A short YouTube conversation (recorded July 4, 2024) arguing that the games industry is currently stagnating because big, expensive AAA titles encourage safe copying and stagnant growth. Matt Wolfe and another speaker note a contemporaneous renaissance among indie developers and predict that new tooling will enable smaller studios to compete with major publishers within ~two years.
The game industry is in a really stagnant moment. It's worse than what's happening in Hollywood, I would say. The games are so expensive to make that everyone just copies the previous game and gamers are getting tired of it. I think that's why you see the growth numbers have stagnated.
I feel like there's a big, like, sort of renaissance of indie developers right now. I'm a big gamer myself. Most of the games I play are from indie studios. They're not the big AAA games.
Sure, some of them will be resistant to it right now, but once they see what it can actually do for them, you can now compete with ea. You'll be able to produce an entire world. You'll have help with the storylines, with the characters, with the creation of the art assets. That's all coming in the next two years.
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