the2bears said:
jammy2211 said:
I'm thinking that publishers are just sort of going to have to bite the bullet now, and accept this is how it is and get on with it. Keep investing money into the HD systems, keep building engines, middleware, get their franchises selling, get more studio's equipped to make HD games and more employees trained to it. Once it's all set up and ready to go costs will fall, eventually, just got to hope Sony and Microsoft don't keep pushing graphics even further with their next consoles. Can't see that happening.
Of course doing that costs money, which to me is why the model of using DS and Wii games to fund HD projects sort of makes sense. They don't bring in huge streams of revenue but when you're releasing stupid amounts of PetZ and MySims spin offs it soon adds up.
In the short-term it'd make more sense just to invest everything into the Wii and DS where profits are easier, but I guess the inevitability is that HD gaming will be a standard accross all consoles next gen and handhelds are getting more expensive too. IT's better getting yourself prepared for HD developement, and getting it as cheap as possible, while you've still got profit streams from other systems.
I can't really see the industry going else where until Digital Distribution becomes the standard, if that happens, and that's a long way off. I do think this article does push hyperbole at points, but the sentiment is accurate. |
You don't invest in HD systems. You invest in a particular hardware platform. Money put towards either HD box now will only pay out on those platforms, not on some HD platform of the future. Invest the money where you'll make profit, don't do what you suggest here.
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I'm not expert on HD developement but I'd imagine the step up isn't something that will be irellevent in 10 years time even after the next consoles come out. It seems that the experience companies got from developing for the PS2 is being applied to make Wii costs much cheaper, albeit they're cheaper by nature but the point is still the same. It's again in similiar vain to the porting costs of PS3 to 360 and visa versa being much cheaper then one inidvidual game, the assets will all still be the same, just improving them, or whatever.
Once the new systems come out they don't start all over again, unless whatever the PS4 and xbox 720 is something of an astronimical leap that we had this gen, which it isn't. They might need to upgrade engines or whatever but the core HD developement type scheme will be there.
Of course I'm no expert so I'd be happy for anyone to correct me, don't think there are many articles on the internet about this.
