

So when games like this are praised without acknowledging the cost, the conflation is an oddly caustic and damaging one. In the case of Konami that trigger has already been pulled, again likely based off a long-running trend of big budget games that didn’t sell like they were required to.

In the last decade we’ve already lost a huge amount of developers from the industry and that has resulted in a wave of risk averse functionally standardized big budget failures, which in turn has fed into this dangerous downward spiral for console game production. When big budget games don’t or take a long time to make their money back, publishers tend to pull the plug on studios.
