Comment on The Video-Game Industry Has a Problem: There Are Too Many Games

• crmsnbleyd@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  You’re both wrong though, just because there are 93% more games than 2020 doesn’t mean they’re following the same end goal as other games, it’s like comparing fanfics on wattpad to published books.

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  • ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    The end goal for all of them, unlike fanfics is to sell enough copies to make their development costs back and be able to make another game. Even if you discount the stuff that no one has heard of, the point of the article is that there’s so much competition that even making a game that does well critically isn’t enough to save it; and it used to.

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