sethnintendo said:
Same can be said of the app market. Only a few developers have made any decent money on the smartphone markets while a majority of them haven't really made anything. You act like smartphone gaming is god's gift to gamers and developers. |
To indie devs it is.
Look at the most popular iPhone games ... do big companies like EA and Capcom and Activision dominate? No way. It's mostly all little guy companies that are defining that platform. A game like Game Dev Story from a tiny developer can outsell "big gun" iPhone projects like the Dead Space game many times over.
When you have something like Angry Birds which can almost overnight become as well known as almost any other game franchise on the planet and now has merchandise/toys sitting in stores ... when you consider that came from a developer most people never even heard of ... that's unbelievable.
That would be like some nobody picking up a camera and making a movie on a shoe string budget that is watched by as many people as The Avengers or something.
I don't think cell phone gaming is perfect by any means, but to deny that its been a game changer for garage/small developers is simply lying flat out.
I'm not asking for anyone to list 50 new devs born on the Wii/DS ... name two or three big time success stories of indie devs on Wii/DS/3DS. Shouldn't be that hard.
