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PlayStation exec predicts focus will ‘shift from graphics to immersive narratives’ (www.videogameschronicle.com)
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Isn't Minecraft one of the biggest games on the planet? RimWorld simply awesome. Stardew selling millions...

Chasing top graphics hasn't always been the route to success.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Of course, but you try justifying an increased budget for writing or a bunch of smaller titles to a publisher whose only qualification is that they have a lot of money.

Or you can go the Todd Howard route and promise endless proc-generated gameplay, so that they barely even have to pay writers, the game will write itself!

Or you can just show them a pretty picture, describe an action sequence that a 13 year old boy would love.

Or even better, you can point to another successful release and just go "Yeah, we're gonna do that again. It's 99% done already so we can do it really cheaply"