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Magnific0 on 18 December 2008
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bigjon said:
Magnific0 said:
I see Bigjon, the solution is: instead of making a crappy game with a big budget for an HD console, make an even crappier game but with less money for the Wii and you **MAY** reap the benefits, at least won't lose much money.

OK. Now, I can't see which part of that benefits the players. More crappy games with no commitment to quality, I don't want that , don't know about you.

If a company wants to stay competitive they've got to work harder, if the can't then it's time for them to consider developing other kinds of games, there's the PSN/Xbox Live Alternative. Look at the healthy Capcom branch of downloadable games, look at all the fine content of indie games on the PSN. If you can't deliver, you just can't so change your business, if that means going the Wii way to put out your trash there, then do it, if it's for the sake of business, it's all about money anyway. I just don't see how that benefits the industry. Even worse, I see that could very well be the path to destruction (going the casual, generic way) the only "Big Crash" of videogames that ever happened to this industry was provoked exactly by that proliference of crappy casual games.

 

 No you are very wrong.

I am willing to bet that with the budget of a crappy hd game, they could make an awsome Wii game. Example, the Conduit, I am willing to bet the budget on that is less than games like Heavenly Sword, Lair and Haze. Now we dont know if the conduit is a good game yet, but I as far as the budget goes, I think I am right (could be wrong, of course)

Then why mention that game in the first place, you're not even sure of what you're talking about. Of course the budget is lower , it doesn't take a genius to figure that out, it seems it did take an extra effort out of you though. Look, bad developers are BAD developers no matter the size of the budget they have. A developer that makes a piece of trash like the latest Alone in the Dark won't suddenly make a miraculous masterpiece if given more money. If given the chance to develop the game for the Wii, they'd make the same , albeit less expensive piece of crap. Also, The Wii is not the only system which games are less expensive to produce than HD consoles, there's also the very succesul portables, and still after 9 years of battle, the Playstation 2.  Not every game in those systems is a masterpiece 'cause is "cheap to produce" and has "widespread appeal userbase" now is it? good developers make great games, bad developers need to refocus or cease to exist. I'm a gamer, and I like that.