Indie developer calls the indie boom "unsustainable"

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kitler53 said:

superchunk said:
Hasn't Nintendo / Iwata been saying this for a while now? Its obvious. You collectively devalue your product to the point of oblivion. Its primal why Nintendo needs to keep its software to sell its hardware.

between nintendo and mobile,...  who's getting a flood of developer and consumer interest and who is posting losses and is massively down gen over gen?

You're can't lump all mobile as one and compare like that. Unless you wanted to say between dedicated consoles and mobile.

Fact is Nintendo is in a FAR better position than any mobile/indie developer.

Point is that OP is exactly right. Mobile/Indie is not healthy. Sure you have the rare smash hit, but it takes 100's of other games to fail massively before one Angry Birds flies out the roof. That is a very high risk market with far more failure than most anyone realizes as they only recognize the successes.

You say mobile is getting flood of dev / consumer interest, yet most of those devs coming in die off quickly with heavy losses as all their cheap attempts crash.

You say mobile is getting flood of consumer interest, but that comes in flashes as most games are crap. So it really only does anything with that one rare game out of 100s that is a good game and basically goes viral.

There is a reason Sony pulled out and sold off its mobile dev companies. Its the same reason Nintendo keeps saying no.