Pro to [email protected]English • edit-214 days agoFounder of Arkane Studios: "I think Gamepass is an unsustainable model that has been increasingly damaging the industry for a decade"; impacts salesi.imgur.comimagemessage-square23fedilinkarrow-up1129cross-posted to: [email protected][email protected]
arrow-up1129imageFounder of Arkane Studios: "I think Gamepass is an unsustainable model that has been increasingly damaging the industry for a decade"; impacts salesi.imgur.comPro to [email protected]English • edit-214 days agomessage-square23fedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected][email protected]
minus-squarephuntislinkfedilinkEnglish10•14 days agobootlickers and corpos always roll out this argument while ignoring the growth in players meaning you get more sales
minus-squareJohnEdwalinkfedilink2•14 days agoYep, that’s why the best selling games consoles with the largest user base for selling all those super expensive AAA games are all the modern ones, like the Playstation 2, Nintendo DS, the Switch and the Gameboy Colour.
minus-squareMaestrolinkfedilink6•14 days agoMost games today are cross platform and sell substantially more copies that old console games. Mega Man 3 for example sold just over 1 million copies and was a great success. GTA V, crossplatform AAA, sold almost a quarter of a billion copies.
bootlickers and corpos always roll out this argument while ignoring the growth in players meaning you get more sales
Yep, that’s why the best selling games consoles with the largest user base for selling all those super expensive AAA games are all the modern ones, like the Playstation 2, Nintendo DS, the Switch and the Gameboy Colour.
Most games today are cross platform and sell substantially more copies that old console games. Mega Man 3 for example sold just over 1 million copies and was a great success. GTA V, crossplatform AAA, sold almost a quarter of a billion copies.