Sony has closed Dark Outlaw Games, its second studio shutdown this year. Founded by Treyarch’s Jason Blundell, the studio never released a title, impacting around 50 employees amid broader in…
The numbers don’t show that. Indies are finding success, yes. But very few of them are putting up the same numbers as AAA slop. Silksong is the only one of note recently that has huge numbers, and it still hasn’t surpassed the latest iterations of Battlefield or Call of Duty. The current best selling game of this year is Resident Evil: Requiem.
And with the massive hype train for Silksong, I feel like the big boys are gonna take the wrong lesson and just spend more money on marketing than ever before to get those massive pre-order numbers while the actual products get worse.
The numbers don’t show that. Indies are finding success, yes. But very few of them are putting up the same numbers as AAA slop. Silksong is the only one of note recently that has huge numbers, and it still hasn’t surpassed the latest iterations of Battlefield or Call of Duty. The current best selling game of this year is Resident Evil: Requiem.
And with the massive hype train for Silksong, I feel like the big boys are gonna take the wrong lesson and just spend more money on marketing than ever before to get those massive pre-order numbers while the actual products get worse.