This won't happen because the "huge publishers" have more ability to actually have many different teams that work on different types of products.įor a moment let's say it will happen. These companies will realize that spending the amount they do on console games isn't getting them huge returns and they'll see that mobile games are where the real money is. Most of the actual "huge publishers" already have mobile development teams and have for years.
That will lead other companies to shift over to mobile. Unless you'd rather Sega die entirely rather than make games you don't want to play. It would actually be really cool if Sega found their niche on mobile. The only thing they really hold is nostalgia. Sega also hasn't really been relevant in years. It's actually because they aren't huge that they have to focus on one avenue or the other. Sega and Konami are not "huge publishers" and won't affect the market if they shift priorities. I think it'll be for the worse because Konami and Sega are likely to make a fortune on mobile. For a few years Facebook games boomed, and then sort of crashed. "Huge publishers" already make mobile games. Why spend $60 million on a console game and only sell 15-20 million copies when you can make much more from cheap mobile games? Either that will happen or video games will continue to get so expensive that we'll see the industry crash because it can't support the bloated I meant is that if these huge publishers shift to mobile then that's going to seriously change the video game industry. What I meant is that if these huge publishers shift to mobile then that's going to seriously change the video game industry. It's happened before, but apparently you didn't notice last time (in the 80s).
You'll see it again in your life time, too. This is called evolution, restructuring, kids. It's not at all endangering to the industry, but it is interesting. I suppose you could argue (correctly) that the more companies go away the more other companies make due to the loss of competition. Ya, it's weird being able to count the companies on one hand. Bethesda, maybe to some extent CDPR counts. EA and Activision will still make them (at least for now), and TakeTwo/2K is fine as far as I know.
I wonder what companies we'll see rise up now that most of the big companies are no longer making big budget games. I think more than anything video game development has just gotten too expensive for the return and the reason you see a lot of big companies making this shift is because mobile development can be cheaper, shorter cycles, and have significant return on the investment. I am kind of surprised they are doing this and I've never really heard news about how they're games are doing so from the outside it always seemed like they were doing alright. I don't see how this trend "endangers the video game industry." That sounds alarmist and knee jerk nonsense.
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