richardhutnik said:
What Square Enix is doing IS what the videogame industry is doing. They are increasing production costs to try to out quality others and become huge sales. Idea is to have an immersive experience, and try to match Hollywood with production. Idea is NOT to keep costs now, but see what your marketing types tell you what people want and give it to them. Look around, and who is really doing anything well, Ubisoft and Activision? Not many are. Others seem to be the small, Indie studios who do stuff, and hit it big. Idea is to hope you pull off a videogame version of The Purge. Low dev costs but then it hits and makes a nice profit. |
This is actually what johnlucas has been preaching. Their business models aren't sustainable. The amount of sales these superbuget AAA releases needs in order to make an acceptable profit is ludicrous. If these games are expected to sell in the millions, someone is going to have to tap out and port their games to WiiU. Especially if the Xbone and PS4 isn't selling fast enough. What happens when a single AAA superbudget game tanks like some superbudget AAA hollywood releases sometimes do? The fact that sales on Nintendo 3DS is what keeps SE afloat is nuts. Still they're so far refusing to give Nintendo their full support?
