Making smaller games isn't a bad thing. Every game being a BG3 would be completely unsustainable. Sure, that game was a great accomplishment, but also imagine if they'd made the game that size and it was bad. It would've probably sunk the studio. I'm all about more A and AA games. Not everything needs to be a 300 person effort.
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I think the number of scammers went way up though
shrug I guess we'll see but I don't think it's at all far fetched to think that more people will be lining up and saving for a switch 2 compared to a new xbox, even a year after the launch. The switch is one of the most successful consoles of all time and I don't see any indication that demand for the switch 2 will be softer.
Well we still don't have a date on it and many previous Nintendo launches have had demand way outstrip supply, leading to the new console being a pretty hot item way past initial launch date.
Perhaps for people who want gamepass but don't want to deal with PC gaming. But I can't really think of anyone I'd recommend buying an Xbox to currently. Really the last place platform this generation, by a lot.
I don't fancy their odds with the switch 2 coming out and eating their hype cycle. Have a feeling people would view this more as an xsx pro than a full generational upgrade. I honestly don't think Xbox stock has ever been lower so they better hope this doesn't flop (or perhaps hope that Sony does something really dumb with the PS6 launch, which admittedly is far from out of the question).
Played a fair amount of this at launch, but will probably wait until 1.0 to go back. I'm assuming it's a lot less buggy now?
The back and forth on twitter/bluesky over this topic was pretty wide ranging, and size/cost definitely was a topic discussed. And besides a lot of the "quality" of BG3 was the fact that it supported endless paths through the game, something which requires a lot of development effort.