Is the sim genre dead?

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Originally Posted by SgtPotato

Well, we have too many casual games and casual players...

On average, the production costs per game today are 18-28 million U.S. dollars, top titles like CoD:MW are up to 40 million U.S. dollar. Therefore many publishers are considering whether to invest these sums in a genre that due to the smaller number of customers not nearly getting the invested dollars back.