There’s a reason publisher Bethesda Softworks has re-released that open-world RPG so many times: It holds up. And, really, that change started in 2011 with the release of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. OK, Swasey’s point that no one is going to want to play an old Madden is right, but gaming has changed a lot since 2010. But that has started to change, and The Witcher 3 is indicative of that. At that time, games quickly lost their value because technology was advancing so rapidly. Three top investment pros open up about what it takes to get your video game funded.Īnd Swasey had a point back in 2010. One of the questions I asked Swasey was if Netflix would ever begin renting games. That original story is lost to the internet Langoliers, but here’s an archived version of a G4TV story about the interview.
And I did an interview with then Netflix VP of communications Steve Swasey. But more important, it reveals how games like The Witcher 3 are lasting longer than ever.īack in 2010, I was writing about games “freelance” (I was getting paid $200 a month to write news stories while also delivering sandwiches for Jimmy John’s). This comes as a result of the megapopular new Netflix show The Witcher, which premiered December 20. While it had 92,268 simultaneous Steam players on its 2015 launch day, it surpassed that concurrent-player figure with 94,601 players yesterday, December 29, 2019. The role-playing adventure debuted May 1, 2015, but it is actually more popular than ever.
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