How The Industry’s Eating Itself Alive

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elnino334 said:

mike_intellivision said:

PS -- Do major movie studios really care about Indie films?

I would think they do because those movies are typically cheaper to make.  There are many examples of indie films doing alot better in the box office then people anticipated and is usually all profit.  I remember the old dude from the brokeback mountain movie complaining about not getting payed because the director told him it was just an indie movie so he did the film on the cheap.  Boy did that bite him on the ass no pun intended LOL

He was talking about movie industry. It's a lot more than hollywood. Things are a bit different in Europe, that they are in NA. Here the indie films tend to be more common. @Parokki: The cheaper cost for PC comes mainly from lack of licencing fees and not needing a separate dev kits. An up-to-date PC game is just as expensive, as a game for PS360, with the diffence that with consoles you know what kind of hardware will be available when the game is ready, you could say consoles being a "safer bet". The problem in the article was the invenstment before someone is willing to publish the game, so the problem remains with the PC. Sure it's possible to put shovelware on PC as well as console and make the game cheap, but if you can't show certain level of quality, you'll end up having trouble to find a publisher.