Cinemablend.com writes. "You're probably already misconstrued regarding the aim of this article. But let me key you in on a very obvious fact: The video game industry would've died real fast, if the PlayStation 3 pocketed the majority of third-party developers, exclusively. That's why the Xbox 360 is the perfect savior for what could have been a disastrous "next-generation".
Marks of the video game industry know flat-out that third-party exclusivity is a surefire way to differentiate one platform from the next. Said exclusivity really reached a peak during the Xbox/Gamecube/PS2 era with games and series like The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape From Butcher Bay, Square's RPG library for the PS2, or THQ's Smackdown Vs. Raw series. But that's back when games – on a financial average – weren't reaching the $10 million mark, with the exception of Halo 2's movie-like budget of $20 million buckaroonies."
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This confirms some points I have been trying to make. Dev. need to make the CASH back. We need to buy the consoles to make their plan to make money back make since. If your user base is too small to support the budget of the game they are almost forced into going multi platform.
The article says Sony needs to sell 5 million consoles in the U.S. buy Nov. for publishers and developers to see a market that support the budget for the titles they are putting together. Sounds strait up to me.
Nice Article.... Its about as obvious as saying The Xbox360 having a 1 year headstart and a lower price tag has managed to sell more consoles than the late and expensive PS3 console. This being said game developers will make more money from 13 million combined owners of both consoles or even 10 million (xbox360 alone) rather than 3 million PS3 owners. BRAVO ...BRAVO....
Who's the author of this.. Captain Obvious I suppose. By a show of votes... Who didnt know Xbox's 1 year jump and being launched in all countries first would give it a larger install base. Also that next-gen games cost way more to dev than last gen games.
I guess the obvious is not so obvious to some people. I think im going to write an article. Title it.
"When you drive your car it burns Gasoline"
You dont realize the real truth,the real truth is that if microsoft would have never created a next-gen console neither would have sony because sony was doing super well with the ps2 so why would they want to kill their cashcow. As a matter of fact the only real reason why new generation consoles are created in the first place is because some threat like competition arises. If monopolies were legal we'd probably still have the atari 2600. Dont forget that at the end of the day video games are just a business like everything else except love and war and i could be wrong about war.
It pays to be cynical sometimes, it makes you smart.
To GaMr
And trust me i'm not [email protected] as a matter of fact im asking you this cause im so [email protected] ,change your avatar, when i want to see porn i go to nude chicks sites (i do it plenty), your avatar is distracting every time i see it , it makes me want to go back to the those sites. (smiles)
reply to 3.7
the genesis already had 3d graphics, very crappy ones but 3d non the less, so sony made them look better with the ps1 big deal, thats what next-gens are supposed to do, make graphics better.
reply to 4.1
gamers getting bored because they see technology improving elsewhere IS competition. So we are in agreement. oh by the way thanks for hitting the plus button although i just realized that i know a way to increase my bubbles myself but i wont reveal it out of respect for the admins of this place.
I thought it was a decent article.
It didnt seem biased towards one or the other, which to be honest is something of a rarity these days!