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richardhutnik on 22 January 2013
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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.

Feel free to make the list 2 or 3 times larger than that.  A concern as a gamer into new things is that the industry reduces itself to Madden and CoD where they establish a brand on the AAA side, and milks it.  If you want new IP, you have to look the indie route.  Of course, with this indie route, you get innovation, but graphics and other aspects of high production value, that are scaled back a lot.

Your comment is a core of a concern I have.  Suddenly the industry gets stale, people get bored, and it collapses under its own weight.  Part of the original post's  reason for being is to ask people if they see that happening and are bothered by it.

Also even if Uncharted is $25 million to make, that is still $25 million.  You are going to have to sell multi-millions of copies to be able to get the needed sales to break even and make a profit.