Making this mostly because I saw this trailer which is the third game this year I'd actually WANT to play and this video from Arch on how because the games being made are all grey goo (sorry, 'quadruple A') they are losing not just to indies but DECADE old evergreen games like GTA V.
Between the constant woke stories and characters, the piss poor game mechanics and the insistence to be 'live service games' I can't tell if it's deliberate sabotage or they were so reliant on ESG that they forgot how to make a game FOR PROFIT.
And a lot of these games COULD be fixed with mods but thanks to the war on non-narrative modders, a lot of them remain a pile of shit. It's why Fallout 4 still has an active playerbase and Starfield is largely forgotten.
I think 2024, we will see at least ONE major studio fall and a ton of cope articles saying 'gaming isn't as popular' while these guys might make the next hit allowing us to drive a Toyota into medieval knights..
I guess you might be young so you don't understand how large games are made in a large, corporate environment. or how debt works, how for instance if a large corporation has the service on their debt raised 2-3% annually they go out of business. and this will happen unless they adopt ESG pushed down from the banks, which is pushed down by the globalist, coin-clipping international middlemen and financiers who hate you hate your people hate your history and hate your culture and want to see all of you die but not before humiliating you and sterilizing the children.