The Tuesday letters page is happy with Xbox still being the Shooter Box, as a reader asks what a modern day video game crash would look like. To join in with the discussions yourself email [email protected].
uk Xbox family What can you say about the Xbox Games Showcase other than Microsoft have gone from not a lot of games to a showcase where we got either an Xbox Game Studios, Activision, Blizzard , or Bethesda title screen around 17 times! Sure, some of it’s just DLC, and a lot was updates on previously announced games, but I don’t know when else I’ve ever seen that many games from one publisher. A decent percentage of that 17 also had dates before the end of next year. Microsoft seem to have sailed right past having a decent number of first party games, into a new territory where the worst part of the show was that relatively big and decent titles now need to be relegated to those middle slots that used to be full of third party stuff.
Tim Inside story I know that the rising costs of game development and what the industry is doing (or not doing) about it is a hot topic for you at the moment so I thought you might be interested in this post from a guy who used to work for Square Enix . It is a very informative and very illuminating breakdown of how we’re in this situation, alongside some very sound suggestions for the various directions available to companies – specifically the larger AAA focussed development studios. It even reveals the logic behind Square Enix.
