I don’t suppose that may occur. Indie video games aren’t being held again by AAA video games proper now, they’re held again by the pure measurement restrict of their very own audiences and their capability to market themselves to gamers. The overwhelming majority of gamers who stop enjoying Name of Obligation in a AAApocalypse state of affairs aren’t going to search for indie FPS video games to fill that void since there received’t be any. They’re going to go do one thing else with their time.
These indies that do nicely will develop over time as a result of that’s what gamers usually need – higher visuals, extra gameplay, extra content material, extra of all the pieces. If these video games want to proceed by rising to satisfy these calls for, they are going to be to pivot towards these issues – hiring extra builders to construct extra content material, higher visuals, higher tech, and so forth. By iteration, they ultimately grow to be AAA recreation franchises by transferring extra in the direction of the broader viewers wanted to financially assist the franchise with every successive iteration and the everlasting demand for “extra”.
The explanation that AAA video games proceed to be made is as a result of there’s a big marketplace for them. As a lot as terminally-online gamers will complain about them, there’s lots of people who like them sufficient to purchase them at full value and maintain the machine going. I don’t imagine that these gamers who need large content material and big visuals of their video games will pivot to indies, I believe they’ll transfer to whoever fills the void with a comparable expertise.
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