AAA games are doomed.

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Pyro as Bill said:

Severance said:

Pyro as Bill said:

Noticably absent is anyone/anything from Nintendo. No games, no quotes, nothing. How strange.

 

so are you saying their being biased against nintendo because no one at nintendo wanted to talk?

Notice how there isn't any japanese developer there either, now what developer that works with nintendo that isn't japanese? , none!

No, I'm saying that we have all these big shots talking about doom yet nobody thought to ask Nintendo's opinion or point out that Nintendo can produce a 20M seller or 3 a year without spending ridiculous sums of money. Nintendo doesn't have to rely on DLC, online multiplayer subscriptions, game subscriptions, used game codes and most of their games are aimed at multiplayer which Pachter claims should be hurting them.

The program explicitly ignores what Nintendo has been saying for the past 5 years (the $ word) and tries to come up with its own explanation. I'm not saying they are biased, I'm saying they deliberately ignore Nintendo because it wouldn't fit their nonsensical theories. Still, they happily blamed Nintendo for the recent industry decline and implied the cartridge model (featuring only Nintendo cartridges) was damaging the industry. Fable, Farmville, Halo and CoD  get a mention but you'd think Wii Sports, Wii Fit and Mario Kart never existed.

Do any of the doom talking devs have a presence on the DS or Wii?

Nintendo aren't saints when it comes to game costs. Nintendos strategy pretty much relies on making a game for $10 million and then spending $50 million on marketing. If you think that every other developer should follows those guidelines, then it'd only make the games worse, but more well known among the general public. That's better for businesses, but it's worse for gamers. 

I'd rather games sell on the merits of their qualities than on the size of their marketing campaigns.  That's not realistic, but it's obviously what a lot of people in the industry have been relying on.