What's happening in the industry is exceedingly transparent and obvious to all of us. I don't comprehend why people are acting like game companies are willfully not making new games, it completely boggles my mind. We are all here posting and reading about games every day. We know what is up right now. Call of Duty, the king of "comes out every year" transitioned to a 3 year cycle because they need it. To be a reductive jerk, that's 3 years for a 4-6 hour campaign and a multiplayer largely based on existing systems. Now go ahead and entirely reboot a franchise like God of War. Go ahead and build a whole new franchise, not based on anything. Tell me how long you think it should take. How long have Arkham Knight, the Witcher 3 and MGSV been in development? How long does a GTA game take? How long will Uncharted 3's development have been when it finally comes out? And you want brand new games/franchises of that caliber, now?
We know that every single AAA game is a 2-5 year process. We also know that the new consoles just came out. Only a fraction of developers had started building any games at all before the consoles came out, because that's smart business. If that makes you angry - OK? When you have a multimillion dollar company, you can tell your workforce to ignore the giant install bases and start building a game for a console with 0 users because it seems it will be popular.
PS4 was released in November 2013. That's 1 year and 4 months ago, roughly.
1 year. 4 months.
Every AAA game is a 2-5 year process.
Something doesn't add up between our expectations and the reality of the situation.
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