@[email protected] to [email protected]English • 2 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-up139arrow-down12
arrow-up137arrow-down1external-linkMicrosoft and Activision have formed a new team within Blizzard to work on smaller 'AA' games based on existing IPwww.windowscentral.com@[email protected] to [email protected]English • 2 months agomessage-square16fedilink
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish5•2 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-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish7•2 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.
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.