Is videogame development in the United States becoming unfeasible? An american studio like Insomniac spends $300 million on a mid and short game like Spider-Man 2, meanwhile for that money you can make a game like Witcher 3 or Baldur's Gate 3 in any random european country and you'd still have a ton of money left
>>733779068>An american studio like Insomniac*Cuckifornian studio
>>733779068just have the studio based in the USA where the upper management is but the actual worker monkeys who built the entire game located in india or malaysia or some shit. Works for Microsoft
>>733779265>Works for Microsoft>Works
just move out of california. there's 49 other states.
>>733779068>becomingIt's been unfeasible for over 20 years.
>>733779367Yeah it works to ship a product for the lowest cost and highest potential profit. it's simply following the capitalism blueprint of trying to min max returns. that people don't want to buy it is a different issue.
>>73377951340 of which are irrelevant.
>>733779265Hey slowpoke are you posting from 2012 or something because this has been the case since then.
>>733779068>Is videogame development in the United States becoming unfeasible?Yes. Not just vidya, nu Hollyslop is a bloated low effort low quality garbage shat out by outsourced OEM bangladeshi asset makers and incompetent nepobabies too.And it's just going to get worse because dollar's purchasing power is going down every week.
>>733779265Microsoft's gaming division just got liquidated lmao
>>733779705self-fulfilling prophecy. go anywhere but the 3 or so states everyone already headquarters businesses in and make it work.then when calitards say "ohhhh but i don't wanna make games in iowa i like the hustle and bustle of the city and $15 coffee" you hire them remote.
With the budget of Concordyou could fund E33, TW3, DMC5, MGS5, KCD2, and Dishonoredand still have $150 million remaining
>>733779068Americans are too expensive
>>733780214but all those games do not have the potential to milk people for decades through live service MTX. we need the next Fortnite not another one time purchase singleplayer game.
>>733779513*moves to israel*
No. Artists have always been cheap.Don't work for publishers etc parasites.
>>733780407Most those games generated income are going to generate income for next 10 years enough to fund next game that bigger and still have a passive income
>>733780407>but all those games do not have the potential to milk people for decades through live service MTXMGSV sort of did but no one went for it.
>>733779969>you hire themno
>>733780602good thinking
>>733780507Taking one of the more recent releases from that list I'm pretty sure Expedition 33 made a decent amount of money around release. but I'm willing to bet at this very moment it's not even making 0.01% of the money that Fortnite or Genshin are generating right now despite being old as fuck games.
>>733779068>Is videogame development in the United States becoming unfeasible?Why did AAA publishers fuck over remote work when it was the solution?
>>733781967>remote workNot a thing
>>733779068>Is videogame development in the United States becoming unfeasible?Your mistake is thinking this phenomena is unique to the video game industry. Getting a job in America in 2026 is a major bitch. Every exec hates hiring Americans and wishes to hire nothing but pajeets and AI for every job.
>>733779068Thank MAGAtards
>>733779969They’d rather just go to Mumbai
>>733779068It's unironically illegal not to hire women and trannies here so yes
Thank Biden
>>733779705So fucking what?
>>733779068Half of the people hired on an American studio have nothing to do with video games. Shit is more bloated than a DMV office.
>>733779068Spider-Man 2 was intentionally designed to waste as much of Sony's money as possible. The rights lie with Disney, and they asked for a cut of any material showcasing their IP. Consulting firms were hired even though they could just write a script like they already did. New York was modeled yet again when it was already completed in the first one.
>>733779705>if studio isn't located in downtown $5M office it's WORTHLESSthat's why game cost so much, especially in the age of remote workpure dumbness
