hanafuda on 20 December 2008
| shams said: This sounds... "odd". If it was 100% true, we would hear some form of official statement by now. In general, any developer currently making a game for a publisher will *not* go out of business. That is unless: 1/ They have huge debts anyway 2/ The development contract gets canceled (late delivery?) 3/ The publisher(s) in question go out of business. If F5 were "actually" making a Kid Icarus game - and for Nintendo - its very, very unlikely they will close their doors. Unless Ninty pulls the contract. ... Either way, F5 was pretty crap to be honest. I was shocked at the lack of progress in their "flight engine" games from the N64 shooter... all the way up to Lair. I don't know the key figures at the studio, but there must have been some mediocre developers and management in there - maybe backed by a couple of good, technical guys. This is a positive really - the good people will get jobs at other studios, the lamers... can leave the industry forever (hopefully). I was much more disappointed by the demise of Free Radical - basically due to a publisher dying. ... People had better hope that Sony (or EA) *never* pulls out of game dev - if they do, you could see 10+ studios going down in a single week. |
Well put. Which publisher killed Free Radical? I've not been following it...
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