This phenomenon with color in cinema and games is also to appease the underabled: the partially blind and the various types of colorblind. Certain people see certain groups of colors are one shade and actually get more detail from a digitally desaturated image.
Why not just make multiple versions? Or a color mode in the settings?
Laziness / money.
Why make the media so dead and ugly for the sake of a tiny minority, how can that be financially feasible?
ESG score. Basically, megacorps give studios grants to make media a certain way. Include a gay protagonist, include a black character, have an overarching anticapitalist message, etc; and get lots of money, so much that sales don't even matter. This is how AAA developers can still be around years after producing nothing but total failures.
Quality post. I didn't know about the accessibility angle before, but I still think a lot of the trend is herd mentality among directors as the boomer auteurs lose influence, ceding ground to more conformist millennials.
and get lots of money, so much that sales don't even matter. This is how AAA developers can still be around years after producing nothing but total failures.
edit: and this too. I wonder how much of that money is still around under the current administration though.
It's not a quality post. Stop and think about that bottom chart for even half a second. Look at the dates on it. When was color photography invented? When were CCD's invented? When were Blue LED's invented?
This phenomenon with color in cinema and games is also to appease the underabled: the partially blind and the various types of colorblind. Certain people see certain groups of colors are one shade and actually get more detail from a digitally desaturated image.
Laziness / money.
ESG score. Basically, megacorps give studios grants to make media a certain way. Include a gay protagonist, include a black character, have an overarching anticapitalist message, etc; and get lots of money, so much that sales don't even matter. This is how AAA developers can still be around years after producing nothing but total failures.
Quality post. I didn't know about the accessibility angle before, but I still think a lot of the trend is herd mentality among directors as the boomer auteurs lose influence, ceding ground to more conformist millennials.
edit: and this too. I wonder how much of that money is still around under the current administration though.
It's not a quality post. Stop and think about that bottom chart for even half a second. Look at the dates on it. When was color photography invented? When were CCD's invented? When were Blue LED's invented?
Lol wow i feel so dumb for not noticing that