2024-08-01 01:27:52
The trend of more than 30 years of preparing a degree video game Inspired by the Olympic Games has just had a cessation, since those carried out in Paris This 2024, they will not go to consoles.
According to the professor of the Seattle University, Christopher PaulSpecialized in Media and Communicationbelieves that the main reason for this fact is economic.
“Sports games are extremely fragile products that only find buyers at the beginning of the sports season. With the Olympic video gamesit is even worse, the publisher only has a two-month window every four years during which he can hope to sell them,” he told the French outlet, The world.
Los Olympic Games They are a very popular television event. However, because it is a relatively short event, it is difficult to achieve sustainable success with a video game with this theme, according to the expert.
In that sense, after the Olympic season concludes, it is common to see these titles sold off in stores or included with a console, as has happened with the Sonic y Mario of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Gameswhich were given away with the purchase of the Nintendo Switch.
Over the past 40 years, every summer Olympic event (with the exception of the 1988 Seoul Games) has had its own video game title, but rising development costs and the fee required to use the event’s official license are some of the things that have kept the publishers of these specific products away from any interest in publishing it in this format.
SEGA had been primarily responsible for these items, including the popular crossovers of its character Sonic with that of Nintendo Mario Bros.
The last official Olympic video games from this studio were released in 2019 for the Tokyo 2020 Games.
For Paris 2024, there is a game available, known as Olympics Go!which is free for mobile phones, but is far from the console tradition, as it is full of microtransactions and NFTs.
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2024-08-01 01:27:52