They're just chasing the money. No thoughts. Completely empty head. Just seeing Big Number Go Up and throwing themselves in afterwards. Nevermind that the mobile market is comically over-saturated or that mobile controls are notoriously dogshit or that crossplay consoles (like the Switch and the Steam Deck) appear to be opening up a ton of new handheld options.

Nope. We're going to sink another $10B into a knock off of Candy Crush and just hope we can break even on the tsunami of ads we plan to unleash in promotion.

>tells one of their most beloved studios to pivot from quality single player games into live service slop

>reveals the slop after eight years or whatever, everyone hates it.

>releases it anyway, it flops, everyone still hates it

>"AAA games are volatile guys, live services but on phones are the futute"

"You know that thing we tried last year we failed miserably at? We're gonna do only that from now on."

Because of the brain dead who spend money on trashy cash grabs it’s actually the right move in terms of profit motive. Look at how much cash is printed by them with minimal up front risk.

Like anything else, video games under capitalism is a race to the bottom.

i've always wanted to play harry potter and the ongoing basis

Honestly it's for the best. They were shit at making real games anyways.

Continuous failure is also consistency. It doesn't make sense to strive for mediocrity, but okay.