Are you ready for 1 billion $ game budgets, /v/?The industry sure is. 90$ for a copy will soon be the industry standard.
>>750649095why are budgets increasing if we know have AI?isnt AI supposed to reduce budgets?
>>750649325Naughty Dog has like a thousand employees, I dont think they work much with AI.
>>750649095dont care not buying it
>>750649095does anyone know a single person excited for or even remembering this game?this feels like it flopped before even releasing
>>750649095It will be the biggest flop of all time
>>750649464Snoys love these moviegames, will 100% sell millions of copies
>>750649495Jeet the saar 6 is taking that award
>>750649464Every single active PS5 owner.
>>750649513just like wolverine, right
>>750649592You really think GTA6 will flop harder than Intergalactic?!
>>750649464I'm excited to see it flop.
>>750649675still sold 3 million despite doomposting from xfags and tendies, cope
>>750649675wolverine is a financial success even after the forced hate campaign that was run against it.
>>750649095My standard is $0 for 0 copies. I have a strict moral policy against pirating non abandonware because I refuse to waste my time giving attention to modern dev slop.
>>750649592It's already made more than its budget just from preorders, how are you still clinging to this delusion?
>>750649779>>750649802samefag bot
>>750649095>90$ for a copy will soon be the industry standardimplying the industry will survive GTA 6 being midAAA gaming has less than a month before it ceases to exist
>>7506497793mil is abysmal for a AAA game
>>750649802>wolverine is a financial success[citation needed]
>>750649802No one is going to take your word when you're so obviously a wokeshit, all you people do is lie.
>>750649095Ban Steam Chart swords.
The games keep flopping yet they throw more and more money at them as if it's going to fix anything. Just get rid of the HR foids and let the nerdy white and asian guys do what they want if you want a profit.
>>750649095Why are games these days 80 dollars standard? They dont make disc's anymore, box art, fuck man in my day games came with a fucking manual . It should cost nothing to make.
>>750650498games used to be made by a team of 50 mennow those teams are thousands of people with roles such as "social media consultant", and "diversity facilitator"
>>750649095I'm ready. The companies making those games aren't.
>>750649464I actually forgot it existed until I saw this thread...
>>750649095Naughyy Dog is insane. That's WAY TOO MUCH money to attempt to recoup and that's after people are soured after TLOU2 and you put in a weird looking bald blasian chick as the protag
>>750649095Sword looks like a profile gauge.
>>750651627Wtf I thought likes were hidden now?
>>750649095I havent bought an AAA game in since rise came out so I dont give a shit.
>>750649802>hate campaignsome call it reverse marketing
>>750649095>basedid poostein
>>750649387everybody who is working on a computer is working with AI nowadays, otherwise they get left behind>>750649464most people who like TLOU will buy itIf they make her customizable people might change their mind and buy it. Also the gameplay will definitely be top tier so /v/ will probably like it if they actually give it a chance.
>>750652290>if they make her customizable people might change their mind and buy itlol
Remember when 20 years ago Hiroshi Yamauchi was worried that games were becoming too expensive to make?
I was listening to someone who was saying if a game costs a billion dollars basically it should be the best game ever it should revolutionize gaming, but we already know that's not what we're getting it's insane.
>>750649095they aren't even hiding the fact they just steal all this money now.
>>750649387They're tokenmaxxing their AI, but that wouldn't solve spending like 4 or 5 years scratching their balls every day so now they're basically having to crunch like hell.
>>750649095Cant wait for this gem to launch so I get to do nothing and see another studio close.
>>750652824kinda crazy that this is the high point in most /v/ posters lives right now, just watching Asmongold post the McDonalds meme
>>750649095Nothing but the biggest live service games are going to be hitting a billion. Movie games like Intergalactic with little in the way of monetization and tepid retail enthusiasm are going to be fazed out or become European dev projects where you can cut the budget in half because you don't have to pay European devs as much as Americans.
>>750649095And it will look exactly like every other PS5 game.
>>750652397That was 30 years ago, in the 90s. That was when shit like FF7's $50 million or Shenmue's $70 million budget was considered batshit insane.
>>750652290>most people who like TLOU will buy itThe Ip got double raped. I dont think that the TLOU fans are interested in this dumpster IP after the nosedive of tlou2 & the series. Besides its a nu IP and the sole reason is to generate a new fanbase i just fail to see who except bipoc tranny niggers should care for this character and her story.
