OL wrote:Not really a fan of photorealism myself anyway, but it's obviously not a dead end.
Two statements I agree with, I only put in the bit about the tech because I've had a pent up rant on that.
OL wrote:Not really a fan of photorealism myself anyway, but it's obviously not a dead end.
AnimeGamer183 wrote:Look at it this way, they have a $1 price range, also consider how inexpensive the development costs for these types of games are. Lets say they sell 10 million in digital sales, ok now they have 10 million dollars, what projects are they gonna throw that kind of cash towards that fit in their gaming demographic? They wont need that much for these types of games. They can either A. make a bunch of these different kinds of low budget games (you could imagine how many they could make with that kind of cash) and flood that demographic or B. use that money to build up and the only option will be to make higher quality games or possibly systems to compete with everyone one else in the long run or C. try to make as much cash as possible while this fad is still popular or D. break even, go under, be moderately successful or in between moderate and very successfull. B is what nintendo is afraid of, them losing market share in the future. Plus these games look like a Full Sail students final project for their freashman year of college, development costs have to be dirt cheap.
The point is, even if they do make a bunch of money off these games, they are eventually in the future going to have make something of higher quality in one way or another, they wish they could be nintendo and they are starting from the ground up just as nintendo did to try to ultimately get in a similar position as the big guys, every game they are doing has been done before in the past, its old technology. The market is expanding, meaning more people are playing different types of games, not taking away from the already established demographics/genres. Only concern I see is that in the future these types of games get progressively more popular but where are they going to go from a technological stand point, that hasnt already been done, when making games this basic? It will be rehash after rehash after rehash. Even that stupid Angry Birds has already been done (shoot objects at targets in 2D oooooohhh). People are just gonna be left wanting more and expanded content, and there is really not a whole lot of room for growth with mechanics/technology thats so old. I dont buy it.
Get them quick dollas while you can son!
OL wrote:Gaming is also much, much bigger now, with far more hardcore fans than it had in 83. Fans who don't mind paying that $40-60 for a new game, and would rather have physical copies than weightless downloads. There are also people who only play the shitty cellphone games as well, but they're just on a different end of the gamer spectrum.
At this point it's nigh impossible for there to be a "crash"; videogames are as big as, if not bigger than, movies.
Just the same as independent film isn't going to shatter the popularity of giant Hollywood productions, $1 piece-of-shit games aren't going to take anything away from the high-gloss, AAA releases.
In 83, it may have been difficult for people to discern between a good game and a shitty one; the tech almost all looked basically the same. Nowadays, it's much easier for people to tell the difference. No one is going to take Angry Bird as an alternative to Mario Galaxy or Call of Duty.
Kind of a ridiculous notion when you really think about it.
OL wrote:In 83, it may have been difficult for people to discern between a good game and a shitty one; the tech almost all looked basically the same. Nowadays, it's much easier for people to tell the difference. No one is going to take Angry Bird as an alternative to Mario Galaxy or Call of Duty.
Kind of a ridiculous notion when you really think about it.
AnimeGamer183 wrote:No way to really tell how they divi up their profit/money, some goes straight into pocket, some goes budget towards whatever X project/marketing/publisher/maintenance etc etc etc. I was just saying if they sell enough copies, there is plenty of money to throw around. All of that was hypothetically speaking anyway.
But as I said, Reggie thinking this is a threat to his company is pretty darn ridiculous, bottom line.
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