I'm not an expert but I think that they have the same problem as movies. Everyone expected growth, so companies just hired a lot of people to show growth, they had higher budgets, this budgets got to extreme levels.

Starfield budget was 400 millions (not sure about marketing) vs Skyrim a total of 85 millions with marketing.

Fiscal year ends in April and now they need to cut cost because investors are pissed. Everyone involved are woke except investors that would rather see a profit rather then a tax write-off.

Turns out that the growth was not there, a decade later and they still did not find the mythical "modern audience" that will buy every propaganda filled cinematic walking simulator.

Woke people don't care, they have no brand loyalty and they don't care about games. They will go forth to infest a different company.

I'm not an expert but I think that they have the same problem as movies. Everyone expected growth, so companies just hired a lot of people to show growth, they had higher budgets, this budgets got to extreme levels.

Starfield budget was 400 millions (not sure about marketing) vs Skyrim a total of 85 millions with marketing.

Fiscal year ends in April and now they need to cut cost because investors are pissed. Everyone involved are woke except investors that would rather see a profit rather then a tax write-off.

Turns out that the growth was not there, a decade later and they still did not find the mythical "modern audience" that will buy every propaganda filled cinematic walk thru simulator.

Woke people don't care, they have no brand loyalty and they don't care about games. They will go forth to infest a different company.