>>750652824I don't think Sony would ever close ND, they'd just quietly restructure and turn them into a ball and gun factory.I also think in the coming years, more owned-studios are gonna lose the ability to greenlight their own games.
>>750649095The dollar sign goes before the number, brown person.
>>750649095Naughty Dog is fucked after this game comes out because it's gonna need to sell like twenty million copies just to break even, and it's not gonna sell twenty million copies.
>>750652920watching studios die is now more fun than modern day gaming
>>750649779do we have proof of this?
>>750649095I'll never get over how fucking awful this game's title is, even just compared to the rest of ND's games>Crash BandicootMemorable, sounds like a fun game about a fun little critter, that's exactly what it is>Jak & DaxterNot as immediately evocative, but memorable and it at least lets you know the game will have two main characters, which it does>UnchartedOne word, very evocative, immediately makes you think of adventure and swashbuckling and shit>The Last of UsEvocative and memorable, obviously gonna be a post-apocalyptic game, probably with a sad/tragic story>INTERGALACTIC: THE HERETIC PROPHETUh... IDK I guess it's a space game or something with some generic video game cult full of guys to kill
I'VE HEAR ENOUGH, SEND 100 MILLION DOLLARS MORE. ALL IN ON NAUGHTY DOG>t. some clueless activist investor that has a gambling problem
>>750653280Anything's possibleIf you would've told people in the late 2000s early 2010s that BioWare was gonna die in the future, they'd have thought you were crazyND is harder to kill than BioWare due to still being a Sony darling for now, but if ND's name gets dragged through the mud enough, I don't think Sony would wanna keep them around even as a Ball & Gun factory when they have plenty of those alreadyDepends on if they can right the ship after Intergalactic most likely bombs
>>750649779>still sold 3 millionaccording to literal made up numbers from some random ass website*Still no sales announcement from Sony.LMAO
>>750651627yea, this is gonna sell millions of copies
>>750649095The industry is definitely doomed if they truly think this way. Game development isn't really sustainable in its current state, and it would be insane to think it would be any better by increasing budgets. A single "flop" would be even more devastating, making closures even more of an inevitable result.What they really need to address is the current development process. It's ridiculous how long and expensive it is to make a AAA game now, especially how poorly executed some of them are. We'd used to get multiple games in a franchise for a single console generation, but now we'd be lucky if we even get one. How are you supposed to financially support and build/maintain a franchise, a dev team/studio, and a console with the current output of games. Even if increasing budgets somehow speed things up, it's just a band aid solution.
>>750649095>600 million>devs can’t figure out how clippers work
>>750653558Alinea which was deemed factual by this board.
>>750649095hellovideo game and anime girls love me only and have sex with me only and not weak loser gay nerds like you guys, but you can have naughty dog girls and GTA girls. i have done the research and they are perfect matches for you guys
>>750653678Non sequels that have a sub-title always annoy me.
money laundering has never been this good>yes of course we spent half a billion making a video game>no we didn't send 90% of the budget to off shore accounts
>>750649095That's fine. I'll keep buying $15 indie games and $40 AA games.
>>750658229STOP KILLING THE INDUSTRY
>>750653558Nope. Not a single word.
>>750649513>will 100% sell millions of copiesWell, it's likely that it will see more than 2 million, yes.
>>750649464I think it's impossible to be excited for because the only interesting aspect of the trailer was the product placement, which is pretty pathetic. Even stuff like Horizon was more interesting at first glance because of the robot dinosaur gimmick. We have no idea what Intergalactic really is at this point. It may be end up being a fine game, but unless it has a really strong hook to get normies on board at first glance, it's probably going to struggle as a new IP.
why do you guys keep buying these games
>>750659281Because they are good?
>>750659281Who's you guys? The industry crashed.
>>750659952if it crashed, then how do they keep making these games? there is a constant flow of them, and it isn't stopping. someone's buying this shit.
>>750659281I love movie games, i'm having a blast in them (unironically)
>>750658110do you think all the employees are working for free? or all the employees are made up and not actually there?
>>750652290Point to people who still like TLOU. 2 fucked the series so hard it even killed the television show. I don't know if Naughty Dog still have a strong fanbase.
>>750660140Naughty Dog games are a cut above other movie games in terms of their gameplay. I think that's because they're intentionally trying to be cinematic in the way that action movies are while also being fun to play, iirc that was their whole design philosophy with Uncharted
>>750660098The goal of propaganda isn't profit and money isn't real to the tribe.
