| d2wi said: Also, some of the points the guy makes are kinda... dumb Make sensational title, generate traffic. Story of online news sites. People that don't know gaming are in charge? Miyamoto wanted to go into manga, and has said he barely plays video games, and he's credited as the father of modern gaming. Budgets have gone insane? Very good point. But, that won't lead to a crash. Just polarizing the market, more AAA games and more indie games, and I don't see this as a big deal. Way he's saying it, everything is a rehash and there's no innovation, which is not true. The Last of Us is a brilliant example. It's a AAA title, big company in Naughty Dog, but it's an excellent and refreshing game. He's also saying that games requiring huge budgets makes game developers are a failed game away from bankruptcy. I view that as a positive. In 1983, shit games flooded the market since they were cheap and sold for a high price. Now, it's the opposite, developers need to buckle the fuck down and make sure their game is damn good. Paid off reviewers? Yep, happens all the time. But gamers are still gonna be aware of what games will be good. They're not drones that just listen to IGN or GameSpot unquestioningly. Flying blind? This is just dumb. Consoles come out every few years? Try almost every decade nowadays, The PS4 and Xbox One are much simpler to design more and almost identical graphically, it definitely won't take years to maximize it like this guy is saying. It did take a while for the PS3, but that was the fucking Cell, this is just an AMD GPU. Industry is exploitative? Boo-hoo, all of them are. Basically, all I'm seeing is problems video game industry has, a lot of which are minor. Industry has always had problems though, ever since the NES. |
Damn! 
"The "HD-scare" of the 7th generation is another transition in developer history and has forced smarter solutions (outsourced engine and developer tools being a huge one, as mentioned eariler) and has made investor faith more hard to gain or retain(the primary reason why some companies shut down after a single failure on the market and also a form of publisher control, self-regulation through qualifiers in the corporate structure, unheard of in the 80's industry), and all this has also occurred (as mentioned) in the middle of a financial crisis that you have to go back to the 1929-1935 period to match. The fact that the industry has even made it under these conditions, with entire nations going bankrupt, speaks volumes of their ability to survive."
