Why don't devs for once say, "We have made a piece of crap let's scrap it."

[The Ghost of RubangB]

kingofwale said:
Well, let's say I'm a developer.

and 85% into the game development, and 1 million dollars in, my team and I realize the game is crap, the camera is garbage, control is boring and it really targets nobody... what will we do?

2 options.
1... gave up and take the 1 million lost?

2... put it on a console that would even sell crappy games and hope it sells by promoting it a lot.



I don't know... option 2 seems like it is favoured by A LOT of crappy developers right now.

 Nice stealth Wii trolling, kingoffail.

Let me fix it.

1) Be like Blizzard or Nintendo and scrap near-complete games because they have a history of quality software they don't want to tarnish, and they can make back their losses with their next quality game.

2) Be like everybody else and dump their shovelware on EVERY CONSOLE EVER MADE because it's too late to go back and they have pissed off shareholders to answer to.

I know you'd like to pretend your system doesn't get shovelware, but that's not possible.  The whole industry is over 90% shovelware, always has been, and always will be.