Game Development Conditions Could Drive Devs East

Kotaku has up a feature piece looking at the opening of a new studio in mainland China. Staffed by expatriate Western game developers, it represents something that founders Chris Pfeiffer and Max Garber see as a future trend: developing games in the west is soul-crushing. The two participated in the grind to get Resistance: Fall of Man out in time for the PlayStation 3 launch, and have now opened a studio with the goal of 'making great games while living a good life.' Lower costs in China allow for a higher standard of living, while labour laws will force game studios to stick to rational work-weeks. Pfeiffer also suggests that the overwhelming costs involved in making games will force U.S. studios to outsource development work to Asian nations. When that happens, Pfeiffer's studio and compatriots will be ready.

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Oh for goodness sakes! How many more Americans are going to be so US-centric! The world revolves around a central axis not the USA!

"When I read it I thought it meant more jobs are going to be in Felixstowe!"

The East/Far East is a common term for Asia (and other neighbouring territories) that occupy the east section of a standard map (with the USA at the left).

This comes down to a point I find most irritating about Americans, England is not a town in South Dakota; there are other countries besides your own with many different cultures, languages and currencies. When you hear a relative term on an international forum try to open your mind and think outside your little country...