| andrewclear said: Yes, the time and budget constraints to make games for this gen, coupled with the decrease of studios and publishers, are the weakness for all 3 console makers of this gen (maybe with the exception of Nintendo, since the Wii U is slighlty cheaper to develop for). 4 years from now, the ps4 and xbox one will have games, but their wont be as many as their were in the first 4 years of the 360. Developers need to learn to make video games again, and not video art that they seem to like shoveling out each year. |
The wii u is only cheaper to develop for if the game is easily within the capabilities of the console. Return to Castle Wolfenstein took something like 2 weeks to get working on original xbox compared to something like 6-9 months on ps2 because they had to somehow get it working on a less powerful console. Yes perhaps not the best example as PS2 was hard to develop for but the point is if you try to release a technically ambitious game on weak hardware it will clearly take far longer to get working. However if its a simple game then yes its probably far easier and cheaper to develop on wii u.
