3DS Tribe analyses the costs of 3DS development kits and what they mean in the grand scheme of things - especially in terms of indie developers who develop on the Xbox 360, iPhone, Windows Phone 7 and other competing platforms to the 3DS.
3DS Tribe writes:
"A leaked report given to Planet 3DS has revealed how much it is costing developers to make games for the 3DS – and it’s not as expensive as you might think."
The saga of the legal battle that sees Epic Games fight Apple in the attempt to bring Fortnite back to iOS has just gained another chapter.
Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney notes that the mobile gaming industry is "largely broken," and blames the 30% tax levied by Apple and Google.
Man has been saying this for ages and knows full well the only thing he wants is more money at Apple and Google's expense and absolutely none of this will result in lower prices for the consumer.
He expects the digital equivalent of opening up his own store inside of a Walmart or Target. It's absurd.
And he feels absolutely entitled to it, in a too-big-to-fail sense - because Unreal Engine is used by so many developers, banning Epic would hurt those developers relying on their tech, which would be super unfair to the developers.
Thank goodness you are there to defend the small guys Google and Apple. You're so brave, Christopher!
Yeah, I'm totally defending Apple and Google and not explaining how another company is just as greedy. That's the big takeaway from my comment, Apple and Google good, only Epic bad. Yup. I totally didn't make it about the fact that this man just wants more money and isn't doing it for the consumers. Nope. Not that at all. I'm just praising up Big Tech. They're my one and only love in life. Please recognize me Big Tech Senpai!
The epic games store charges a 12% tax and has been losing money for 5 years...that sounds dysfunctional.
It's a play to attempt to win over the market so they can then realign pricing with what Steam has in the long run. The problem is they are doing only that and not actually building a better software supported platform on PC. Essentially, they're throwing money at the problem, not actually trying to compete by providing better service.
Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney revealed that they have spent $1 billion fighting Apple and Google but adds it's a "smam price" to pay for freedom.
Fortnite on the Google Play Store would've generated over $1 billion in percentage fees for Google. Smart move.
I buy most my pc games through epic now. Don’t get me wrong I love steam and steam has had a lot of my money for the work they put into the platform. But i like what Epic are fighting for and they’ve been open about it from the very beginning. I wish they would sort out their verify/repair files option for when you format your drives. The whole rename/redownload hack is an absolutely awful archaic solution.
They've been open about how they so openly violate the terms of the platforms they distribute on.
They spent over a billion on legal battles, and also had significant layoffs. Maybe they should cater to their employees first before forcing governments to add more regulations for industries governments just do not understand. The EU DMA - Apple's policies and lawyers have made a mockery of it every step of the way.
And back when they openly and proudly violated Apple's policies, they tried using Fortnite to coerce its players (including children) to rally against Apple's 30% fee.
Which is the same 30% fee console makers apply, but Epic has no problem with that! Epic isn't fighting for you, they're fighting for themselves and don't mind siphoning the money they get from Unreal, even if it results in layoffs.
First of all you’re wrong, but second of all you clearly don’t know an awful lot about what you’re talking about.
Epic proudly violated Apple's terms by introducing their own payment option in Fortnite. Fact. That's literally what started this. Epic then went on to put banners in Fortnite as a not-so-subtle call-to-arms against Apple.
Epic also violated console terms by enabling cross-platform play in Fortnite. Fact.
Epic cut 800 jobs a year ago. Fact.
Epic sucks, their engine is too big for them to fail and they know it, so they're using that to subsidize their legal battles against Apple and their attempts to rally international governments into creating regulations based on what *they* want.
Epics launcher is a piece of crap compared to steams. In fact every launcher so far is crap compared to it. The only reason epic has any traction is they literally give away games in order to drive a user base.
Another shit article from someone who has no idea what people want. We dont want ios shovelware which is basically all there is on that platform compared to ds/psp games.
And the 3ds is basically a portable gamecube with development costs appropriate for the system
Before you bash the 3ds wait till the ngp comes out and see how those development costs are before waving your ugly wrong finger.
ios is a gaming afterthought...........the fact that these fake game analysts think they matter when they dont is hilarious. Sege vp just said they didnt. Id believe him over this article writer
If you want to develop a game that is good enough to sell to the mass market and your business plan can't justify $4500 for a development environment you probably ought to just play games other people write instead of trying to write your own. You aren't ready for prime time.
A good software engineer in this country makes $80K - $150K a year. The development environment wouldn't have to save too many engineering hours to be worth the money.
Development costs for handhelds are still at a reasonable price. IDK what development costs of NGP is.
It isn't exactly breaking in development costs but hopefully the costs are high enough to keep shovelware devs away.
I doubt it though.