Assassin’s Creed Valhalla – did it need to be so long? Video games are currently in crisis, there’s no doubt about that. Console sales are down, the cost of making games is up, and the number of different genres that are still economically viable are shrinking by the day. Not only that but the number of games people are playing is shrinking too, as many stick with the same live service game they’ve been playing for years and buy even less new games than they ever did.
If you’re reading this and thinking, ‘But I like long games!’ that’s fine. I’m not having a go at you. But the problem is it’s unsustainable. Games are already too expensive to make, and need too many people, so trying to make them all last 60+ hours on top of that is madness.
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