Nacon Feels There Are ‘Too Many Video games’ Now and Requirements of Avid gamers Have Elevated

Nacon, a online game firm that owns Large Ant Studios (Cricket 24) and Daedalic Leisure (The Lord of the Rings: Gollum) studios amongst others, feels that there are just too many video games on the market, and feels that the COVID-19 lockdown is the first motive behind it.

Nacon’s head of publishing Benoit Clerc made the assertion in an interview with GamesIndustry.biz. He mentioned, “There are too many video games at the moment available on the market. We’re seeing at this time the outcomes of funding made after [Covid] when the market was bursting, and each sport was making some huge cash so there have been a variety of investments being made.”

He added that the video games we’ve proper now are the results of the funding made two or three years in the past throughout the COVID-19 interval, and now there are “just too many for purchasers to have the ability to play them.”

Plethora of video games on Steam

There are certainly tens of hundreds of latest video games available on the market as Valve had just lately revealed that over 14,000 video games have been launched on Steam in 2023. This broke the information at Steam, and we’ve already had 510 video games launched in 2024, as per SteamDB.

Clerc talked about Steam as effectively, highlighting that “whenever you take a look at Steam some days, there are 50 or 60 video games launched in sooner or later solely so it is tougher to get sufficient traction to reveal a sport. We’re seeing releases which might be and not using a day one, to make use of the previous retail expression, with none publicity of a title that has been correctly marketed.”

He continued, including that for this reason he’s “spending $200 million on promotion” and Nacon is concentrating on players who’re keen about sure genres, and giving an instance of WRC, Ravenswatch, and Cricket 24. “They know the game and sport mechanics very effectively, and I want builders in entrance of that who’ve the identical experience and share the identical ardour to ensure that these two teams to speak collectively.”

Curiously, Clerc additionally claims that video games that do not need a super-specific angle to cater to an viewers can discover themselves in a tough spot since “the requirements when it comes to manufacturing values, size of expertise and information of our medium from prospects are going up.”

Talking about Nacon once more, he provides that the corporate is “ready for innovation, so we do want to speculate greater than we did previously, like some other mid-tier writer.”