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[johnsobas]

Ail said:

starcraft said:

Ail said:

starcraft said:

Ail said:
Ok so based on your posting I have a question Starcraft, if the PS3 is so detrimental to those small developers but by some miracle the Xbox360 isn't.

Where are those small developers made games on the 360 that made heaps of money ?

Back up your rhetoric with facts !

"Never mind the damage the console has done to many smaller developers that have been forced to succumb to acquisitions. To a smaller extent, the Xbox 360 has been guilty of that same sin, though it mitigates it to a large extent through ease of development and ease of cross-development with PC."

Next time read my posts more comprehensively if you wish to pass comment on them.

 

I did.

So what are your examples of development costs mitigated by cross-developement with PC that led to successfull small developers success on the 360 ?

Looks to me like your whole post is just opinion based and you don't have anything to back the fact that you do not put the 360 in the same bucket as the PS3.

http://www.i4u.com/article5975.html

Theres one. They are all over the place, feel free to Google them. Thats the first one I found looking down a list.

Its funny. MikeB offered no evidence to support his claims, which were extremely unreasonable and outlandish, and yet they go unquestioned from you. Do you really think its appropriate for you to be accusing me of bias?

 

I ask for an example of a small developer successfull on 360 thanks to cross PC-development. you give me a link to a developer that failed on PS3.

Answer the question much will you ?

 

You pick on MikeB but you are not much better. About everyone this gen puts development on the PS3 and the 360 in the same league yet you go to great lenght to explain us how it is different on the 360 and PS3 is the only villain.

Besides lets be honest, gaming market grew as a whole this gen. Did some small developers shut their door, sure ?

But overall the market grew.

Do you go on strike each time a Wall Mart opens and small grocerie store closes ? I bet nope...

It's the same thing in every industry so I really fail to understand why small developers are so special but small grocerie stores, small car makers and so on are different...

As long as the overall market grows, we win...

Now if your whole post was a rant about the evil of capitalism and how progress kills small companies maybe I could understand, but is that your goal ? And if it is, seeing how you are one of the biggest supporter of Microsoft, one of the pillar of capitalism, I find your posts rather ironic.........

 

 

I kind of agree with the main point as both 360 and PS3 are contributing to that problem, but to say that we don't need small companies is not right.  We need the small budget games along with the large ones, and downloadable games is a step in the right direction, but it's not good enough. 

What do small grocery stores sell the customers that big ones don't?  I can name all kinds of reasons why low budget games are good.  Video games is moving towards hollywood, you know the one where they have absolutely no creativity anymore.  The one where people don't want to take risks anymore.