discussion AAA porn games inevitable?

[jayyou]

Why have we not seen any true AAA porn games yet? Are there any in development? There seems to be a market for them if you look at steam.

 

[Doxxi]

there are a bunch of reasons the biggest is that the actual market for them is pretty small, a bunch of them on steam get rated well but honestly dont get much traffic. Another is cultural generally when talking about AAA games it has a western bent but in japan for example they have a pretty big eroge market which at best hit like low AA tier in terms of studio size at best and while they sell well its nothing crazy.

then you have the kinda insidious side that can "accidentally" happen with something like the guy game on xbox that was a realistic porn game and one of the girls in it turned out to be a minor.

The closest we probably have to one being in development is probably subverse which lands squarely in the indie sphere

 

[Deleted member 53635]

AAA games are only made by high budget companies. Think about it. If low-budget independent porn game developers are also sanctioned, high-budget companies' porn games would not only result in stronger sanctions, but also a media scandal.

 

[MichealIsKing!]

If you mean western companies like Ubisoft, EA, Rockstar, or other companies like them because fuck no that's never gonna happen because there is no up side to make a straight up porn game for them. It could only do damage to their brands and would you even want to play a $70 porn game by any triple A company. Some scenes may get more spicy but no fully adult game will be released. The triple A space only exists because they seek to make games that appeal to the widest possible audience and even if somehow one of them decided to make an adult game it would be the most bland milquetoast experience.

 

[perveldia]

If you mean western companies like Ubisoft, EA, Rockstar, or other companies like them because fuck no that's never gonna happen because there is no up side to make a straight up porn game for them. It could only do damage to their brands and would you even want to play a $70 porn game by any triple A company. Some scenes may get more spicy but no fully adult game will be released. The triple A space only exists because they seek to make games that appeal to the widest possible audience and even if somehow one of them decided to make an adult game it would be the most bland milquetoast experience.

Supporters of western porn games tend to invest similar or more money over the long months of development. I would be more afraid of girls being available only via separate DLCs

 

[MichealIsKing!]

I would be more afraid of girls being available only via separate DLCs

Completely true but lets not pretend that eastern devs aren't equally guilty of this. They just operate mostly through gatcha which I personally find way worse but its a matter of opinion.

 

[perveldia]

Completely true but lets not pretend that eastern devs aren't equally guilty of this. They just operate mostly through gatcha which I personally find way worse but its a matter of opinion.

Learned something new today. I have 0 experience with indie eastern porn games.

 

[Republican Bear]

There are a couple of larger budget porn games on Steam, but sorry to say nope there will never be an X-Rated Triple A game.

The backlash and negative press by journos wouldn't be worth the lost profits. Look at the flak CDPR gets for the Witcher games.

 

[User_102756]

As cool as it would be to see the potential that a porn game could truly have with a triple a budget, it will never happen.

 

[User_111574]

Continue to enjoy your dreams. There are no such games and there won't be. At best there will be a possibility to create some kind of mods for such games, but no more than that. Adult games are a rather marginal corner of the big gaming world, you should take that into account too.

 

[Deleted member 112299]

I think there are a couple of AAA games already. I wish right turnaround will affect more countries and more people will have ability to make these games legally

 

[goregames]

I'd consider Being A DIK and Summer's Gone to be AAA games... but that's an entirely different thing, like others here, AAA games are done by companies with huge budgets such as; Rockstar Games, Nintendo, Ubisoft etc.

 

[roflamao]

Unless porn get banned/nerfed in the US by the zealots, one of the big producers will eventually try to make one is my guess. But they would probably ruin it by trying to make a pay to win mmo, and then nobody gonna try again for a decade or two..

 

[Clint Bobski]

Unless the super religious types go down the self-loathing pit even deeper I think eventually there's a slim chance. But likely not unless a company finds a way to paywall and monetize so effectively it makes the most aggressive live service game look fair.
Ew. A live service adult game...

 

[MattShizzle]

One way would be if a bigger PORN company hired programmers, etc to do such a thing.

 

[perikolui]

hello,
Hopefully, I think they would be very successful and really many, many people willing to pay for them.

 

[dereguedeixe]

Problably its just too expensive. The trouble to make it happen would be huge and we dont even know what a AAA porn game is like

 

[TittyCommittee]

Not going to happen the way you think, There are tripple AAA porn games are already(sort of)(example is games from nutuaku) but they take benefit of your desperation rather than being a genuine porn game.

 

[Annonx]

maybe AAA porn games already exist, but they don't have the same standards as “mainstream” games. What I'm saying is that, for me, porn games are a world apart, and that you have to compare porn games with each other and not with Assassin's Creed or GTA...

 

[Trevana]

High revenue doesn't always mean high profit. Triple A games can cost tens of millions of dollars to produce and usually have hundreds or thousands of people on their teams. If you can make a porn game that turns a profit without all that, there's not much incentive to take on all that extra time and cost (aka all that risk if it doesn't pay off).