BeatdownBrigade said:
The middleware market is completely fine. Its just developing for PC now. And its not developing for PC because the console graphics arms race is getting too extreme. Its because the arms race is behind on tech. It costs a hell of a lot more money to develop a game to try to look decent on low quality machines than it does to make a game look decent on good machines. Whatever it cost them to develop Zelda they could have done for probably half the cost on a PC and it'd be a better game in the end. |
The costs have very little to do with optimization and much to do with producing high quality assets (by hiring proper artists.) The higher quality the visuals, the higher quality the assets must be. Middleware is successful on PC's because PC gaming has a wide-range of system performance.
