Amazon thought it could compete with Steam because it was so much larger than Valve, but Prime Gaming's former VP admits that 'gamers already had the solution to their problems'
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"Just because you are big enough to build something doesn’t mean people will use it."

It’s really interesting to see how out of touch with reality these folks are, really an eye opening article.

  • ohulancutash@feddit.ukEnglish
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    2 days ago

    That wasn’t the case. In 2023 dollars, the LotR trilogy had a budget of around $513 million, eventually resulting in about 12 hours of finished product. RoP has a budget of about $150m for around 9 hours. So the trilogy spent $42m per hour compared to RoP’s $16m per hour.