Sony: Expect fewer AAA Games

[theprof00]

BraveNewWorld said:

theprof00 said:

BraveNewWorld said:
Sony can't keep up with the cost of development for a system that was out of date the minute it released?

This post gave me cancer.

Why's that? All three console makers puprosefully made their consoles weaker to cut costs. If a company is struggling to financially support a system -- that they've already designed to be cheaper, then there's a problem.

Software costs are outpacing hardware costs by an unsustainable margin. Expect game prices to rise.

Being "out of date" has no relevancy to anything. The costs of AAA development are heavily weighted towards production values and marketing. Production value is music, voice acting, audio fidelity, art-assets...Power is about being able to produce more computations...more things happening, in a higher res, without slowdown. More power allows more production, and since game devs have to compete with each other, they throw as much production in as the system can allow...but it is inherently up to the devs to decide what their production values are.
They could use low quality midi or high definition london symphony orchestra. The power of the system doesn't decide that.