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Nice, if short, article on the doomed industry of AAA games https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/26/arts/video-games-graphics-budgets.html
I frankly think AAA makes no sense anymore. Maybe I just have less time, but I am in fact annoyed with games that get stuffed to the brim with checkbox requirements. Give me straightforward combat/movements, "good enough" graphics, stop interrupting gameplay with story and too much lore. Make something worth playing. Everything else is bloat.
@zeh man, this quote contains fractal levels of awfulness:
"“I used to be a high-fidelity guy; I would log into games and if it didn’t look hyperrealistic, then it was not so interesting,” said David Reitman, a managing director at PricewaterhouseCoopers, where he leads the consulting firm’s games division. <
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Reitman sees a future where most of the heavy costs associated with cutting-edge graphics are handled by artificial intelligence."
@tedmielczarek Yeah, it started so well and degenerated quick.
The rest of the take (about "AI chips") is just as awful and make zero sense. Instead of "people don't care about realistic graphics" he's just concluding "realistic graphics are expensive, let's replace the people who make them".
It shows that even moron gamers can become boneheaded consultants, just spilling out the dumb takes that his clients already want to hear I suppose.
@zeh ugh, consultancies like PwC are probably full of the kind of people leaving dumb comments on YouTube videos.