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

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Wander_ said:

osed125 said:

Wander_ said:

New technology is expensive  everyone knows that. Even Naughtydog said that they went through hell when they first started to develop for the ps3.

Either way the cost of games are increasing waaaay to fast. Like I said in the post above, Dead Space 3 needs to sell 5m units in order to break even (and that's from a full retail price). 

Also take a look a Kingdoms of Amalur, the game needed to sell 3m units and the game sold 1.51m (according to VGC) let's add 1 more million because of digital sales and possible undertracking. 38 Studios shuts it's doors because of low sales.

So like Otakumegane said in the first post, the "middle" games are going to disappear, it's going to be the big games and the small (indie) games.

So there will only be Call of Duty,Assassins's Creed,Halo,Gran Turismo ? i will officially retire from gaming if that happens.

That won't necessarily happen, it all depends on how developers and publishers are willing to take the risk of high budget games. If all publishers go on the route that every AAA game needs to be like high budget movies then I could see the releases of games becoming far between from each other and possibly only the most popular ones (with some very few exceptions on new IPs). 

If on the other hand publishers and devs take it slowly and not go to the movie type budgets, then next gen could be just like this one, with dev cost staying pretty much the same and luckily more new IPs.