r/gaming • u/CiabattaKatsuie Console • Oct 01 '24

The games industry is undergoing a 'generational change,' says Epic CEO Tim Sweeney: 'A lot of games are released with high budgets, and they're not selling'

https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/the-games-industry-is-undergoing-a-generational-change-says-epic-ceo-tim-sweeney-a-lot-of-games-are-released-with-high-budgets-and-theyre-not-selling/

Tim Sweeney apparently thinks big budget games fail because... They aren't social enough? I personally feel that this is BS, but what do you guys think? Is there a trend to support his comments?

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u/milkywayer Oct 02 '24

And fired the guy who tried to push that non sense.

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u/No1_4Now Oct 02 '24

I'm guessing they fired the fall guy, not the entire C-suite and board of directors who are the real people behind these terrible decisions.

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u/HappyHarry-HardOn Oct 02 '24 edited Oct 02 '24

They kinda did - Phil Spencer took over soon after.

(& look how great that worked out for them - Xbox are on top of the world!)

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u/chipmunk_supervisor Oct 02 '24

Yep it was a clever trick to let Don Mattrick take the heat but the Xbox One debacle was a team effort and most of that team stayed. In hindsight even the last years of the Xbox 360's life wasn't so great either with the excessive Kinnect push and random unwanted/unimaginative sequels (Crackdown 2, Fable 3, Halo 4). Whats-his-name Peter Moore was such a driving force behind the Xbox 360's initial success and when he left the Xbox execs coasted on his momentum until it came to a stop.

Now they're addicted to the Game Pass bar chart and keep shooting themselves in the foot to make numbers go up at the expense of everything else.

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u/Appdel Oct 02 '24

If you ask me halo 4 was a little too imaginative with the source material

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u/Cerberusx32 Oct 03 '24

You also gotta remember there are BS politics and power dynamics happening in the company. And someone(s) with enough clout might want something that is stupid but guess what? Who cares, what they say goes. Look at the nonsense with Bungie and all the people they fired. A few of them mentioned they had to scrap entire content they were working on for months because someone didn't 'like' it or something dumb.