We've been in this gen for a while now and there have been very few 3rd party exclusives because of rising development costs. Its understandable but what happens next. Sony, Nintendo, and Microsoft will release far more powerful consoles to compete with eachother but won't they screw themselves in the long run. Production costs increased by huge sums between gens and if that happens again then 3rd party devs wont be able to make competitive games and go out of business. Sony, Nintendo, and Microsoft will find exclusives will be very hard to keep (how can you pay to keep ANY dev's exclusive when they can make double with the other 2 systems). These devs will then need to charge $80 a game filled with advertisements and a SINGLE poor game will put the dev into bankruptcy. Games will be rarer to come by and console sales will collapse as people will no longer get what they payed for. The new technology will kill gaming. Discuss...
1) the gaming market is growing, nintendo has created a much larger market and hopefully many will turn into proper gamers. Its already HUGE anyway, much larger than the movie industry money wise.
2) I think were ok, I mean pc gaming is so much more advanced, and yet thats doing fine.
Things may change in the future. I think the future of gaming really lies more in buissnesses making engines to sell to devs, instead of devs making their own engines like in KZ2, as that costs soo much.
hmmm... you make a good point. But the thing to remember is that devs in no way have to fully utilize a consoles potential. In a few gens, the potential for unimaginably massive games with photo-realistic graphics will be there, but devs are free to make their games look only as good as the games from this gen and focus on gameplay instead. So no, technology is not destroying gaming.
They can only create what is feasibly sustainable. The recession has cause the biggest problem, and on top of production costs it means many companies have to close. It's just one of those awful timing things.
hmmm... you make a good point. But the thing to remember is that devs in no way have to fully utilize a consoles potential. In a few gens, the potential for unimaginably massive games with photo-realistic graphics will be there, but devs are free to make their games look only as good as the games from this gen and focus on gameplay instead. So no, technology is not destroying gaming.Head_of_games
Good point. Disgaea 3 is a good example of not using a consoles power, however this is a very niche title in the West.
All they need to do is not get ahead of themselves, the next gen should idealy only start in about 2012 or even as late as 2013 or 2014. the consumer has been hit hard with allot of new tech and the market needs to settle. Coupled with the recession and likely depression in UK ans US markets we really need the games industry not to out innovate its self. Sony did this in 2006 when it get hopes do high ans invested so heavily in the cell. (which turned out to give the same results as the 360 at twice the price). Its now seeing that people WON'T pay over £100 more for something that plays roughly the same games as the competition.
well the ibm based cpus in x360 and ps3 were a bad idea, especially the expense and hard to develop cell. The sad thing about the 3.2ghz ppc cores is they aren't even as powerful as 2ghz pentium 4 per core. Had ms gone with a 3ghz+ pentium 4/d or athlon 3800+ ms would have had such a huge advantage. The lack of out of order code in the ppc core kills their performance, The cell was expencive and not very powerful, a athlon x2 was cheaper on much more game friendly.
i dont understand the point at all. Gaming is technology. If it weren't for tech, games wouldn't have advanced passed tag and hide and seek and no, there was no sweet spot where tech reached a perfect point. It just reached a perfect point in the narrative of your life. The tech now might seem like a bloated version of previous tech, but that is not the case now any more than it was 5 years ago or 15 years ago for that matter.
Solution: Lets forget about "next gen" and stick with current gen. I am NOT paying $80 USD for a 3-hour game, if any developers try to sell me such a game, they can stick it where the sun doesn't shine and I will quit gaming. I care about gameplay length more than graphics. And this is coming from somebody who can play Crysis on high settings only his desktop PC. Trust me, graphics don't mean anything much.
Instead of focusing on new hardware, why not just optmise software to run better on current hardware? Xbox 360 and PS3 still have a long way to go before their full graphics potential is reached. And besides, graphics don't win console wars anymore, take a look at the Wii sales if you need proof. Just make the PS3 and 360 cheaper, then improve Unreal Engine 3 (along with other engines) to make software prodution cheaper as well. Sounds like a better idea.
Technology has and always be here advancing and evolving. I only see this as being a good thing. Why would it be killing something? Just because it's there doesn't mean you have to use it right?
Technology has and always be here advancing and evolving. I only see this as being a good thing. Why would it be killing something? Just because it's there doesn't mean you have to use it right? TechGuru89
I think he is referring to COST... the games industry is run by money. Look at how expensive the PS3 is, look how expensive the games are ($60 for a 5-hour game) etc.
Solution: Lets forget about "next gen" and stick with current gen. I am NOT paying $80 USD for a 3-hour game, if any developers try to sell me such a game, they can stick it where the sun doesn't shine and I will quit gaming. I care about gameplay length more than graphics. And this is coming from somebody who can play Crysis on high settings only his desktop PC. Trust me, graphics don't mean anything much.
Instead of focusing on new hardware, why not just optmise software to run better on current hardware? Xbox 360 and PS3 still have a long way to go before their full graphics potential is reached. And besides, graphics don't win console wars anymore, take a look at the Wii sales if you need proof. Just make the PS3 and 360 cheaper, then improve Unreal Engine 3 (along with other engines) to make software prodution cheaper as well. Sounds like a better idea.PandaBear86
Actually, when you look all the way back, graphics have never won cosole wars.
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