I bought the stock when it was lower. I figure they have decent IP and it is worth something to someone and either that will result in someone acquiring them or they'll turn it around enough before they go bankrupt. They have been talking with tencent...which owns a chunk of stock already ...
Switch 2 doesn't seem like it will hurt their fortunes either.
This business model needs to go the way of the dodo.
How about this, hire devs or at least leads who are capable of making a game on their own.
It worked great in the 80s and 90s and there are countless examples of recent indies made by 1-5 people.
Imagine say three of these teams getting together and doing a bigger project.
This was essentially what the PlayStation/Saturn era gave us when the smaller teams from the 8-16 bit era had to join together to make more complicated 3D games.
You need to start with people who have basic competence though, and school hasn't been conferring this for decades.
now, guess what would happen if they said to the wokies "fuck off, we are going to have a proper Japanese male samurai as our hero.
GTA 6 level sales, just from the huge based turnaround.