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[minimaxir]

The AAA gaming economics are a different issue: budgets have ballooned so much that it's near impossible to hit breakeven.

The games you mentioned are extreme outliers (no one expected BG3 to do as well as it did), and there have been a number of studio-killing bombs this year.

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Can you name them? I have a lot of anger at the AAA studios

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Spiderman 2. What the parent is referencing is things we know from the Insomniac leak.