Actually Investigating Why AAA Games Fail

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I gathered information about 40 big-budget flops to try and find out how some of these games made by some of the biggest companies in the world make losses every year. Here's what I found out. Contents: 00:00 Intro 01:19 A look at the data 02:44 Bugs 03:18 Marketing 04:14 Publisher Expectations 04:54 Disappointing Gameplay 07:30 Why AAA games fail Check out Super Bunnyhop's Hitman 2016 video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqAF2j_X-_c&t=58s&ab_channel=SuperBunnyhop Sources: (This list has got most of them, I couldn't fit all of them due to description length limits) Joseph Anderson's Fallout 76 Bugs Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6HdBplLmuU&t=4877s&ab_channel=JosephAnderson Internet Historian's Fallout 76 Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjyeCdd-dl8&t=132s&ab_channel=InternetHistorian https://steamcharts.com https://www.eurogamer.net/suicide-squad-kill-the-justice-league-developer-rocksteady-hit-by-end-of-year-layoffs https://www.ign.com/articles/suicide-squad-kill-

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