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rocketpig said:
mitsuhide said:
So with that info in mind(Provided by HappySqurriel)how the hell do we keep dev costs down so we dont see devs go the way of SEGA and produce crappy game after crappy game?Well unless we put all our hope in 1st party lineups its hard because FinalFantasy a title that is great every time its released is only released every 2 years maybe 3, same for GTA,MGS,Halo,DragonQuest,Zelda and Metroid(The great franchise)do we just have to wait longer for good/great/epic games and play crappy ones inbetween well thats not good for anyone really.This is why the Wii is good but if it had started of a little slower i.e sold about 5-7million by now then we wouldnt have the mini game compilations and crap ports and so on that are plagueing the Wii at the moment same with the DS if these consoles could have started off just a little slower then gaming dev costs would be down and there would be more worthy of note franchise on these systems(which the DS is slowly fixing)that arent 1stparty.

There's an easy way to keep devs costs down and it's already happening:

Nintendo wins every market.

With the mindset change that is going to need to happen in generation eight, we'll end up seeing less powerful, cheaper machines that will be easy to program for.


I hope not.  And if cost is the major reason for going casual, I'd just as soon buy fewer games that I actually liked.

I'd rather just buy  MGS4 and the newest FF game than 8 or 10 wii games