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Video Games Can’t Afford to Look This Good (www.nytimes.com)
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[-] yesman@lemmy.world 36 points 3 days ago

This article's reasoning is faith based. The cornerstone assumption is that industry profits and layoffs obey the preferences of the market.

To those who follow the industry, this is demonstrably false. What follows is the lack of awareness on full display:

and even though Spider-Man 2 sold more than 11 million copies, several members of Insomniac lost their jobs when Sony announced 900 layoffs in February.

this post was submitted on 26 Dec 2024
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