This highllights very well how big the gamble is creating modern AAA titles, PS2 era games were far less expensive to create where todays games need literally hundreds of people pulling together to create them.
As a business you couldn't be too critical of a company no matter how well known looking into the lesser financial gamble and possibly far more lucrative option of mobile gaming.
The future is not all rosy, those criticising the percieved lack of AAA titles this gen are being a little disingenuous to the Developers trying to create them.
The biggest loss isn't Konami, the biggest loss could be the future of AAA gaming
comment by Amigawolf no longer MIA (U18508)
posted 20 hours, 26 minutes ago
This highllights very well how big the gamble is creating modern AAA titles, PS2 era games were far less expensive to create where todays games need literally hundreds of people pulling together to create them.
As a business you couldn't be too critical of a company no matter how well known looking into the lesser financial gamble and possibly far more lucrative option of mobile gaming.
The future is not all rosy, those criticising the percieved lack of AAA titles this gen are being a little disingenuous to the Developers trying to create them.
The biggest loss isn't Konami, the biggest loss could be the future of AAA gaming
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This is all very possible. The AAA games are such massive projects these days that ultimately fewer and fewer companies will have the resources to commit to them.
This may mean that only the big boys are making the games, which will 1) mean less variation, 2) fewer games and 3) longer between them.
Of course it is still possible for lower budget games to come and out be success (see Rocket League recently), and video games do seem to be bigger business than ever... so I wouldn't say that what you're predicting is a foregone conclusion. But certainly something to be mindful of.
As you've said on other threads, I imagine that the next gen of consoles (which may well be VR influenced) will change the landscape again completely.
My only hope is that they don't revert to only making the AAA titles that are already successful. There seems to be a dearth at the moment in new AAA games/franchises and that to me is more of an issue.
We see endless repeats of old franchises on an annual basis and sadly I don't think there will be many more in the future. I can't think of any new games coming out that will really change the gaming world, VR may have an affect but it is far more likely we will see CoD VR.
It seems it will be left to much smaller indie producers and kickstart funding to change this trend. It would be interesting to see though how many kickstart projects actually make it to release, nevermind success.
Another boring PES on the way. PES 2010 was the last decent PES. Konami might as well stop making PES for all I care i'm tired of disappointment after disappointment
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posted on 3/8/15
This highllights very well how big the gamble is creating modern AAA titles, PS2 era games were far less expensive to create where todays games need literally hundreds of people pulling together to create them.
As a business you couldn't be too critical of a company no matter how well known looking into the lesser financial gamble and possibly far more lucrative option of mobile gaming.
The future is not all rosy, those criticising the percieved lack of AAA titles this gen are being a little disingenuous to the Developers trying to create them.
The biggest loss isn't Konami, the biggest loss could be the future of AAA gaming
posted on 4/8/15
comment by Amigawolf no longer MIA (U18508)
posted 20 hours, 26 minutes ago
This highllights very well how big the gamble is creating modern AAA titles, PS2 era games were far less expensive to create where todays games need literally hundreds of people pulling together to create them.
As a business you couldn't be too critical of a company no matter how well known looking into the lesser financial gamble and possibly far more lucrative option of mobile gaming.
The future is not all rosy, those criticising the percieved lack of AAA titles this gen are being a little disingenuous to the Developers trying to create them.
The biggest loss isn't Konami, the biggest loss could be the future of AAA gaming
----------------------------------------------------------------------
This is all very possible. The AAA games are such massive projects these days that ultimately fewer and fewer companies will have the resources to commit to them.
This may mean that only the big boys are making the games, which will 1) mean less variation, 2) fewer games and 3) longer between them.
Of course it is still possible for lower budget games to come and out be success (see Rocket League recently), and video games do seem to be bigger business than ever... so I wouldn't say that what you're predicting is a foregone conclusion. But certainly something to be mindful of.
As you've said on other threads, I imagine that the next gen of consoles (which may well be VR influenced) will change the landscape again completely.
posted on 6/8/15
My only hope is that they don't revert to only making the AAA titles that are already successful. There seems to be a dearth at the moment in new AAA games/franchises and that to me is more of an issue.
We see endless repeats of old franchises on an annual basis and sadly I don't think there will be many more in the future. I can't think of any new games coming out that will really change the gaming world, VR may have an affect but it is far more likely we will see CoD VR.
It seems it will be left to much smaller indie producers and kickstart funding to change this trend. It would be interesting to see though how many kickstart projects actually make it to release, nevermind success.
posted on 7/8/15
Another boring PES on the way. PES 2010 was the last decent PES. Konami might as well stop making PES for all I care i'm tired of disappointment after disappointment
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