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Videogame development times are getting out of control (hexbear.net)

submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Death Stranding came out in 2019. Death Stranding 2 will come out in 2025. That's six years for two games. If these were the PS2 days Kojima would have cranked out 3 Death Stranding games by now and we'd be getting Death Stranding 3: Subsistence along with a teaser for Death Stranding 4 next year.

Remember when video game trilogies used be to a huge thing in the sixth and seventh generations? You'd typically get 3 games in about 5-7 years

See: Halo, Gears of War, Resistance, Killzone, etc

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

good games take time to develop and there are already way too many games

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago

Bad games take time now as well. The problem is most of the work isn't being spent on things that make the game fun. It's graphical shit and debugging said graphical shit.