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Well they co-developed Infinite Space Nude Maker was lead on that so I don't count it., also sales expectations for a portable game are of course much lower than console games. But sure if you include Infinite Space that sold less (but still lost a lot less money). And again Platinum games has a much better track record that Airtight ever had, they have multi million sellers under their belt. And the reason they are still in business is because publishers keep funding their games, if they had a couple games cancled (Airtight were working on at least two unanounced projects which were presumably cancled after Soul Suspect bombed which is why they are closing up shop) they would probably be in big trouble as well. If Airtight had another publisher willing to fund more projects they would still be in business as well. Which is the main issue here, Airtight weren't good developers all their games were mediocre to poor and sold like shit. They run out of publishers willing to fund projects at a studio that had proven it's self to be incapable of making a well recived game at any budget level, end of story. No one is arguing that Airtight was a well managed studio but their failings have nothing to do with AAA as you are trying to spin it. As we have both pointed out they tried and failed at small budget titles as well as mid tier ones. Making bad games was their problem and that wouldn't change no matter the budgets they delt with.

It should also be noted that Airtight games actually has 50 games to their credit. You see their main business in the early years was outsourced contract work. Dark Void may have been their first internally developed title but they worked on lots of projects before that. Which is how they managed to stay in business as long as they did despite never making a single successful game themselves. But there are plenty of competent studios many of which operate out of much cheaper parts of the world. Dark Void wasn't exactly super ambitious and having Bear McCreary as a composer isn't that impressive, I mean The Angry Videogame Nerd has had him compose things for him, as well as the F2P indie game Moon Breakers. As for not making games for enough platforms the only ones they didn't release games on is Nintendo and even good 3rd party studios haven't managed to crack that nut I doubt it would of helped them. They also worked in diverse genres. Not operating in enoughmarkets was not one of their problems.

As for Nintendo have you looked at their financials lately? Profiting is not something they have been doing lately. Despite releaseing games like Pokemon X/Y that sold over 11 million copies, more than enough to offset 3-4 Wonderful 101 sized bombs easy even after splitting revenue with GameFreak (which they own 50% of so get most of that back).

And just to clarify I agree that keeping budgets under control is a good thing and that publishers should put out more lower budget mid tier titles (like M: SS) we just don't seem to agree that spending too much on games was Airtight's main problem and not the fact that they just didn't make good games. It doesn't matter if your budget is $5m or $500m if you don't make games that people want to play you aren't going to last long.

Anyway wer are arguing circles around simantics, I am O U T out.

Also side note, why the fuck do you format your posts like that? It just makes them harder to read...

Uhh... I don't think the gaming industry is as simple as you make it sound. Just because you make a good product doesn't mean it'll sell. The vice versa is also true. The entertainment business is a very volatile market. 

Also, I was saying that most AAA developers don't have a firm grip on their budgets. That's really what the issue mainly is and what my point is trying to prove.