badgenome said:
That's true. It's hard to miss that the developers of both Lair and Haze are supposed to be in trouble. I hadn't heard anything about Silicon Knights, but that would make sense. Agreed that it does bode well for the Wii's third party support, and less so for M$ and -$ony's. |
1st off, LOL at the M$ and -$ony's Are U E to be in the red? Mean, but so true.
I can't blame a developer for wanting to be a private company, but it's really risky, if you don't have several big franchises to keep you going. Making overly amibitous new IP's exclusively for a system that's hard to develop for, wasn't helping, either. I really wanted a new TS4 badly. I didn't even care what systems it did or didn't go to, just as long as it was good. Though, TS4 with mc would have been killer. A new 2nd Sight would have been cool, too.
@StarcraftManiac:
Well, Haze doesn't exactly shout buy me, even if FRD does have some amazing developers. If Ninty did pick them up, they should be carefull which staff members they get and make sure they're better managed. A major problem was that, FRD wasn't big enough to make the games they where trying to produce. Ofcourse, on the Wii and DS that wouldn't be that big of an issue. Still, I think it would be smart to add them to another staff, instead of having them work alone. Retro appears to have a staff void that needs to be filled. Sounds like an opportunity for something phenomenal, to me. Anyways, hopefully the staff will be able to find work soon. It would be even better, if the higher profile programmers at FRD don't get divided up, but I doubt things will work out like that.
