hanafuda said:
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.
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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.
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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... |
Brash, wasn't it? Unless I have Free Radical mixed up with some other studio(s)?
These are just the start of ripple effects - wait until Feb/March, and you'll see the real effects from the subprime crisis flow through to the industry. Everyone is holding out until Xmas is over, and then will re-evaluate projects and studios.
And yeah... thinking this has anything to do with the "PS3" is ridiculous. Its mainly about a shoddy developer, rather than anything else...