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Other devs know that the real money is made by chasing the casual crowd, not by catering to a select few millions of elitist masochists that revel in seeing other people fail and telling them to git gud.

No matter how vocal FS stans are, the vast majority of video game users don’t enjoy the kind of effort that Souls requires. Even Ghosts ‘n Goblins has noob difficulty settings in its latest iteration, lest the world review bomb the game just because it doesn’t carry the sacred From Software brand. You copy the Souls formula, you know your game is going to be so very niche.

 

[Bitmap Frogs]

Miyazaki is a genius, good luck recreating that.

Seriously, he took that ultraniche small Japanese dev and turned it into a mainstay of the AAA scene while the rest of the industry dissected and analyzed his games.

He tapped onto something primal out there.