Cliff Bleszinski: “AAA is a nearly unsustainable model”

[Fatboi1]

Sony Stans

Point Proven

 

[Rekkapryde]

Really, and I hate to say it, games should cost $80. They've remained $60 for so long, despite inflation. Of course they are losing money. Only a few major companies can pull off 100+ mill games.

And I gotta say this, @Prodigal Syndicate has been saying this for years. He saw this a mile away; way before anybody else

If they do 80 and include all the DLC/Season passes, I wouldn't have a major issue with that.

Those SNES cartridge prices smmfh

 

[Rekkapryde]

Go buy Titanfall 2

I bought TF2 digitally.

 

[Rekkapryde]

Assassins creed game reportedly cost 100 million


Of course game makers are secretive but for a big triple a game with cinematic story line and considerable multiplayer 100 million seems like the going rate unless you are in a place with cheaper cost of living like Poland (Witcher 3 cost in the 50 million range) or horizon which was also in the 50 million range

Guerilla is located in the Netherlands. Must be the weed there.

 

[Ice Cold]

Guerilla is located in the Netherlands. Must be the weed there.

I was trying to think of where they were, I was thinking Germany but knew that was wrong.
Scandinavian companies on the come up though.

 

[daze23]

neither Poland or Holland is in Scandinavia

 

[Ice Cold]

neither Poland or Holland is in Scandinavia

But I don't get paid to know geography, matter of fact I don't get paid at all!

 

[Ironman]

I just want Prototype 3A Darksiders 3

 

[Liquid]

Really, and I hate to say it, games should cost $80. They've remained $60 for so long, despite inflation. Of course they are losing money. Only a few major companies can pull off 100+ mill games.

And I gotta say this, @Prodigal Syndicate has been saying this for years. He saw this a mile away; way before anybody else

Retail games should cost an extra premium for sure to make up the gap.

That will push people into buying Digital...which they should be doing anyway.

 

[Wild self]

and yet here we are 5 years later where AAA games and it's devs are still doing fine

The AAA model cant be sustained for much longer. All this 4k graphics this, high end that, is killing developers. These games have higher budgets than most movies now.

 

[Fatboi1]

 

[Ice Cold]

So maybe it's not all doom and gloom
NPD has been underestimating digital game sales since at least 2010

The new, “restated” reporting from NPD shows that spending on game software has actually been increasing steadily since 2010, whereas the previously reported data indicated somewhat of a spending plateau.

But like i said before the rich at the top are still making a ton of money and the indies at the bottom are but there's not much in between

 

[Maximus Rex]

The AAA model cant be sustained for much longer. All this 4k graphics this, high end that, is killing developers. These games have higher budgets than most movies now.

yea publishers don't do any analysis on what a AAA game is gonna sell that just throw money at devs willy nilly for more graphics

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3 years ago huh

yep CoD (AAA) is gonna fail any minute now

 

[Rekkapryde]

I just want Prototype 3

@Bryan Danielson

 

[Rekkapryde]

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