Will next gen end up with far less studios and people developing for it?

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Wander_ said:

osed125 said:

Wander_ said:

As the time goes by the development costs will decrease until it affordable for small developers.

If you look at the link on the post above you, you'll realize that's not true.

Do you remember a game by the name Shenmue ? it cost sega 70 million to make it 13 years ago. Now do you think that a game like shenmue now adays would cost that much ? NO. Because development costs decrease every second.

Shenmue was like the Stars Wars: The Old Republic of the time. If you look at the list of games on the thread you will see that all the high budget games come from this gen, with all in the range of $45m+ (and excluding CoD those numbers do not count marketing).