WereKitten said:
I'm not cherry picking facts, as I didn't comment specific facts at all actually. I merely offered a different point of view on the issue of platform choice by devs. Having to consider the intellectual investment and its future returns is something that I have to go through all the time when I'm offered to work on a platform I have limited experience with, and the same is true of all the developers among my co-workers and friends. I'm not saying that every time such an evaluation is made the best decision is taken, whatever way you'll use to judge what is best: maybe most of those who didn't choose to work on Wii development will come to regret their choice because of the economic, psychologic, formative outcome. Still, my point was to underline that such evaluation takes place, and that some rational argumentation exists to support the choices of - say - porting some infrastructure and working on Unreal engine or ID's tech 5 on iOS devices on one extreme and the 360/PS3/PC on the other. You can continue to tag everything you dissent with as malice or stupidity, if you want. I simply highly doubt that judgmental, sentimental assessment is really useful to understand what goes on. |
I agree with your earlier posting and based on what other developers have said to me privately it does fall into line with a lot of other peoples thinking in the industry. The common argument is that 'its obvious, why aren't they doing it' which in my opinion doesn't quite cut it when the reverse of that argument is the very valid 'if it was so obvious from their perspective they would have done it already'. Now im obviously not going to discount some stupidity, experimentation or malice but the whole truth cannot be constructed from those explanations.
By the way, do you live within 1.5 miles of your mother? I hear thats the Italian mother to son distance average. 
Tease.
