Have you noticed that since like 2012ish, theres been a dramatic decrease in the number of movie tie-in video games? Used to be every upcoming blockbuster would get one, now they're rare.
What happened?
Disney owns everything now and they shut down their gaming divisions.
Smart phones. You can just make an endless runner now and watch the money roll in.
>>342516438
They're on mobile these days
>>342516635
This desu senpai
All the new blockbuster movie releases have iOS games associated with them now. They are piss easy to make, low budget, and micro transactions means they'll keep making money.
>No Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3 ever
>>342516438
free to play mobile games. cheaper to make than a "full feature" video game and often makes a huge profit.
It's cheaper and more profitable to make a free to play mobile app with microtransactions. People will continue playing and buying things in those for awhile, while with movie tie in console games they become completely irrelevant a month after release.
>>342516438
Games gets more and more expensive/longer to make. It's not worth it to make them on PC/consoles anymore, so they move it to crappy mobile games where the cost of making it is still low enough.
>>342516438
Most of them sucked because they were rushed out to coincide with the movie's release... people caught on.
Movie games were usually made on super short schedules, resulting in shitty games. Eventually this caught up with them, and sales were eventually lower as a result.
Plus with mobile games, you can just release a smaller game that's far less of a risk. See Minions or Guardians of the Galaxy: The Universal Weapon
>>342516438
Spin-off videogames about non-vidya franchises are more profitable, as they can bait in the core audience with a one or two good games and then recycle the formula until a reboot will be made. Rocksteady and telltate cashed in on this, Insomniac's spiderman is gonna be next.
>>342516826
At least the first UA is getting remastered for next gen, which is kinda nice
>>342517271
>another half-assed Activision "remaster" that runs worse than original version like PROTOTYPE
No thank you
>>342516438
Longer development times have made it harder and harder to rush out games, especially games with decent graphics, which pretty much is a must in movie games.
Also mobile games are simply more profitable
>>342516826
if ps4 spiderman is good and sells, maybe disney will start giving a shit
they got progessively worse on their tight release schedules and probably got too expensive to make vs too little consumer base buying them, due to the insane flood of capeshit movies we got in the recent years
Mobile literally became a cash-in filterer.
Isn't it wonderful?
>>342518165
I heard if PSpiderman does great they'll make more Marvel hero games
>Iron Man and Cap game in this day and age
