It all comes down to the manufacturing price, competition and the general demand. The price fluctuates depending on these factors and it makes a fair balance between the power and the price.
I mean, you pay more for a PC, but you have advanced power over the consoles. Where you pay less for a console and you are getting smooth experience, already optimized for the released games on the paltform. While with PC you can customize the game as you want, you pay extra for that exclusive power.
@jackamomo: You're right on that. There are plenty of reskinned rogue games, using the same development tools for generation. It is the same with incremental games on kongregate or the web overall. It is hard to find the needle in a hay stack. When i suggest megaman, i believe they would not reskin anything and make it quite unique. I actually haven't heard about the remake, will look more into that, thank you.
Definitely yes. I have an explanation that we as a player base now through the last 10+ years of gaming have seen a lot of similar game releases.
As more and more people learn how game development works, the importance of how the game is is now put on the designers and the flow of the game, not as much on the systems of the game.
When you have played enough of different variations of the genre, you start to notice the patterns and that every game is somewhat a version of the previous games that gave inspiration.
Some games even look "reskinned" now that i am aware of the development process within an industry... Or i might be starting to get old who knows haha
It's funny that, at the time, most people probably only assumed that we would go up from there, but after this release, arcade racers pretty much plateau'd, with Burnout 3 being the best arcade racer ever made, then the steady decline happened. Pretty sad when you have to look this far back in a genre to find the game that is best within that genre...
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