The 2025 Events Thread – New Year, Same Old Corp Speak!

[Hero-of-Time]

A JRPG focused Indie show is airing at the end of the month.

[drahkon]

Oh, I see a monster battler 42 seconds into the trailer?
Nintendo's lawyers rubbing their hands.

Seems like a great show, though. Not gonna tune in, but looking forward to reading up about the games  

[Hero-of-Time]

Companies confirmed for SGF.

[Hero-of-Time]

It doesn't surprise me why many indie developers are struggling to make ends meet. The show really highlighted that there are simply far too many games being made. Sure, a lot of the games shown look great but realistically how many are going to get the numbers needed for them to be considered a success?

[Dcubed]

8 hours ago, Hero-of-Time said:

It doesn't surprise me why many indie developers are struggling to make ends meet. The show really highlighted that there are simply far too many games being made. Sure, a lot of the games shown look great but realistically how many are going to get the numbers needed for them to be considered a success?

Very true.  The market is just oversaturated.  There’s no way that anyone has the time to play them all; hell even have time to even find out about everything coming out!

[Cube]

18,825 new games were released on Steam last year. 

 

That's approximately four entire N64 libraries every month.

 

 

[Hero-of-Time]

9 minutes ago, Cube said:

18,825 new games were released on Steam last year.

 

It's just insane.

[killthenet]

It would be interesting to know how many of those are asset flips or AI generated slop (it's probably a big percentage) but yeah, there are still way too many genuine games released each year - it must be so hard for devs without contacts or an inbuilt audience to get noticed

[Julius]

51 minutes ago, Cube said:

That's approximately four entire N64 libraries every month.

The N256 is upon us