I mean it's funny ngl although it sucks that all we got nowadays is business men or women as Nintendo CEOs like shouldn't a gamer be in charge ?
Business in video game industry has 4 aspects regarding this topic:
1- In any industry people only cares about making money. It's their job. In that context for decades video game industry doesn't revolve around gamers, there are only people who find their way in these companies just to make a living. Naturally they understand "gamer profile" in the eyes of an ordinary man that "gamers are primitive and horny" and this is why they spam cinematic shit simple pew pew action game with sexual characters and calls it a game. They cannot comprehend the gamer profile who actually plays games for fun and to relieve a meaningful fantasy they cannot experience in real life. But I don't mean getting an NPC GF who loves you just because you picked the right dialogue options and did a side quest for her lol, I mean actually having a meaningful fun adventure in a cyberpunk universe, but what we get is "my daddy is gone so I'll look for it" like half of the society having daddy issues already lol.
2- You can't profit by doing what you want so you gotta play according to the current state of the world, your rivals, your customers and your target audience. Most of the people who buys a game anymore are the type of people that have very diverse interests other than playing a game for fun. They wanna see good graphics, they wanna cinematic games, they want sexy people, they are a virgin so they wanna cope with lack of their sex life with dating sim elements in pseudo-RPGs, et cetera. However Nintendo "kinda" does what they want despite this and they don't give up on their ancient roots that their games are always same shit with different skin and their games keeps lacking quality each generation because they realized people support Nintendo because of a logic no different than why they always support whatever is a popular sports team lol. They already established an identity and got popular, they realized no matter what they shit people will enjoy it because they have a mindless who will always floats them up.
So, Nintendo doesn't do what is unnecessary. They know their cult well and play their card right. That's business yo. No company has to care about actually releasing a meaningful fun game that sells right. Therefore they know developing a decent game is costy they just spend what is realistic to spend and expect to make profit that is like above 2 millions. That's why video game industry spams mindless pew pew action games with cinematic stories and gameplays that either way it has sexual BS and call it a day because this is what society wants, and that's why a company using insanity of people against them to make a profit.
Long story short there were times developers wanted to develop a game they wanted but mostly they failed because they didn't have the right people and/or the budget. Budget of developing a video game can really increase way more than you planned and when it happens naturally you just can't find a gold mine to support you. And then you can't always find the right people for the job. But once in a blue when all planets draws a straight line there will come a time that a developer team will show up and actually realease really good games but this is once in a blue time anymore because video game industry shifted from "let's allow teams do their thing because they are gamer" to "dude people don't even wanna play a game anymore so just bash cinematic and a sexy anime girl or some shit" lol.
3- When tons of people are on board of the Titanic they all drag the ship into the nearest ice berg. Meaning: The head of the team says X, company's managers says Y, CEO says Z, shareholders says L, things goes so complex they write and draw mathematical formulas to develop a concept of the game that would sell by following good old data on what kind of stuff people like and everyone chip in like a headless chicken on how a game should be, shareholders are like "make the game FPS and have sexy girls like that game called Overwatch or something" and then other shareholder says "fuck if I know what video games are but my grandson plays Valorant", and some granma says "these games are too violent make it more like a movie" and some guy says "kids love Minecraft graphics" and the game they plan to develop is Witcher 4 lolol. This can change the game over and over again while every aspect of the company drags the project down and they change shit so hard they lose the plot anymore. And then they come up with "good idea bad execution" games that couldn't become a proper game but they think "we can't cancel this game because we already wasted so much money on it so let's release it in buggy state" and they sell it with pre-order and swim-suit DLCs and suckers buys that shit lol.
4- Watcher personality killed the video game industry. Long story short when watching entertaintment like movies and tv series was seperate from "doing entertaintment" like playing games they tested the water with releasing cinematic games. It turned out gameless games you mostly watch sell so well non-gamers plays such games and wow actually those who wanna play cinematic games way more than "real game gamers". This is the moment with PS3-era killed the video game industry in stages and industry replaced with people who knows a thing about movie industry and they bought their shit to kill gaming industry. They all turned it into "time waster games" industry. As a result characters talks to talk, they won't shut up, after 10 minutes of gaming they talk for half an hour again and between every scene you just pew pew shoot mindlessly they call it "AAA game" lol. And as a result I never liked to watch movies and tv series and now I don't like to play new games anymore because they have nothing to play. Mostly we already had actual gamers developing a game and now it is so rare that a game actually designed for gamers who actually want to play a game. The BS of trying to satisfy most people, trying to attract non-gamers and especially targeting insane people on Twitter killed gaming for good in 2016. Now gender identity options in video games are way more important than actually game having a gameplay SMH.
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lolol. Fiction can be fun but when it really happened it is worth to learn about such stuff yo. It adds something to my life like witnessing some random interesting even in a video game you play!!!
