It’s been a difficult stretch for the industry, so when we speak with Devolver Digital co-founder Nigel Lowrie at the Game Developers Conference, our first question is fairly open-ended: What is happening?
Lowrie mentions the well-established impact of the industry’s pandemic boost receding, but believes there have been compounding factors impacting different aspects of the industry as well.
“There’s us, on maybe the smaller-to-medium-size end. But on the larger end, it feels like it’s crushing under its own weight a little bit,” Lowrie said. “The consumers are so tied up in some of these really fantastic live service games, but there’s only so much time they can spend. So there are more and more huge games being launched asking for an enormous amount of time, but there’s just not that much time available for people to play.”
