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Razor Blade Games?

Posted by michael on from the not-in-speakeasy's-case-certainly dept.

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?"

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  1. More America-centric nonsense by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    God Bless America

    God Bless America, with the worst crime levels in the first world
    God Bless America, where "democracy" means a rich, white male as Presiden t
    God Bless America, the biggest consumer of the world's natural resources
    God Bless America, where "freedom of speech" means race-hate groups like KKK
    God Bless America, and its massive and ever-growing poverty gap
    God Bless America, with the highest obesity levels in the developed world
    God Bless America, all its appalling "sitcoms" with no grasp of irony
    God Bless America, because corporations should be allowed to run amok
    God Bless America, wasting billions to attack foreign countries

    God Bless America, and thank God I don't have to live there.

    1. Re:More America-centric nonsense by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Amen, brotha!!

    2. Re:More America-centric nonsense by mczeke · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      God Bless America, with the worst crime levels in the first world -- Buy a gun, feel safer (we allow that in this country)
      God Bless America, where "democracy" means a rich, white male as President -- Yep!
      God Bless America, the biggest consumer of the world's natural resources -- If you got it flaunt it
      God Bless America, where "freedom of speech" means race-hate groups like KKK -- We even allow you to express your tired "I hate America" nonsense
      God Bless America, and its massive and ever-growing poverty gap -- Yep, still not communist since 1776
      God Bless America, with the highest obesity levels in the developed world -- We like to eat, and sit around, sorry that offends.
      God Bless America, all its appalling "sitcoms" with no grasp of irony -- Is this a read problem?
      God Bless America, because corporations should be allowed to run amok -- Again, not communist, going to have these problems.
      God Bless America, wasting billions to attack foreign countries -- Allowing your sons to live while we protect your whining foreign ass with american lives.

      God Bless America, and thank God I don't have to live there. -- I thank god you don't have to live here either!

      heh

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      Greetings Starfighter. You have been recruited by the Star League...
  2. Yes by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    n/t

  3. Barry Bonds and video games by BarryBondsTroll · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Barry Bonds likes to play video games. I heard his favorite one is Halo for the X-Box. I bet he could kick Sammy Sosa's ass in it, too.

    1. Re:Barry Bonds and video games by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
      Barry Bonds is a fucking nigger!!! Didn't you see? He's black and eats fried chicken - I want to beat the shit out of him. How dare he disrespect the great Babe Ruth?! HOW DARE HE! That fucking nigger, that filthy fucking nigger...nigger nigger nigger nigger. HOW DARE HE?!?!

      You may also want to note that Sammy Sosa is also a fucking nigger.

      By the way, this "BarryBondsTroll" is the lamest troll I have ever seen. Is your plan to post in articles and relate everything to Barry Bonds? You think that's going to get anyone to reply to you? I mean, honestly, most Slashbots have no interest in sports whatsoever due to the fact that they are virgins and will not even know who Barry Bonds is. I'll tell you what, try again. You might be able the get the 7000000 UID!

  4. Re:Movie industry parallel by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Its just that independent films are always about gay cowboy(neal)s eating pudding.

    Noone wants to play a game about gay cowboys eating pudding.

  5. morons cyphering fine&shill damages resulting. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    from greed/fear/MiSinformation based georgewellian fuddite southern baptist freemason corepirate nazi ?pr? ?firm? generated stock markup FraUD execrable/the walking dead.

    it's no game, & preseNTs a dark (nearly black) looking future for MOST of US.

    pay attention.