UNITY - Nintendo & Wii U Finish The REVOLUTION

[VitroBahllee]

The Tale of the Benevolent Dad of Nintendo & The Very Naughty Children of Third-Parties
Part II - In Which the Soda Can of Server Offloads is Guzzled and the Fried Rice of Frame Rates is Munched Down

Camped out by the side of the road, the third parties rejoiced at their newfound freedom from their parental patriarch.

"How free I feel, at long last!" cried little Arnie Activision.

"I know! Without that pukey old Pops, I feel like a million bucks!" cried Ernie EA.

"Of course," replied Arnie, "but it'll cost at least seventy times that much to make even a modest AAA game within the parameters we have dictated."

"Ahh!" added Urkel Ubisoft, "but think of the rewards! They will be one HUNDREDfold times greater."

"In-FINITY times greater!" chuckled Sally Square-Enix, and they all agreed and laughed, rubbing their naive hands together.

Meanwhile, back at home, Daddy Nintendo, wearing his bathrobe of back catalog games and drinking a cup of console-crafting coffee, sat down and went over his budget. He saw that he had plenty of room in the ledger to release six times the games that his kids planned on making.

He looked down at his trusty pet dog of development, the Coder Canine, and said knowingly "We can put all our effort into effortless design, and let those youngsters spend all their coin on asset-creation. Meanwhile, we'll reap all the profits!"

The pooch merely looked up at him with a look of adulation and said 'Woof!'

Back at the roadside camp, the third-party kids got back in their cars of computing speed and said "This would be easier with a minivan of middleware! We could get almost anywhere with an easy to use Engine of End-User design!"

They agreed it would be a blessing indeed, and contacted their friend Eugene Unreal to design a tool that would help them make game after mindbending game.

"I can do that," the Engine replied, "but it might come at the cost of individual expression."

"Let 'individual expression' wither on the vine of consumer confidence!" sneered the third party kids.

So it was that the motor of middleware placed the engine of equality in all of the third party kids' lunchboxes.

"Hope it gets you where you need to go!" said Eugine Unreal.

"Oh, don't worry!" said the kids with no small amount of braggadocio, "We're well on our way already."

TO BE CONTINUED