![]() ![]() ![]() Jeff Ross, the director of the game, said Sony made the studio “feel like a big disappointment”. Likewise, Sony did not greenlight a sequel to Sony Bend’s Days Gone after not being satisfied with sales. In a Twitter thread, Naka says he knew the game wasn’t ready for release, but the publisher pushed for its release anyways. Creator Yuji Naka says this is Square Enix’s fault. Balan Wonderworld, developed by a Japanese studio was universally panned by critics. Developers are constricted into a system where they lack the ability to create something new.įor Square Enix, the problems don’t derive from the Western studios the real problem is a focus on cash instead of creativity. ![]() The weirder, more diverse games are the ones really being threatened by this trend of consolidation, the Chunky Monkeys of the world. Single-player-focused games, such as Tomb Raider, don't fit this mold and become less valuable from a cost-benefit perspective.Īs more studios are eaten up, the pool of who makes decisions about what games are worth making grows smaller and smaller. Companies want to have a reliable cash cow to milk at a steady interval. “Good performance” is a term geared towards the live service model. Yet according to a timeline from Embracer of the Tomb Raider franchise, the reboot trilogy developed under Crystal Dynamics accounted for 38 out of the 88 million sales since the franchise's inception. The company famously reports almost all of its western games as failures. “Good performance” - Square Enix claims that the underperformance of Marvel’s Avengers and Guardians of the Galaxy lost them $200 million. Square Enix was trying its hand at live service with Marvel’s Avengers, but that didn’t work out. Sony purchased Destiny 2 developer Bungie. Microsoft bought Activision Blizzard and now owns Overwatch, World of Warcraft, and Call of Duty. In this case, the vanilla ice cream is live service games. They believe the best way to do this is by making the vanilla option, or what they view as the most widely appealing product. Due to the vast amounts of money pumped into games, corporations are laser-focused on making the highest return on their investment. Major game publishers, by and large, work the same way. And you’ll never discover that you really love having one scoop coffee with one scoop cookies and cream. But you’ll never be able to have your favorite flavor, Chunky Monkey. It might even be one person’s favorite flavor. Most likely, the group will choose chocolate or vanilla because it's a flavor that’s pretty safe for everyone. Imagine a group of ten people is told they can have free ice cream as long as they all pick the same flavor. ![]()
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