| Booyah said: I bet if this next gen is what a lot of people are expecting it to be, then more game developers are going to have lots of layoffs. |
Yeah these analyists only see the market size and the outstanding sucess of a few stand out developers. They also probally look at the bloating budgets of current games and see that it is leading to a dead end where only the richest developers survive and the rest close down. The answer lays somewhere in the middle, and for platform holders like Nintendo and Sony releasing their games on other platforms endanger their vested intrest in that market (3DS/Vita). Microsoft can go release smaller games for mobile and PC because they have a vest instrest in those platforms doing well. So it sort of a doomed if you do, doomed if you don't propsistion. But there should be a balance to it and that is the trouble. I can probally see down the line NIntendo doing something simular to what Sony is attempting with the mobile market and linking the Playstation brand to certin cell phone.
The mobile market is fickel, and the way the market is set up it is not sustainable. Not to mention the market is saturated because of the platform holder a little-to-no interest in policing their platform for games unless in endangers them financially.
