| -CraZed- said: Distraction? Sure okay, as games in themselves are distractions. Sure they have an effect but in a positive way. They are allowing Sony's studios to take their time in developing their games while giving players games to play in the meantime. This ensures that the developers aren't under the gun the whole development cycle and helps us get better games. Your leap towards Sony abandoning AAA titles is based on nothing but conjecture and is just wrong. The influx of indie games is better for the industry and better for those who actually like to play games. |
They aren't allowing for anything, they are just distracting you from the fact that current gen consoles (at this point X1 and PS4 are no different) have next to no games on them because development time with the new architecture (x86, go go) to get super graphics is a massive black hole on time and resources. The time would have been the same one way or the other when consoles started to get into an arms race with PCs, that they lost before even started, and indies have always existed. They mask this fact by saying and doing as Sony has done: go play our vast indie line of mostly trash to mediocre piddlespit that we have prepared for you because there's muck all else to play.
You can do the same thing with Steam for less while getting more if indies were even remotely a market of interest for anyone who buys consoles. People buy consoles for AAA games (or at least they used to), we have PCs and streaming technology/laptops to play shitty little 2 hours indie projects. You don't need a 400$ console for that.
AAA development time has skyrocketed while indies get crapped out like eggs from an overstuffed coup.
