Epic: 'If next-gen consoles aren't bleeding edge, Apple will beat them'

[zarx]

scottie said:

zarx said:

scottie said:
Yes, lets all trust Epic games ( a company that not only requires consoles to be technologically advanced to make money, but has also shown its complete inability to understand the gaming market) on what the next consoles should do.

Wait what? 

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.

But they were right about the Wii you can count the number of 3rd party games that broke 1 million in the genres Epic make on one hand. And most of those are COD games the biggest non Nintendo brand in gaming, the others are all parts of major brands as well or had Nintendo advertising. They lost very little by avoiding the wii.

As for wanting consoles to be like the PS3 nothing could be further from the truth. They are some of the biggest MS fanboys arround, you know the one that went for cutting edge tech and massively increased their market share. While also maintaining a developer freindly enviroment and a market that buys the kinds of games they want to make.

Finally they are a tech company founded by two programers of course they care about graphics, and a large section of the audiance cares about graphics as well. And it's not like they are bad game designers I mean after they "perfected" the 3rd person cover system almost everyone copied them, they have one of the best regarded iOS games and their Gears of War games are all multimillion sellers on just one platform the best indicator that they are doing something right. Now you might not like what they do but you cennot argue that they have been successful in a time where many othr 3rd party developers went under or sold out to big publishers Epic have gone from strength to strength buying and starting new studios the world over they are going from strength to strength.

So again if that is what you call screwing up more studios need to start.