Pro@programming.dev to Gaming@beehaw.orgEnglish · edit-224 hours agoFounder of Arkane Studios: "I think Gamepass is an unsustainable model that has been increasingly damaging the industry for a decade"; impacts salesi.imgur.comimagemessage-square15fedilinkarrow-up1114arrow-down10file-textcross-posted to: games@lemmy.world
arrow-up1114arrow-down1imageFounder of Arkane Studios: "I think Gamepass is an unsustainable model that has been increasingly damaging the industry for a decade"; impacts salesi.imgur.comPro@programming.dev to Gaming@beehaw.orgEnglish · edit-224 hours agomessage-square15fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: games@lemmy.world
minus-squarephuntis@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down1·14 hours agobootlickers and corpos always roll out this argument while ignoring the growth in players meaning you get more sales
minus-squareJohnEdwa@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·14 hours agoYep, that’s why the best selling games consoles with the largest user base for selling all those super expensive AAA games are all the modern ones, like the Playstation 2, Nintendo DS, the Switch and the Gameboy Colour.
minus-squareMaestro@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up3·11 hours agoMost games today are cross platform and sell substantially more copies that old console games. Mega Man 3 for example sold just over 1 million copies and was a great success. GTA V, crossplatform AAA, sold almost a quarter of a billion copies.
bootlickers and corpos always roll out this argument while ignoring the growth in players meaning you get more sales
Yep, that’s why the best selling games consoles with the largest user base for selling all those super expensive AAA games are all the modern ones, like the Playstation 2, Nintendo DS, the Switch and the Gameboy Colour.
Most games today are cross platform and sell substantially more copies that old console games. Mega Man 3 for example sold just over 1 million copies and was a great success. GTA V, crossplatform AAA, sold almost a quarter of a billion copies.