>>750649095TLoU2 controversy really hurt Naughty Dogs public’s image, they kind of brought it back with the first season of the TV show but unsurprisingly lost it again while rehashing the story from the second game (interestingly once it hit TV audiences nobody was an evil Nazi for not liking the story, it just wasn’t very good). This game has a lot of red flags for “woke” games that, no matter what you believe, are just controversial these days, and going to get the game a bad wrap before it even gets shown. Neil’s absolute dog shit behavior towards his own fanbase isn’t going to help, and there’s really just absolutely no buzz around this game whatsoever. The only people who know anything about it know about it because they hate it already. If it gets delayed and pushed out of budget, they probably just need to throw in the towel, it’s gonna be a big loss, especially if you wait for half a decade after woke ends to release a woke game.
>>750660331Their gameplay is never anything particularly special, but their animation work is always top notch.
cant wait to watch someone else play it on youtubeAnd by that I mean having it in the background as I play an actual game
>>750659281GoW 4 and TLoU 1 were my last “I’ll give you a shot” for AAA games getting shilled pretty hard, and I got those for a discount after picking up a PS4 late into its cycle. If it doesn’t personally look interesting or is not recommended by someone that I actually know then I’m not bothering anymore.
>>750649095there is no way in hell even SNOY still believe it's worth investing half a billy into>BALD LESBIAN GIRLBOSS>MELEE IN A SCI FI SETTINGeven the most woke retard would see that both the protag and the gameplay scenario* are obvious red flags for a big budget game. wtf are they smoking at SNOY to not cancel this project or force a full rewrite with custom protagonist (aka male) and Druckman's weird jewish lore removed from the full plot we already know and... it's so bizarre they haven't canceled it.*inb4 that small indie FPS where everything is an instant kill, not relevant in context.
>>750660872sunk costtax write off
>>750649095This failure will be measured in Titanics.
>90$ for a copy will soon be the industry standard.I wish people under 18 were banned from this website.
>>750661189I wish your position would be extinguished and your studio would- Oh, would you look at that, didn't even survive long enough for the GTA induced mass suicide. Sad!
>>750649095everyone knows ND is shutting down once this releases
>>750661189no wonder piracy in the 90s was a big hit culturally
>>750649095Money laundering doesn't work if the numbers get too unreasonable.
>>750649095lets gooooo a new tortanic
>>750650025Modern AAA studios have lost the plot and don't know how to complete things in a normal time window anymore. Time management is literally a lost art to them all.It's simply a symptom of investment fueled public companies and selling the promise of the greatest profit margin ever, a margin so good it justifies the retarded expenses, and then just praying it does well, and if it doesn't do insanely well? Just fire everyone.
>>750649095If you're going to delay it at least change the horrid title. Nobody will remember this game even exists, let alone want to say the whole thing in a discussion.
>>750661016How are they gonna do a tax write off?
>>750649387What the hell do they do all day
>>750652824same
>>750660098stupid investors
>>750649095cheese. wtf? we're gonna have ai games before this is done.
>>750649325>>750649387Druckmann thinks he can be like Kojima if he fills his game with a bunch of real world brands, and unfortunately for him Playstation still pays licensing fees for using things from Sony's other divisions like the tape deck and the music rights. We already know a Lambo is supposed to show up belonging to one of the Five Aces, who knows what else he wasted millions of dollars to license out.
>>750649464>does anyone know a single person excited for or even remembering this game?Nobody outside of the most venerated snoys remembers it, GTA6 has completely wiped it from memory and will continue to do so even after Intergalactic comes out.
>>750649095JUST
>>750649095>90$ for a copy will soon be the industry standard.Ok. I suppose if there were enough suckers to make $80 viable then $90 isn't anything special either. But it's really not my problem. Go ahead.
>>750649437Based. You and me bro.
>>750649095I doubt this game is ever gonna make it's budget back, that's not even counting the marketingsony are mentally retarded, if they had any brains druckmann would be long gone alongside that faggot hulst but instead they're content on losing hundreds of millions of dollars on flops
>>750649095the worlds top retards who went to school for "business" are like "yes this will make money"
>>750649095Total triple A collapse. oooomm
>>750652920Well that's what happens when people can't even expect good games to come out anymore. Better to just sit back and watch everything burn down and hope something good comes of an industry-wide reset.
>>750660331> I think that's because they're intentionally trying to be cinematic in the way that action movies are while also being fun to play, iirc that was their whole design philosophy with UnchartedThat level of spectacle is exactly why the Uncharted series did so well. The gameplay doesn't stand out from the normal fair without it, which is why TLOU 1 and 2 sit far below them.
