What's can potentially kill the industry, hint it's not the Wii

[MaxwellGT2000]

JHawkNH said:
Unfortunetly the Wii has only delayed this problem. As the next generation of consoles hit, development costs will double again, but the market size will not double. These means for companies to stay in business one of two things will have to happen.

1. The price of games will have to go up.
2. Companies will have to find a way to reduce development costs.

What we really need are new tools that will speed up development and reduce the costs. Spicificly, we need new model techniques since this is where alot of time and development costs go.

 

Or better yet build machines with ease of development in mind, lower tech maybe stay the same level as this gen just make a new console with new things and a little more power not double or three times as much like they did this gen, like I stated the advantage of consoles were always that they were NOT close to the tech of PCs which made them very profitable,