I predict that Witcher 4 will be at least a modest success coasting on the success of the previous game despite this bullshit. Just as TLoU 2 was a modest success.
Good luck selling gamers on Witcher 5 or TLoU 3 though. That DEI money must be pretty good to be worth killing huge franchises over.
That's exactly how it works. 'Get Woke, Go Broke' doesn't kick in instantly. By now everyone knows you get one freebie when trashing a franchise and it's the sales for the entry after the big DEI-fest which really matter. Companies who are fully paid up to the message pretend not to know this, however.
It's because normies don't pay any attention to gaming news; they buy based mostly on how much they liked the previous entry in the franchise. Witcher 3 was good, so Witcher 4 will get the normie dollar. Witcher 4 is almost certainly going to be terrible, so Witcher 5 won't get the normie dollar even if its done a hard course correction.
I predict that Witcher 4 will be at least a modest success coasting on the success of the previous game despite this bullshit. Just as TLoU 2 was a modest success.
Good luck selling gamers on Witcher 5 or TLoU 3 though. That DEI money must be pretty good to be worth killing huge franchises over.
That's exactly how it works. 'Get Woke, Go Broke' doesn't kick in instantly. By now everyone knows you get one freebie when trashing a franchise and it's the sales for the entry after the big DEI-fest which really matter. Companies who are fully paid up to the message pretend not to know this, however.
It's because normies don't pay any attention to gaming news; they buy based mostly on how much they liked the previous entry in the franchise. Witcher 3 was good, so Witcher 4 will get the normie dollar. Witcher 4 is almost certainly going to be terrible, so Witcher 5 won't get the normie dollar even if its done a hard course correction.