scottie on 14 April 2013
| kitler53 said: what i don't get about the japonese is their lack of self investment in software technology. the japonese seem to make 2 kinds of games now. stuff that looks dated/shovel-ware or high quality games that cost 100M when it should have cost 20M. the games themselves are fine but they really need to scrutinize their business models. |
I'm not so sure about that.
If you make an engine that will look good for 5 years and then need to be scrapped, you can make 5 CoD games using that engine, or just a single Final Fantasy.
Making engines only really makes sense if you are going to pump out a huge quantity of games.
