8th generation of consoles

Looks like they launched in the wrong region. Or should have launched with a monster hunter game.
 
TorontRayne said:
What is Nintendo thinking with that Wii U crap? It looks awful. I love Nintendo but holy shit am I unimpressed.
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They were thinking that the iPad is wildly popular and cool so let's have a system that uses and iPad for a controller! Having games use DSes as controllers is a far better idea but neither is good.

.Pixote. said:
I loved Sony at the time they released this little gray box
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The PS2 was far better, it was that little gray box plus MORE. Both systems are loaded with great games and it marked the end of the console Renaissance for me (the NES or SNES was the start).

Kilus said:
Looks like they launched in the wrong region. Or should have launched with a monster hunter game.
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That's because Nintendo offers a solid product that is friendly to third-party developers. If they bothered to woo more third-party developers for their consoles they'd be in a much better place. The N64 was their downfall with the GameCube putting the nails in the coffin, they need to rekindle interest. It wouldn't hurt anything of Nintendo of America went through a reorg.
 
Apparetnly, Steam is also developing what you might call a "console". Sounds more like on of those AlienWare assembled PC's. SteamWare! :D

Also, sorry for forwarding so many megagames stuff.
 
sea said:
TheWesDude said:
isnt the AMD 7 series GPU like 5+ generations ago?
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Pretty much.

Not really a surprise - it's a bit more powerful than an Xbox 360. Frankly I don't care much about graphics at all these days, so long as a game looks clean and is nice and smooth and playable, but... well, there are two outcomes.

The first one is that developers stop making good games for the WiiU and keep giving it awful, awful ports or poor-quality spin-off titles, i.e. same as the Wii is today. The only good games will be made by Nintendo which means that players will be starved for content as has been the case for the last 10+ years.

The second one is that developers will realize that budgets for creating content on the competition's next-gen consoles will be too high to be sustainable, and so will welcome the chance to develop games at "low" budgets of "only" $30-50 million. The WiiU won't be the most graphically impressive out there, but it might have the support of developers who don't have the financial backing to spend $100 million on their games just to make them look like an Unreal Engine 4 tech demo.

Will be interesting to see what happens, because honestly it could go either way at this point.
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How much is the budget for a game like Witcher 1 or Stalker ? I'm curious about the average rpg budget.

Is 3 mil good or bad in the case of wasteland 2? Considering they are using a engine such as Unity the costs should be low, right?
 
I don't think $100 million is right. $30-50 million is probably too much for a modern game, the highest ranking ones go at about $20 million I believe.

For a developer team of 10 people, using pre-made Unity sprites and having already managed to work on the story/background for a year, I think $3 million is more than enough. Remember, they've asked for just 1 in the beginning, meaning if they can deal with that, 3 million is more than enough.
 
Sub-Human said:
I don't think $100 million is right. $30-50 million is probably too much for a modern game, the highest ranking ones go at about $20 million I believe.

For a developer team of 10 people, using pre-made Unity sprites and having already managed to work on the story/background for a year, I think $3 million is more than enough. Remember, they've asked for just 1 in the beginning, meaning if they can deal with that, 3 million is more than enough.
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Found out witcher 1 had a budget of 8-10 mil , no official source through.

I rekon most of the budget money on any new release goes towards the graphics engine?

How much does the average team member make in a AAA or AA title, like the programmer and such?

If you have a 40 people team and pay them each at least 4000$/month with a 2 year development period you will have to spend 3mil + on wages alone. Nevermind buying engine license or developing one, contracting people, equipment , utilities etc.

Are games profitable? I mean is the average game profitable? Aside from AAA titles like Skyrim
 
sea:

i was asking because i recently had to get a new video card, and i ended up getting a nvidia 640.

if wii is going to an amd 7xxx and microsoft is doing a 7660 for their 720, that means when the next generation of consoles starts to get released probably late next year, it will just ensure that i wont have to upgrade my video card for a while.

thanks next-gen consoles that use 5+ year old tech!
 
sea said:
Keep giving it awful, awful ports or poor-quality spin-off titles, i.e. same as the Wii is today.
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Now hey, the Wii does get a lot of awful shovelware, but it also gets some of the most fun gems dug out every once in a while too. Games like MadWorld, the No More Heroes series etc.
 
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