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Razor Blade Games?
Oxygen99 writes "There's a story on the BBC News website regarding the financial impact on game developers of the next generation of consoles. The article states that while the cost of producing games increases exponentially as new technology comes online, consumer prices stay approximately the same, leading to an unsustainable financial environment for many small developers. With many small development teams already hurting from the crippling costs of development for the X-Box, GameCube and PlayStation 2, what happens when the X-Box2 or Playstation 3 arrives? Are the days of small scale game development over? Will we ever see a new Jeff Minter? Will the games industry go down the route of the razor manufacturers where consoles are almost given away with the games?"
> For example, rather than producing Hollywood-caliber graphics on a custom basis for each game, perhaps that function is better served by standalone companies that create characters and associated animations that game developers can license for use.
I don't mean to flame, but that is the most absurd idea I have heard in a good while.
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LOTR trilogy (to name just one example)
Yeah talking about sci-fi and fantasy, there are lots of great movies made nowdays! Consider for example the FOTR and the Matrix. Innovation! Creativity! Style! And there is also TTT and the Matrix 2! And it doesn't stop there - there is also ROTK and the Matrix 3! So many good sci-fi/fantasy movies, I am so happy that the movie industry no longer makes crap like Hulk/Core/LXG/T3/etc.
No, thank you. I would rather live without LOTR trilogy on the big screen, but with a wide variety of diverse medium-budget movies.
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Wooohoo! Assembly-line music. Why didn't anyone think of this before?
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