I'm wondering why none of the big games that came out on 2021 so far aren't using Denuvo?

Cyberpunk wouldn’t have drm anyway due to CDPR and GoG.

As for the others, could be they didn’t want to pay for it and/or think they would be cracked relatively soon anyway.

For example, Hitman 3 might have a load of Epic money and Hitman 2 was cracked before release.

 

Denuvo is bullshit DRM

 

It's bullshit because DRM does nothing but drive people to piracy. DRM is anti consumer and hurts legit gamers.

 

because denuvo is about as useful of a drm as cheese is to a car wheel

 

Meanwhile improper implementation of Denuvo result in massive performance loss, the game getting cracked in a mere few hours.
I've seen very few games, properly and correctly implement Denuvo without the performance shitting itself into oblivion. That's why people don't like Denuvo, it's been constantly improperly implemented resulting in retarded performance loss, bugs, and other issues.

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Denuvo has a higher chance of hurting the end consumer (bugs introduced because of Denuvo, massive performance loss) due to it seemingly really easy to not properly implement. And even then, the argument of Piracy doesn't really even work.
Nintendo has a a fuck ton of systems that are vulnerable to a exploit that requires almost not investment to make it work (rcm bug) and quite a few of those units are likely used for piracy. But despite the fact the games get leaked early, and dumped online. they still sell well.

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Also, Denuvo is online only, so if you have a shitty or non functioning internet connection (which there is still a surprising amount of people who don't) then single player games become neigh impossible to play for those people, because of denuvo.

 

Hitman 3 has its own DRM, in that progress is online-only. You can get around that with a 100% save (or rather, could with Hitman 2) but it's still just as effective.

Cyberpunk is a CDPR game, whose parents company owns GoG. You know, the very Anti-DRM service.

Nioh 2 isn't remotely worth the investment, and Koei Tecmo has never used it anyways.

For Yakuza, Sega stopped using Denuvo for quite a few releases so far (Kiwami, for example, didn't use it at all) so it's no big surprise.

And a smaller company like Bloober would never waste money on Denuvo either.


It's not a "coincidence", just none of these games were likely to use it. Denuvo isn't dying, it'll still be around so long as that initial uncracked launch period continues to exist.