Xoj said:
the thing it's they games are selling pretty well, MGS4 even sold more than MGS3- and both ps3 and 360 are selling beast look at GTA4 and MW2 sales. |
MGS4 barely outsold MGS3, and it likely cost more to produce than MGS1-3 combined. GTA4's undersold all the last gen GTAs and it was also orders of magnitide more costly in terms of production.
Basically, even the biggest franchises are only hitting their series lowpoints from last gen (at best), but their costs have multiplied. That's not really a sustainable industry progression, which is why developers (and even some publishers) seem to be dropping like flies this gen. HD is just too expensive with not enough retrun for most.