Game Companies Prepare for Next Console War
domanova writes "The BBC has an article up about the difficulties games companies will face in the next round of the console war. I don't play games, and my programming is in a different world, but the last lines of the article struck a cord. "Mr Hasson said games developers were beginning to realise that they had to be more business-like. 'There are still some developers who were involved in games from the bedroom coding days.
Some of them are still making games for peer group approval - that has to stop.'"
"Some of them are still making games for peer group approval - that has to stop."
i realize this is a business guy making the statement, but god...
peer group approval is what gives us the crazy stuff like katamari damacy, warioware, and others. if that stops, we get stuck with nothing but incremental sequels to racing games, sports franchises, and the army men series.
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