Why do western game studios keep getting canned?
>>741396747Market forces. They have priced themselves out of the market by not being cost efficient, and time efficient. The market is adjusting, and reducing the amount of Western game studios is a correction. The AAA model is dying, and little kids aren't even playing them. Why did they think these companies can last forever? They're operating on a model established like 20 years ago that thought it would grow indefinitely. The same shit happened with manufacturing and everything else. Why would gaming be any different?
>>741396747Fortnite ruined video games
>>741396942>>741397114is it really timmies playing roblox, fornite and minecraft autistically or is it something else?this isn't happening to japanese companies
>>741396942Japan doesn't seem to have this problem, or if they do, they're much better at hiding it.
>>741396747She's doing the needful.
>>741397228Japan makes video games, not propaganda.
>skill issue
>>741397208>>741397228Japs companies aren't stupidly bloated with useless middle management nor waste money on retarded DEIppuccino spresso-HRT machines.
Know how crunch wasn't a thing until Western developers started complaining about it and bringing it up? That's why. Crunch is intrisic to deadline based jobs. It's part of the job when. It's like complaining that your work project is due so you have to crunch to finish it. It's retarded to complain about it. Western developers are made of bloated hundred people teams who don't want to make games who hate gamers. And they get paid for sitting around doing nothing.
>>741397228>Japan doesn't seem to have this problem, or if they do, they're much better at hiding it.Many, many, many, many, MANY, Japanese studios have already closed or downsized or merged in the last 15 years. You are only looking at the survivors. You have studios like L5 that are kind of just hanging by a thread and they're not alone.Nintendo, Capcom, and Fromsoft, and a few others are doing gangbusters, while many are in danger. The situation isn't that different from USA-Europe, where a few companies like Rockstar North are making billions while these ones are being shut down. >>741397208>is it really timmies playing roblox, fornite and minecraft autistically or is it something else?Yes, it's over half of this. Remember the "gamers are dead" shit from like 2014? The argument was that the current whiny white male nerd gamers will only shrink in size, and children will replace them so why pander to the needs of "gamers"? The model they are working on was that consoles and AAA games would continually grow with old gamers retiring and more children replacing them.These new devs would make more diverse games, and appeal to women and minorities. But the kids didn't show up and instead are playing Roblox and games like it. Thus each year AAA market shrinks, but costs go up. Thus there's no place for these studios, and there's too many of them and too many games are being produced. This is a market correction. MARKET FORCES ARE NOT MAGIC YOU NEED TO RESPECT THEM. COMPANIES DO NOT RUN ON PIXIE DUST YOU NEED SALES.
western entertainment development became bloated with pointless positions they had to make up to fulfill diversity hire quotas, and the diversity hires that are in the actual important roles are incompetent.
>>741397478>And they get paid for sitting around doing nothing.Not anymore. The westoid game dev job market is the worst it's ever been.
>>741396747Because the studios fucking suck
>>741397823damn capitalism is such cancer
>>741396747Phil's plan failed.
>>741396747Maybe they're not profitable?Maybe they can only make shitty games?It's a mystery
>>741397208>>741397228>please please please turn this into a woke is finally dead circlejerk!Even if the studios werent woke they would still be getting shuttered because their business model is unsustainable.
>>741398023You mean capitalism is the cure for cancer. These studios deserved to die because of their woke faggotry and communism constantly ruining every game they make
>>741398294according to you these being the most played games on pc is a good thing?
>>741398348That sucks, but capitalism doesn't factor in for people having shitty taste.
>>741398243>wokeNo one was even thinking that. Do you associate Japan with not being woke or something?
>>741398436well i guess all we can do is hope for the best
The reason why is simple. Microsoft never truly recovered from the XBONE>Xbone flopped >Phil Spencer gets appointed >Phil wanted to make Xbox like Netflix with Gamepass >the problem is he needed a large catalogue of games for that to work >so Phil acquired a bunch of studios which cost billions of dollars>during COVID gaming was very hot but after COVID growth stagnated and Microsoft started shifting to AI>so now that gaming isn’t doing COVID numbers Phil needs greater returns to justify all the expensive acquisitions >Phil gets axed >new Xbox CEO thinks studios are too expensive to maintain The mistake was that they put expensive AAA and first party titles day 1 on Gamepass. Why would anyone pay full price when you can just do Gamepass? The film industry had a similar problem, what they needed to do was make their most expensive titles unavailable on Gamepass until they’ve already reached their peak sales
>>7413967471.Graphics card makers aren't paying them anymore2.Blackrock bucks and USAID are drying up3.Games are HUGE undertakings and have no audience for them4.The economy has crashed. We're in the midddle of what looks to be the great depression + foundational american replacement. There is no money or audience for western media in america or the west anymore.
the industry got bloated because many interests were pouring money in order to make propaganda and now it's going back to normalstudios don't need thousands of fucking employees to make videogames
Go Woke, Go Broke.Trash goes in the trashcan.
>>741397823Nintendo really needs to put out a proper console work on their online and make a walled garden for japanese and family friendly games.
>>741401275walled garden?
