Men_in_Boxes
Snake Oil Salesman
There's roughly 4 genres that make waves in the multiplayer space nowadays...
1. Team based sports games.
2. Battle Royale/Extraction
3. Survival
4. Co-OP
Helldivers 2 blew up because it wasn't a fighter, it wasn't an arena shooter, it wasn't an RTS.
PlayStation identified a trendy genre, supported a studio that made games in that genre and...voila, it worked! Their "big gamble" paid off handsomely. What are the odds?
May this be a lesson to those who say publishers shouldn't "chase trends". No, they actually should.
1. Team based sports games.
2. Battle Royale/Extraction
3. Survival
4. Co-OP
Helldivers 2 blew up because it wasn't a fighter, it wasn't an arena shooter, it wasn't an RTS.
PlayStation identified a trendy genre, supported a studio that made games in that genre and...voila, it worked! Their "big gamble" paid off handsomely. What are the odds?
May this be a lesson to those who say publishers shouldn't "chase trends". No, they actually should.
![671af244-89b3-4b77-ab9c-8c5a80fd857f_text.gif](https://y.yarn.co/671af244-89b3-4b77-ab9c-8c5a80fd857f_text.gif)
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