Ssyn said:
I agree, I think this gen needs to last longer than the previous; costs are getting way to high and releasing a new box that will easily start off 400+ if not higher, is retarded from a buisness standpoint(consoles = no profit). |
Why would the console have to start off at $400 or higher? There is already hardware on the market which is dramatically more powerful than the PS3/XBox 360 and is fairly affordable; two years of cost reductions on this hardware would certainly make it very inexpensive.
Beyond that, I don't think that development budgets will really get much higher than what we're already seeing on the PS3/XBox 360. The cost with HD game development is primarily due to the cost of creating High quality 3D graphical assets (including modeling, texturing and animating); being that most of the techniques used in creating assets for pre-rendered movies are already being used in games, there is very little extra work that has to be added (using the same techniques and using higher-resolution models and textures does not tend to add too much in development time).
