Cost of Product = Profit from Product
If that was the case they wouldn't be trying to one-up each other in who can make the uglier female character.
By no metric do the devs under MicroSoft's or Sony's banner operate with the goal of making a profit. If they did, they wouldn't be making the games they're making, or marketing them the way they do.
GoW: Laufey is a game for no one. The target audience will asspat the devs on social media, and then proceed to not buy the game, while the people that actually do financially support the hobby are disgusted by the virtue signaling tranny slop and ugly Karen protagonist.
By now most people have learned, via pattern recognition, to tell when a game is for the "modern audience", and to peace out.
Interstellar is a game for no one as well - no one is going to line up to play an ugly, bald, androgynous chink lesbian. Wolverine is actively hostile towards the people that might actually want to play it.
Same goes with pretty much every turd MS has greenlit since their modern gaming push. Just about the only company that seems to understand what audiences want was id, and even they eventually succumbed to the pozzing.
MS and Sony have nothing, no killer app in the pipeline that people are genuinely excited for. Some may claim TES VI could be it, but the game has been in dev hell for close to a decade now, with no sign of being anywhere near completion, and when it eventually comes out, it will be the same Bethesda slop everyone has played through half a dozen times already.
We are basically witnessing a gaming crash in slow-motion. Hundreds of Western studios have closed by now, most due to entirely avoidable, self-inflicted flops, tens of thousands of Western gamedevs have been laid off, most unlikely to ever find another job in the industry because it has shrunk so much, and what positions there are will either go to the most competent, or the most nepotistic candidate.
There's no recovering from this unless drastic changes are made and management begins a through purge of leftist activists at every level, but that's not likely to happen because management is equally infected with the mind virus.
Meanwhile China, Korea and a resurgent Japan are looming on the horizon.
No idea if the Spiderman games sell well or not, but, they seem really samey and boring to me
Spider-Man 2 barely broke even, and that's likely only because of Sony accounting fuckery.
