You are living in the past, and yes. They aren't making a billion dollars if they are spending 500million to make it. Angry Birds by comparison wipes the floor with AAA returns.
What BD is saying is not at all out of the question in the next few years. I admit, I am not exactly excited by that change, but on the plus side, the PC is actually a VERY good candidate, however I think mobile is where everything is going to go. Why spend 500 million for 5-6 million customers when you can spend less than a million and make much much more.
The problem is companies are greedy and want to control everything. Is there truly a reason to have a Xbox One vs a PS4 when 95% of the games are exactly the same across them and PC (and figure that the money you save on buying them on PC will outweigh any overage costs for a PC). Most companies don't want to tie themselves to one platform anymore because 5-6 million sales is no longer considered successful (and I have to laugh at that).
In the Nintendo/Sega era, multiplatform games actually had completely different dev teams and outcomes. There was a reason to be biased. That hasn't been the case in awhile and has come to a complete waste of time with this gen. it is as outdated a mindset as the 2 party system.
No mobile game has made a billion in 3 days. That's why it isn't taking over. Again money talks and there is not close to the same money being moved for mobile games.
It's not that hard to see that. PS4 and XB1 setting sales records, games with record sales at release (actual retail sales), record numbers of people buying new IPs. Console gaming is arguably stronger than before with more money being made than before. Even with more expensive hardware and accessories.
Keep in mind the PS4 and XBone will probably be around till 2020 - 2022. If they can't even get 60FPS at 1080P now then yeah, it's a problem.What the heck does 4k TVs have to do with consoles? Even the beefiest PC has a tough time getting playable frame rates at 4k let alone 60fps.
No mobile game has made a billion in 3 days. That's why it isn't taking over. Again money talks and there is not close to the same money being moved for mobile games.
It's not that hard to see that. PS4 and XB1 setting sales records, games with record sales at release (actual retail sales), record numbers of people buying new IPs. Console gaming is arguably stronger than before with more money being made than before. Even with more expensive hardware and accessories.
The problem is companies are greedy and want to control everything. Is there truly a reason to have a Xbox One vs a PS4 when 95% of the games are exactly the same across them and PC (and figure that the money you save on buying them on PC will outweigh any overage costs for a PC). Most companies don't want to tie themselves to one platform anymore because 5-6 million sales is no longer considered successful (and I have to laugh at that).
Keep in mind the PS4 and XBone will probably be around till 2020 - 2022. If they can't even get 60FPS at 1080P now then yeah, it's a problem.
You're letting those few blockbusters and some early hardware sales skew your perspective. Consoles have been declining for years while mobile and PC have been growing. There's no guarantee that trend continues, but there's no guarantee next gen turns things around either.
With each generation, hardware sales go up. Removing outliers like PS2 over it's 10 year or so life which had people buying numerous systems because of a high defective rate (I had to buy 4 of them over the time I owned it).
BD2003, i dont' mean this in an offensive way or anything, but you just seem totally out of touch with the reality of the console gaming market, currently and the past decade or so.
I don't mean this in an offensive way either, but you'd be surprised how much more interesting forums can be when you don't assume everyone else is an idiot. I grew out of that childish attitude years ago, hopefully one day you do too.
not knowing about the industry does not mean you are an idiot. it just means you don't know about it. no one is calling you an idiot.
Past performance is not a guarantee of future success.
please tell me where i can play killer instinct, forza horizon 2, sunset overdrive, halo, hot shots golf, god of war, uncharted, the last of us, resistance fall of man, and ratchet and clank on PC? i'm all ears.
past? this is now....are you even paying attention?
It's the new hardware boom, it's to be expected. Even nintendo had a good first few months with the Wii U. It's a good indication that consoles are sustainable for the foreseeable future but not enough data to predict with confidence that this generation will outsell the last.
Are you actually doing any research or just thinking you know? Console game sales are down 70% this year. You are putting out numbers that pretty much every report about says otherwise. You are right money talks, and if people are only buying 1 game of 100, then the whole concept is not sustainable or you end up with 100 clones of that game. Either way, that's what leads to a crash.
That's the extreme version though. This is all speculation, but your "billion dollar" number is a very narrow scope of the pie.
It's the new hardware boom, it's to be expected. Even nintendo had a good first few months with the Wii U. It's a good indication that consoles are sustainable for the foreseeable future but not enough data to predict with confidence that this generation will outsell the last.
Umm no, the WiiU did not sell like the PS4 and Xbone have so no not comparable at all. Even just the PS4 itself passed WiiU sells in a matter of months.
True, just go to any forum where someone makes a legitimate complaint about some online game and you'll see a bunch of "lol get gud".if anything killed multiplayer it was the multiplayer community
ive never met a more angry group of pissed off asshole dudebros anywhere else
if anything killed multiplayer it was the multiplayer community
ive never met a more angry group of pissed off asshole dudebros anywhere else