>>750661189>>7506619581) He posted an Ausfailian list. You can tell because it uses RRP instead of MSRP. You can use something like the Electronics Boutique catalogs to see prices that are more accurate to life.2) We had rental stores back then, so most people were only paying $8-$12 to play a game for a week. It's not like nowadays where even used games are disappearing as everything's going digital.
>>750649095Jesus Christ...
>>750664475A lambo? Isnt this game in the far future?
>>750649095what is this and how isn't it money laundering
>>750649095no one is paying 90 dollars for sloponly GTA was able to pull it off and even that made everyone 50/50 on the pricing
>>750669672a demoralization campaign that is about to backfire spectacularly
>>750649095>game costs half a billion dollars to make>it has 10 hours of content>has the same third person gameplay we've been playing since the PS3>graphics look like every other "realistic" PS5 gameWhere is the money going to?
>>750649095They better push this turd out before Sony kills discs because physical carried TLoU2.
>>750649095Don't worry AI will make development cheaper and faster and game prices will accordingly get lowered to 60$ again
>>750664475Druckman already outsold Kojima and broke into the mainstream cultural relevance that Kojima wants and will never get. You're delusional to think Druckman cares about him.
>>750669947middle management and hr
>>750649325could be a lot of things, I know that for movies the budget ceiling keeps going up and up in part for retaining talent, holding production studios for CGI open in case of last minute changes, having a veritable small army of jeets and chinamen on the payroll Personally I think the biggest reason for the ballooned budget is due to lack of commitment and constant changes that then requires them to bring back the actors and renting the studios and having all the programmers throw nearly everything away to rework parts and then you do all this they throw it at a tester who may well be retarded and that makes the higher ups force changes.
>>750649095im ready for sony to die
>>750649095>90$ for a copyThe only game I would pay that much for, is Rance X translated by a human
>>750654882
>>750649325Probably just fucktons of corruption, like people subcontracting their brother's company to render doorknobs for $29,000 each.The problem with organizations this big (including the government) is it's damn near impossible to keep anything within any sort of financial constraints. Even the committees dedicated to financial oversight are getting paid off. And without anyone that actually CARES about where the money goes (it's not their money, who cares?) watching, a lot of people end up getting overpaid. Yet, for some reason, it's never the core development team. People doing the actual work get nothing except overworked.
>>750669672Its Druckmans latest game, the guy who made the last of us
>>750669947Naughty Dog is a big studio.
>>750670058Why would physical carry this game or digital not carry it?
>>750649464it's a Kamalacore game that started development before the end-of-2024 vibe shift, and will come out to a lukewarm response at best.just like Veilguard and soon to be Laufey
>>750649464I am excited to see it cost almost a billion and then sell 200,000 copies solely so that I can watch Jason Schreier explain that it actually succeeded after 3 months of claiming that Kojima was too high budget and his games don't sell enough copies. I am not interested in Kojima nor Intergalactic. This is the only thing I know the game for and it's the only part I look forward to.
>>750672667For you.
>>750649464A lot of people are hyped for this game, /v/ echo chamber does not reflect real world
>>750673793>A lot of people are hyped for this gameno they arent, nobody likes americuck games now
>>750649095Thought that was a shitpost. What the fuck is intergalactic and why should I care?
>>750674259Its the newest game from Neil "Next guy" cuckman
>>750674361Oh lame. Well into the trash it goes. I was praying blizzard would be the next major studio to die butt I suppose not
>>750673875Cope.
>>750670158This post is hilarious. Imagine believing that mainstream relevance is having a Netflix series that even normies think is shit
>>750649095>$600M+ budget
>>750676404Its seemingly at 600 mil but incase of a longer delay it will go up big time due to the big studio size
>spending enough money to build an actual hospital>for a video game>not even a triple-AAA flagship series video game (e.g. GTA)
>>750659178If the leaks are true, which I doubt they still are with how much development hell Intergalactic seems to be going through>Heart of Darkness in space>Revenge bad>Men bad>White people bad>Open borders for genocidal monsters that hate you good
>>750677274Will be fun to see how they are trying to spin the monsters returning as a good/morally grey thing
>>750649095Oh boy, this release will be fun.
>>750649839None of these sources come from Take-Two.
>>750670158Cuckman got nextguyed while GODjima hangs out with hollywood actors regularly.
I am not remotely interested in any game modern day naughty dog puts out.
