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

[MaxwellGT2000]

konnichiwa said:

MaxwellGT2000 said:

konnichiwa said:
The guys that made Timesplitters also made Haze one of the most dissapointing games this gen; So yes it is their own fault.

 

That was my point... and my point as well is in past gens excellent developers have been able to make a dud, take the loss and keep on going... Haze was Free Radicals dud yet they have to lay off a good bit of their work force and a huge hit in what they have to work with in future titles...

Oh but in the past we also saw companies making excellent games and got bankrupt with probably the best example 'clover studios' guys from Okami.

 Ugh the last 20 years more than 200 video game companies probably got bankrupt and I am pretty sure you can find some who made some great games and got bankrupt after making one dud.  That is nothing new in this industry.

Edit:  Here is a list of all video game companies who don't exist anymore if you love to search you can find some who got bankrupt like Free Radical for just one dud.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Defunct_video_game_companies

 

Clover was funded by Capcom and Capcom decided to disolve them... they didn't go bankrupt... Hell Clover is roughly still together just now as Platinum games with the old director of the Resident Evil series and under SEGA now... a company that will advertise their games like they should be...

And most of that list... those people made MANY MANY duds... 3DO games... please all they did was take advantage of the sports craze of the PS1 putting out subpar game after subpar game and when people finally decided it wasn't worth it to buy trash they died in the middle of last gen, not due to development costs but because they really were a trashy developer.

And no it's nothing new to go out of business cause you made bad games, it's new that so many are losing so much over one game.  People have too much riding on one game this gen over past gens...