| JakDaSnack said: So if Tomb Raider needed 5 million to make even, can you imagine how much a game would cost to make that actually used 7 gb's of ram? It would take hundreds of artists/developers, and likely any of the big company's that actually try to make those games would likely take massive losses because of it. The wiiU may end up getting 3rd party support simply because 3rd party publishers need the extra money to make even. |
Assets are made in very high quality already and are scaled down for the actual game. Infact they will still scale them down for next gen consoles.
Port costs and optimization costs for ancient hardware will go massively down. Now Devs can spent more time with the creation of content.
PS4 was designed to remove as many obstacles for developers as possible. This will make it easy to take advantage of the Hardware and I am pretty sure ìhe 720 too will be easier to develop for. Ports between PS4/720/PC will be cheap. Now devs can take more time to fill 5 -6- 7 GB.
The cost explosion we have seen this gen will not be repeated. Games on consoles are 1080p games we just don't see it but textures already have more detail than we can see for example.
It will get more expensive if games become bigger and have more things to do but simply graphic (higher res, better textures, more polys) will not cost that much more than it does today.
