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They said that they plan to double the scale " in the long run" so it shouldn't necessarily be a rapid expansion.... Let's hope for the best
Do you mean the app store/google play store itself? If so I can kind of see your case since other storefronts with better games will become potentially playable on those platforms.
How so? Team Ninja already makes AAA-scale games, but in what they're severely lacking of relative to their competitors are the production values. With this investment on AAA, I gather that Koei Tecmo's goal is to put their biggest games on par with the presentation quality of the tentpole releases from Square Enix, Capcom or Konami, which can only be a positive in my opinion.
Those are the same games though, just played also on PC/Consoles (Genshin&co)
It will continue to thrive for at least next several years as post-genshin wave still pretty much in early stage
their games sells....fine, quite a risk imo
I mean the mobile gaming market is going to be harder and harder to break into as a whole. There was a bunch of low quality .png trash for years, but the products out there now are near AA/AAA quality in some cases, but as their budgets and aspirations grow, it doesn't leave room for games deemed "lesser". And let's be honest, K-T was only going to make cash grab games tied to middle-tier famous IPs, if they were going to try to dig into mobile. They don't have the budget, skill, or IP strength to try to go toe to toe with Star Rail or Genshin or even established games like Fate Grand Order.
Agree with Japan losing the mobile market. I could see it happening real time, where they were so stuck in their ways and afraid to take true risks (mostly from a budgetary standpoint), that they got pushed out of the space they largely created. Even one of the biggest games from a cultural and sometimes revenue standpoint in Japan, Blue Archive, is Korean developed.
There is a huge misconception there that there can be only "a few" gaas games, while last 10 years shows steadily trend of expanding and diversification. 10 years ago top ten games grabbed like 95% revenue, now it's like top 100 games.
DOAX 4 with new deep learning jiggle physics model and RT reflections on every wet surface.
Rise of the Ronin is legit if you haven't tried it. At first I thought it was a little watered down in the combat dept vs their other games but the further I got into the game the better it felt and just a really great experience, especially on the pro. It's not Nioh 2 level but close. Honestly it's Ghosts of Tsushima level for me but many will find that blasphemy.
They need to get talents on level design, as much as a big Nioh fan, the shortcomings in the regard were obvious. While I don't mind Ronin's graphics and think the art style is top tier, if their goal is to sell 5 million+, then yes they need better graphics to attract broader audience.
This. I see this as a big risk, they will double their staff cost (other costs -office space etc will also go up) so 1-2 big titles undersell and they are f*ucked.
