Riachu on 21 December 2008
| SleepWaking said: You know this actually could mean something good for the industry, give smaller newer developers a change (or at least make a little room for them). I already found the game industry to be a little bit stale, maybe all this will cause new and creative ideas, make the industry a little bit more fresh and exciting again. I'm studying game development and I'm still fairly positive on the outcome of this crisis (if you can call it that already). |
I think that although it seems bad, it might be good for the publishers to suffer the consequences so that they decide to make less games at once. That means the quality of the average game would become higher due to developers paying more attention to polish. The pubishers brought this upon themselves. They are making to many high budget games at once and they are digging themselves in a deep hole. It already seems to have gotten to Factor 5 and Free Radical. However, it's not to late for EA and THQ. This could be good for the industry in the long run as this incident could result in making publsihers to be more careful about how many high budget games they make at once.
