This man is a genius!
Just look at what he had to say about the development mindset:
"Here is the business strategy I think is appropriate and most profitable for all game companies: make games that sell forever. In other words, make classics"
WOW Malstrom, I can't believe people haven't thought of this yet. Classics are the answer.
Good.
you is dumb.
People try very hard to make classics. People put millions into projects and work eagerly to make classics, but they fail. Sometimes they are simply too good. Look at Ico or SoTC. Look at Uncharted. Look at God of War. Games like these sell minimal compared to what games like Carnival Games makes.
Let's talk about who is driving the shovelware industry. Let's talk about how your whole point is completely backwards, and that it is Nintendo who is, was, making 50$ per console in the US.
Let's talk about how Nintendo doesn't take chances with new IPs. Instead they re-release the same franchises ad-infinitum, and put out easily made OIPs like wii sports and wii music.
Then if you tell them you are bored with their games they tell you, "I don't understand, this is what you wanted", completely disregarding that it's possible to make more than 2 games a year. When you then ask for some of the lesser known franchises, ones which don't have 7 installments, they say "You want that? But you just said you wanted new IPs. You're moving the goal posts around".
Thanks Nintendo, thanks for taking the easiest road. Thanks for telling me that the reason I don't want a wii, is because I'm asking for the impossible....which are somehow possible on both the ps3 and 360. Variety, what a novel concept.
All the dev companies do what they need to get by. Nintendo and Blizzard are no different. While I will agree that Blizzard does make classics, they only release maybe one title per year. If this guy expects every company to only release one game per year, you will completely destroy variety. There are so many problems with your argument that I can't even begin to respond without contributing ANOTHER TL;DR to this thread.(I did actually read the OP)
/rant
sorry if I offended anyone, but this guy is so full of shit that it's literally offensive.
