| Kresnik said: Heck, I'd rather there were more teams like Milestone making Vita games in the west. One of the things that fascinates me about the Japanese gaming industry is that there are developers like Nihon Falcom/Nippon Ichi/Compile Heart/Gust/Vanillaware/Acquire who can churn out full retail release games that need to sell like 50k copies to break even. Obviously, they prefer more sales and do often make games that go over these budgets; but should they need to, they can keep going indefinitely if they keep selling to their niche. And they haven't switched to digital-only despite it being cheaper, too. In the west, we don't have anyone like this. You pretty much have your AAA studios and your indies. AAA spend big budgets and need millions of physical sales; indies have small budgets and release digitally to moderate expectations. There don't seem to be many companies that target a small niche and just stick to that. Anyway, how this relates to WRC4: Milestone Srl. seem to be doing exactly that. With all their games, actually. These aren't boundary pushing, massive titles because they shouldn't be. Games based on racing licences inevitably are going to have a limited crowd of people interested in them. So they budget accordingly, but still seem to make excellent games. I appreciate that. And I wish there were more western devs who did it. |
We do get a few such games. WRC4, History: Legends of War, Batman: Arkham Origins Blackgate, Tearaway, Football Manager could be examples (I believe Batman wasn't too expensive to develop and will be profitable with its sales). Hopefully big developers set up such small 15-20 people strong teams to give us games that base more on original ideas and being niche than being mainsteam big budget AAA. The burden of making AAA games is on Sony at this point (and Rockstar, they owe Sony a bloody lot, they should release GTAV: San Andreas Stories). For now though, if we got more games like Blackgate, Tearaway and Legends of War, I'd be happy. Let's hope WB continue with this strategy of making companion games to their home console games on handhelds.
Wii U is a GCN 2 - I called it months before the release!
My Vita to-buy list: The Walking Dead, Persona 4 Golden, Need for Speed: Most Wanted, TearAway, Ys: Memories of Celceta, Muramasa: The Demon Blade, History: Legends of War, FIFA 13, Final Fantasy HD X, X-2, Worms Revolution Extreme, The Amazing Spiderman, Batman: Arkham Origins Blackgate - too many no-gaemz :/
My consoles: PS2 Slim, PS3 Slim 320 GB, PSV 32 GB, Wii, DSi.
