Ashtear@lemm.ee to Games@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 months agoMicrosoft and Activision have formed a new team within Blizzard to work on smaller 'AA' games based on existing IPwww.windowscentral.comexternal-linkmessage-square16fedilinkarrow-up152arrow-down12cross-posted to: pcgaming@lemmy.cagames@sh.itjust.works
arrow-up150arrow-down1external-linkMicrosoft and Activision have formed a new team within Blizzard to work on smaller 'AA' games based on existing IPwww.windowscentral.comAshtear@lemm.ee to Games@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 months agomessage-square16fedilinkcross-posted to: pcgaming@lemmy.cagames@sh.itjust.works
minus-squarebigmclargehuge@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·6 months agoThis… is actually kind of exciting. Two massive studios (potentially) showing they also feel that the current AAA space is saturated with boring, soulless, samey games, year after year.
minus-squareCroquette@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10arrow-down1·5 months agoThat’s a naive take. Microsoft saw that there is money to make in AA games, so they want in on the action. If they didn’t think that AA games could increase their profits, they wouldn’t do it.
minus-squarebigmclargehuge@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·5 months ago That’s a naive optimistic take.
This… is actually kind of exciting. Two massive studios (potentially) showing they also feel that the current AAA space is saturated with boring, soulless, samey games, year after year.
That’s a naive take. Microsoft saw that there is money to make in AA games, so they want in on the action.
If they didn’t think that AA games could increase their profits, they wouldn’t do it.