Joelcool7 said:
You state that as if it were a bad thing. Nintendo's move towards quality control is often credited with ending the collapse of the games industry. Infact the move is credited often with saving the industry and showing that you couldn't just flood the market with crappy games. The Atari, Colleco and Intellivision consoles were flooded with ports and crappy quality games. These games caused a fallout in the industry. Great games would get passed over in a flood of crappy ports and the poor quality games would end up selling decent numbers. However do to the flood of crappy games the consoles began to falter. The solid good games stopped selling sufficient numbers and developers turned to cheaper and smaller teams. Look at what happened with intelivision. The developement teams got split and made smaller and smaller to produce more and more games. This was intended to allow the developers a greater ability to compete. Well today the same thing is happening on the Wii. Developers are cutting budgets and developer sizes to produce more and more Wii/PS2 games as possible. The market once again is getting flooded and well i can say hey I love Nintendo's first party games and the odd third party game. The good games are loosing sales to cheaply made games like CarnivalGames. When developers see cheaply made ports and cheaply developed titles selling well they inturn cut budgets and split teams to produce as many as possible! |
There is a big difference from the big game crash time: retailers. This time they will not get any extra shelf space for shovelware. Just go to any Gamestop and try to find NinjaBread Man, Jenga, Happy Feet, BarnYard. You will see a lot more MP3, MG, SSBB, RE4. Even low budget high quality games like Zack and Wiki and No More Heroes are harder to find. GS knows that they can not profit on used sales with these crappy titles.
For example, let`s say they sell you SSBB for U$ 50 and them rebuy it for U$ 25. They can resell it used for U$ 40-45. If they did the same with Chicken Shoot, they would never resell it used. There is not even enough suckers to buy it new, let alone used for 40 bucks. They would need to price it around 5 dollars to sell. There is not a lot of money to be made in the shovelware business (maybe for the Ninja Bread Man developers).
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