| KungKras said: ^ Some will fail, but as I said. Since the companies of today are losing money, is there a better alternative? MS is already leaving the core market to try to get the "casuals" Just look at how they advertise their motion controller. Their new mission is to try and expand gaming, to co-opt Nintendo's disruption. |
Such generalizations won't bring us far. Take Ubisoft... they profit where others lose money, and still what evergreen classics did they make as of lately? Actually I think they are among the more inconsistent publishers when it comes to quality.
The harsh reality is that you can make as much safe money by cheap easy-to-forget shovelware as you can with good long-selling products, which is why posing quality as a business mission statement is probably a misstep. As a gamer I love and applaud those who do polish their games into greatness and really seem to respect and treasure their users like Valve or Blizzard, but let's face it: there's only two of them. I doubt that nobody else tried.
I'm all for putting Gaming before Revenue, but saying that the road to financial safety for everybody is through quality assurance is a self-delusion. Again it's a harsh truth, but some of the best things that ever happened and will happen for Gaming - or Literature, or Cinematography, or Music - are financially unsound and vice-versa.
