Yes. Not every game needs to be open world tower-climbing slop with a crafting mechanic bolted on. They should make a wide breadth of smaller-budget games in different genres to appeal to a wider audience rather than investing every cent into Call of Madden.
Xbox literally just tried this with game pass, hundreds of indies and low/ medium budgets of every genre, almost entirely made for redditors, women, and troons, they didn’t sell and now Xbox is firing 3200 people to outsource to India.
Call of madden sells because that has always been the dominant market. Even then call of madden has been beat with the DEI stick to reach “every potential customer” and is now losing sales.
As it turns out diversifying in either sense doesn’t work because making the main demographic 60% of the attention to pander to other demographics causes the main demographic to find other games. Just like millions of smaller budget games don’t work simply because no one plays them unless you’re reaching the only demographic (straight men) who have the numbers to make your game successful.
In no universe is diversifying to reach a broader audience successful long term. Gaming and Hollywood have quite definitively proven this.
almost entirely made for redditors, women, and troons
That was the stupid part. There are plenty of core male gamers who want to play something besides gun and ball. I'm not really saying they shouldn't make the yearly AAA crap. But it's diminishing returns. When you're spending millions to get 5% higher res textures, you might as well be lighting it on fire. The people who lap it up will regardless and you actually can pick up other niches with that money.
they didn’t sell and now Xbox is firing 3200 people to outsource to India.
Doesn't matter if they sold or not. Microsoft is jeeted at the highest levels. They will keep replacing everyone with jeets regardless of performance.
Gaming and Hollywood have quite definitively proven this.
I'm not sure what world you're living in. Or we're using different definitions of "diversifying." Hollywood killed the comedy, they killed the mid-budget action movie, they killed romantic comedies. All they do now is giant-budget capeshit and trying to squeeze the last few dollars out of their IP catalog with sequels or remakes no one asked for. The list of things that have any hope of being greenlit is narrower now than it ever has been and Hollywood is on the ropes.
Yes. Not every game needs to be open world tower-climbing slop with a crafting mechanic bolted on. They should make a wide breadth of smaller-budget games in different genres to appeal to a wider audience rather than investing every cent into Call of Madden.
Xbox literally just tried this with game pass, hundreds of indies and low/ medium budgets of every genre, almost entirely made for redditors, women, and troons, they didn’t sell and now Xbox is firing 3200 people to outsource to India.
Call of madden sells because that has always been the dominant market. Even then call of madden has been beat with the DEI stick to reach “every potential customer” and is now losing sales.
As it turns out diversifying in either sense doesn’t work because making the main demographic 60% of the attention to pander to other demographics causes the main demographic to find other games. Just like millions of smaller budget games don’t work simply because no one plays them unless you’re reaching the only demographic (straight men) who have the numbers to make your game successful.
In no universe is diversifying to reach a broader audience successful long term. Gaming and Hollywood have quite definitively proven this.
That was the stupid part. There are plenty of core male gamers who want to play something besides gun and ball. I'm not really saying they shouldn't make the yearly AAA crap. But it's diminishing returns. When you're spending millions to get 5% higher res textures, you might as well be lighting it on fire. The people who lap it up will regardless and you actually can pick up other niches with that money.
Doesn't matter if they sold or not. Microsoft is jeeted at the highest levels. They will keep replacing everyone with jeets regardless of performance.
I'm not sure what world you're living in. Or we're using different definitions of "diversifying." Hollywood killed the comedy, they killed the mid-budget action movie, they killed romantic comedies. All they do now is giant-budget capeshit and trying to squeeze the last few dollars out of their IP catalog with sequels or remakes no one asked for. The list of things that have any hope of being greenlit is narrower now than it ever has been and Hollywood is on the ropes.