zarx said:
In terms of sales they are the most successful independent developer of this generation, they made $23 million by selling a $5.99 game on a platform where everyone else was saying that you couldn't be sell a game for more than $0.99. Not to mention the fact that they have the most popular game engine license arround. Because if that is the kind of success that an inability to understand the market brings I got to stop trying to understand things. |
I can't believe you're actually claiming this. They have no idea how to respond to the current gaming market. They will have some successes, sure, because they have a lot of talented people working there. But they are directionless and lost.
"We don't make games for the Wii because we don't see a market for the kinds of games we make – let's be honest,”
This is not the first time they have stated that all a console needs to succeed is to be like the PS3. This is a console that sent a company from 75% market share to 28% in a single generation. If the PS4 is as bleeding edge as the PS3 was, there will not be a PS5. The PS3 only survived because, at the start of its lifetime, even for the first 2 years, all the game developers assumed it would dominate and thus made games for it. Sony was also in a much better financial situation then.
Nintendo aren't making a bleeding edge console, Sony cant. All that leaves is MS making a bleeding edge console, and accepting that all their multiplat games will be made for the PS4+Wii U and ported. How exactly would that help them against Apple?
Epic games cannot understand that people do not care about graphics. They honestly believe that nearly our entire choice is made based on polygon count, instead of gameplay.
