi by the japanese financial magazine Zaikai around early 2001: Q: Mr. Yamauchi, you've always espoused that games depend on how fun they are, and not on how advanced the graphics or hardware is. With that in mind, how...
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Former Head of Sony Interactive Entertainment’s Worldwide Studios, Shawn Layden has been sounding the alarm since he left Sony, 4 years ago and again recently:
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Recently, Former Sega President and Former Xbox Head Peter Moore, wonders what next gen will look like for Microsoft and Xbox:
Microsoft Will Be Debating Right Now Whether Xbox Consoles Have a Future, Says Peter Moore - IGN
IGN interviews ex-Xbox boss Peter Moore about the future of video game consoles and asks: is this generation the last?
All 3 of these men at some point were the head of a console maker and very good at their jobs. For them to be coming to the same conclusion albeit at different times show something is wrong with the industry.
Honestly I find myself enjoying indie games the most more and more in recent years. I’ve discovered some great games that are really fun to play that don’t have cutting edge graphics and pushing new concepts in gameplay.
So many of these big publishers and developers have gotten away from just trying to make a good game people would want to play… instead they only care about making as much profit as possible… bugs, design decisions, your customers be damned. Now the industry is falling apart in some ways.
So many of these big publishers and developers have gotten away from just trying to make a good game people would want to play… instead they only care about making as much profit as possible… bugs, design decisions, your customers be damned. Now the industry is falling apart in some ways.
Yet in the numbers thread we're constantly talking about basically gaming expanding. More games get sold, and we've just come off a period of big console sales.
The market isn't struggling, the idiot executives chasing trends.
Games like Helldivers and Palworld are great examples. There's a new ARPG called Lost Epoch which is selling great on PC. People are buying games. Lots and lots of games. Heck, GTA 5 is still selling.
It is a lot of the same in the entertainment industry. The two Dune movies were cheaper to make than many of these disastrous superhero movies and look and are way better.
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Start with something that works, and have a clear start to finish vision. You don't need to reinvent the wheel. Find a gameplay loop that is fun, and build a fun game around it.
The market isn't struggling, the idiot executives chasing trends.
Games like Helldivers and Palworld are great examples. There's a new ARPG called Lost Epoch which is selling great on PC. People are buying games. Lots and lots of games. Heck, GTA 5 is still selling.
It is a lot of the same in the entertainment industry. The two Dune movies were cheaper to make than many of these disastrous superhero movies and look and are way better.
Dune: Part 2 Proves That Movie Budgets Have Gotten Out of Control - IGN
If Denis Villeneuve can make sandworms work for less than $200 million in Dune: Part 2, then so can you.
Start with something that works, and have a clear start to finish vision. You don't need to reinvent the wheel. Find a gameplay loop that is fun, and build a fun game around it.
Well, it kinda helps that both parts were really just the first book. There was just so much source material from said book that they didn’t even touch all of it. In this case it was where to keep the focus and trim what he felt wasn’t necessary to move forward, and also edit and or change key story/arch beatsYet in the numbers thread we're constantly talking about basically gaming expanding. More games get sold, and we've just come off a period of big console sales.
The market isn't struggling, the idiot executives chasing trends.
Games like Helldivers and Palworld are great examples. There's a new ARPG called Lost Epoch which is selling great on PC. People are buying games. Lots and lots of games. Heck, GTA 5 is still selling.
It is a lot of the same in the entertainment industry. The two Dune movies were cheaper to make than many of these disastrous superhero movies and look and are way better.
Dune: Part 2 Proves That Movie Budgets Have Gotten Out of Control - IGN
If Denis Villeneuve can make sandworms work for less than $200 million in Dune: Part 2, then so can you.
Start with something that works, and have a clear start to finish vision. You don't need to reinvent the wheel. Find a gameplay loop that is fun, and build a fun game around it.
Apex Legends Developer Respawn Hit With Layoffs - Insider Gaming
Respawn Entertainment, the developers behind Apex Legends, Titanfall, and the Star Wars Jedi series, has been hit with layoffs.
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What I don't get is that the rapid cash grab never works anyway. Even assuming that they don't care about people, it doesn't make sense to push these high risk type strategies.
Another one bites the dust ..
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The gaming market is sagnated. The decades of massive growth had halted. Just like automotive that relied on Chinese market growth for past 2 decades. Good times are over.
Games getting longer and shift to line service games making things worse. Amount of game/time is getting less.
Also we are in the Industrial Revolution 4.0 , and things for everyone will be getting worse. 4.o marked the first industrialization when the jobs lost cannot be offset by new jobs gain.
We need to rethink the economy system we had used to, or we will be in big trouble. An economy system that support a significant % of population are not working, and that % will grow over time.
Games getting longer and shift to line service games making things worse. Amount of game/time is getting less.
Also we are in the Industrial Revolution 4.0 , and things for everyone will be getting worse. 4.o marked the first industrialization when the jobs lost cannot be offset by new jobs gain.
We need to rethink the economy system we had used to, or we will be in big trouble. An economy system that support a significant % of population are not working, and that % will grow over time.
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