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Forums - Gaming Discussion - Epic expects next-gen dev costs to double

Yonyx on 13 November 2012
RolStoppable said:

I second the notion for more power. Sony and Microsoft have held back gaming with their baby consoles for a such a long time now, only because they wanted to recoup the massive losses they took at the start of the generation. And now we are supposedly getting games that are only twice as expensive to develop than current generation games? This is a step of the magnitude Nintendo would take, so I spit on Epic for their heretic behavior.


Is this post real? With this behavior we'll have a crash in two or three years.



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HoloDust on 13 November 2012

All I can see in that statement is this - Samaritan was hard to make with UE3 engine and tools, so "UE4 is way for you to go, our beloved developer customers". Off course, let's pretend we don't know that other engines already had all the features of UE4 for quite some time now, and that games have been made and released on them.



Marks on 13 November 2012

So once again: more sequels, less risk, less new IP's, less content in games (on the disc), more DLC. Geez I hope it doesn't get so bad we get free-to-play...



ninetailschris on 13 November 2012

Free-to-play games with high budgets can mean pay for anything cool in the game. Bare-bones games forcing you to pay the same amount for less in reality.



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Mummelmann on 13 November 2012

Uhm, why would dev costs double? There's no reason for that, sounds like Epic wanting even more people to lease their engines if you ask me.
There's is no HD jump, no optical drive changes and the hardware follows the multi-core trend and setup already established in the 7th gen.
GPU's and CPU's and RAM has simply become better without changing the core setup (they changed the whole developer paradigm for the 7th gen, this will not happen in the 8th), developing on the kits won't cost more.

Epic; this is a load of crap.