It's totally false to assume that the industry is broken. You have to compare apples with apples and oranges with oranges. The PS3 will, yes, require a tremendous amount of money to get your job done but for the Wii it's the opposite size, with a technology that is similar to the Gamecube. Nintendo has made their console perfect for the newcomer in the console industry.
Don't forget that a DS devkit is only 2,000$, which mean that a small company can start on this console with primitive 3D graphics (2k polygons instead of 100k on a ps2) to gain experience and make some cash before moving to something bigger (where they could potentionnaly make more money).
The real problem in my point of view, it's the PS3. The game price will be as high as during the golden years of the SuperNES and no one will take risk (as someone already mentionned). However, with a devcost near the one of the GameCube ("old-gen" budget), it will be a joke for the developers to make games for the Wii.
Following your proposal, every.com that do not generate revenues based on donation or subscription will die. Better say that Google will disapear.
So, how do you start a website? I mean, since it has no content and the webmaster still has fees to pay (domain name + hosting), how his he supposed to survive?
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It's totally false to assume that the industry is broken. You have to compare apples with apples and oranges with oranges. The PS3 will, yes, require a tremendous amount of money to get your job done but for the Wii it's the opposite size, with a technology that is similar to the Gamecube. Nintendo has made their console perfect for the newcomer in the console industry.
Don't forget that a DS devkit is only 2,000$, which mean that a small company can start on this console with primitive 3D graphics (2k polygons instead of 100k on a ps2) to gain experience and make some cash before moving to something bigger (where they could potentionnaly make more money).
The real problem in my point of view, it's the PS3. The game price will be as high as during the golden years of the SuperNES and no one will take risk (as someone already mentionned). However, with a devcost near the one of the GameCube ("old-gen" budget), it will be a joke for the developers to make games for the Wii.
Following your proposal, every .com that do not generate revenues based on donation or subscription will die. Better say that Google will disapear.
So, how do you start a website? I mean, since it has no content and the webmaster still has fees to pay (domain name + hosting), how his he supposed to survive?
That's not important: the whole idea behind Firefox is to create a more secure browser and one that has the latest standards by the W3C.
It can be written Firefox, Mozilla or Speakeasy on it, I don't care - I just want a unique core.