It’s honestly kinda crazy how long some games spend in development. The Final Fantasy 7 Remake trilogy is a perfect example of something that should’ve been quick but ended up being so bloated and took forever to make.
FF7Remake was announced in 2015, got stuck in development hell for a bit, released 2020. The sequel released 2024. The third one still hasn’t been teased yet. How many people are attached to a franchise if it takes 10 years to get the full story? I loved the first remake but dropped the second one, I just didn’t care about the story as much as I did ~5 years ago.
Did you read the article? The point here is that nowadays games in general, especially AAA games, takes very long to develop. In my opinion one reason for that is that games have became way too big, usually at the expense of gameplay. Of course there is some series like NBA 2K and CoD that keeps releasing a “new” game every year. However we all know that for many years they have repeated themselves a lot. New releases should be just patches that updates the roster or something like that.