Blessing Adeoye Jr.

Does that number astound you?

$200 million?

It's such a weird one because, to your point,

This is kind of where, in the last few years, with leaks and internal documents coming to light and all this shit, it feels like this is becoming more of the standard at that top level of AAA.

You know what I mean?

When you say Sony first party is putting out a game, it's probably gonna be around this range, which is a crazy number, but we've been saying for years, video games are becoming more expensive to make.

What do we think that means when we say that sentence?

They're getting, like, yeah, this is what we mean.

The games are getting more expensive to make.

They're taking longer to make, which, in turn, makes them more expensive.

You know what I mean?

Like, this, I think, is par for the course.

But also, this lines up with everything that we've been talking about as far as the precarious place that video games industry is.

Yes.

Where we're talking about a matured medium that is struggling to continue to grow in the way that shareholders, the people that invest money want to see that line go up.

It's like, no, the line is has evened out.

And so when you're putting in more and more money and the line isn't going up, up, up.

Yeah.

Like disaster is disaster is going to happen.

So I'm looking at this and I'm like, damn, dude.