Several genres have gone extinct in the AAA space. Point and click adventure games, plastic instrument rythme games, and others are on life support like RTSes. What other genres do you think are next of being unprofitable at AAA production values?
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NOVEMBER 22, 2023
For example, I think fighting games that aren't Street Fighter or Mortal Kombat have little chance of AAA success nowadays. You are correct about RTS games falling off - genre-adjacent games like MOBAs and Tower Defense games have fallen off alongside them. I think short-form narrative games (e.g.
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