Disappear is a word that suggests no cause.

Those words imply a culprit.

A disappearance is mysterious.

Snake Pipo Ape from Ape Escape

Maybe no one did it, who knows?

Ape Escape 4 is badly overdue.

Double-A Homicide

But we know what happened to the double-A market.

Collage image with Fuse from Apex Legends in the foreground and characters from Concord and Radical Heights in the background.

It isn’t a mystery, and Yoshida alludes to the cause in the same conversation.

When taken together, those two causes Yoshida references explain the death of double-A.

The problem plaguing mid-budget games is the same problem plaguing mid-budgetmovies.

Gravity Rush title artwork of Kat facing city sideways.

Hollywood mostly makes mega-budget blockbusters and low-budget indie films.

In the case of indies, platform holders benefit, but the creators take all the risk.

Big risk for big success, small risk for small failure.

Collage image with Ape Escape, Hi-Fi Rush, and Gravity Rush 2.

Astro Bot highlights that it was always a mistake to let double-A games die on the vine.

I’m not sure whose idea this was, but I’d like to have a word with them.

astro in a new astro bot speddrunning level.

via PlayStation

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