| disolitude said: If you can't make a good game without spending 60 million dollars, hope you go out of business. |
I think that is the point the video is making about the videogame industry. The industry has to find other ways to entertain that people will buy, and the costs won't go through the roof. What causes games to get that expensive, is designing games to be like movies, hiring voice actors, using leading edge graphics specs and going for gold plating on everything. The industry fools itself into think that Halo, Call of Duty, etc... are where the money are, so they then feel they need to throw even more money at such products. People can only buy and support so much out there. They need to innovate at much lower costs, and hope to capture the attention of people. If they fail to do this, they will go under. The cost of this may result in people who are captivated by stories and movie-like experiences in their games and demanding it, to end up leaving. BUT, what we do get is games being more games than interactive fiction.
In short, you don't have a lot of AAA stuff, as far as costs go, but you do have alternatives that are less expensive.
