The Business world is a hard place and if you make something people dont want to buy then you are out of luck and either quit yourself or is forced to close.
AAA title development is treated very much like Hollywood does with respect to their own movie production. New studios are started so they can play the shell game of who pays who and no one really makes a profit since you can make ANYTHING look like a loss on paper if you shuffle the funny money around enough. Then, when the house of cards falls down - dissolve and start over.
It would be more interesting to actually see how many *different* groups of developers there are in game development these days - that's a better metric.
The Business world is a hard place and if you make something people dont want to buy then you are out of luck and either quit yourself or is forced to close.
The Business world is a hard place and if you make something people dont want to buy then you are out of luck and either quit yourself or is forced to close.
When studios close = less games being made.
And? developers don't make games for fun, they make it to earn money, so if noone buys them, there is clearly not a need for those games.
Unfortunately a lot. I won't try to list all of them, but some of the more disappointing are probably Irrational games, Balckrock Studios, 3D Realms, EA Chicago, Japan etc., and Rockstar Vancouver. People are already calling Konami, though i'm not so quick to write it off, but we'll have to see what happens
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