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frybread on 16 December 2008

outlawauron replies to claims and evidence with a statement, but doesn't back it up with any evidence whatsoever.  I'm not saying he's wrong - just that this argument style might be a fallacy and I'm going crazy trying to remember the name.

 

I seem to remember my logic class that this is a fallacy, but I can't remember the name.  Even after looking at this:

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fallacies

 

Or maybe it's not a fallacy at all.  

 

 

outlawauron said:

 
BengaBenga said:
While we are in a recession, the game industry is experiencing enotmous growth. I think YoY the total revenue is up 20%.

The HD development model is clearly unsustainable. If an average game will only break even at 1 million copies (let alone see a significant ROI) there's something terribly wrong with the industry.

Sure the Assassins Creeds, Gears and GTA's will earn a nice sum of money, but even something like Prince of Persia looks like it's going to make a loss. Despite it will likely end up selling a million.

Most Japanese devs have focused on DS, are increasing their Wii development and are having less HD games. For some reason Western devs are unwilling or unable to shift their focus to Nintendo's consoles.

You grossly overestimate the cost of HD games.

 

 

 

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http://www.vgchartz.com/forum/thread.php?id=53238&page=1



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MontanaHatchet on 16 December 2008

You thought somewhere in your mind that this thread was a good idea? I guess forums would be pretty barren if people thought before making threads though.

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