But Michael Yum of PM Studios sees promise in the potential of the AA market<\/p>\n
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PM Studios has been doing physical game publishing for a long time. In its early days, around 20 years ago, the Las Vegas-based publisher brought the Korean rhythm-action series DJMax to the US, and since then it has carved out a healthy business from slapping a wide range of titles onto discs and cartridges.<\/p>\n
“I’d say we have about a hundred or more games that we back up on the physical side on a yearly basis,” CEO Michael Yum tells GamesIndustry.biz<\/em>, adding that PM Studios does a lot of the physical publishing for various other publishers. “When you sign one of those guys up, you have like 10 games a year from just them alone.”<\/p>\n Michael Yum | Image credit: PM Studios <\/p>\n Down the years, PM Studios has helped many developers release their games in different regions. “I had a lot of friends in Korea who couldn’t release their games,” says Yum, “so I was bringing games from Korea and China over to America and Europe.” And one of those games had an outsized impact \u2013 Black Myth: Wukong.<\/p>\n