Soaring Costs and Long Dev Times Create Console Gaming Crisis as Sony and Microsoft Shun Core Fixes
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Console gaming is in crisis due to soaring game development budgets and long development times limiting the number of games released.
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Sony and Microsoft seem unwilling to address these core budget and development time issues. Instead they are taking the extreme measure of making exclusives multiplatform.
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The author fears the loss of exclusives will mean less incentive for big investments in AAA games, further exacerbating the crisis.
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The author sees Sony and Microsoft as all but giving up on traditional single-player console gaming, shifting focus to live service and mobile games instead.
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By refusing to fix the core issues, the author argues Sony and Microsoft are letting traditional console gaming die off rather than saving it.