More information on Sony and the insanity of AAA game development has surfaced thanks to new presentation slides originating from the Insomniac Games hacking and subsequent leak from 2022, showing that $100 million USD budgets are now ‘mid-budget’ for Sony.
The presentation slides compare the budget and development time needed for AAA games like Spider-Man versus making ‘mid-budget’ games back to back – a reasonable comparison and one that harkens back to earlier generations of gaming – if it weren’t for the scale of the budget for the mid-scale games, reaching $100 million.
It goes to show just how much development budgets for games have been inflated over the past few years, with the game prices also inflating to match.
Another “game” that’s basically cutscenes with QTE to give the illusion you are playing it.
Well, as long as it has good graphics, AKA the jingling keys, the normies will eat it all up.
Then they’ll say it’s the best game ever since the last best game ever.
It’s more lucrative to sell people the illusion of playing games than making games and have most people be incapable of finishing them.
Got a find a way to make it a trend for destroying the woke gaming companies and devs out there. So that way, the normies are on board and being usefully against these companies.
For far too long, gaming has suck. Time to take it back.
Do you want to cut costs more? Fire all diversity weirdos, burn the HR department, and stop giving money to useless third parties like “Sweet Baby”.
SHUT UP YOU ANTISEMITE!!!
MUH DIVERSITY, EQUITY, AND INCLUSION!!!!!
Not face scanning celebrities would also be a massive chunk of the budget reclaimed too. Paying these subhumans millions for their visage in a game is beyond retarded.
The ethics department at square enix will not escape the purge either.
f♥♥k Square, they need to burn for all the years of not just wokeness but greedy decisions. They are not company that deserves to be around anymore.
“You get what you fucking deserve.”
Even high budget gives low grade from Sony so nothing changes here.
And yet the quality of the games has gone down significantly.
Good. The faster Soyny bury themselves with bloated budgets – the better.