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Microsoft says the 2-3 year development cycles of big-budget games are over (www.axios.com)

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The time sink was probably in prototyping for new ideas to serve as the core of the game, then in generating content that would be considered innovative and fun for people to use that core with. Games are often a moving target where they need to try things that don’t work before finding ideas that will last.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Meaning that graphics really are not the reason for why games have such long development cycles at all.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

They took an entire year for just polishing up the game. I’m sure everything else took great time too lol.