Spector - Nintendo games are 'some of the best in the wor...

[gtt]

@gtt

Sony uses openGL iirc.

And even though they are likely too be similar we don't really know anything. Microsoft has more room than Sony to build a powerful console and its been rumored the next box will come in two amuse. One a proper console and the other one a Romulus with xbla.

Generally when talking about DX, people mean the feature set, not the exact api. I'm still gonna bet that the ps4 and 720 will be about the same box. I imagine that they will use a hex-core powerpc chip, 2-4GB ram, and a Southern Islands family GPU.

I would be shocked, honestly shocked if they are very much different from each other, hardware wise.

[Chosenoneknuckles]

@kdognumba1 This.

Heck. Xenoblade and Lost Odyssey shovel all over FFXIII for me, personally!

[big fat turtle]

see this is what i expect of next gen a lot of developers are not even aware of the money sink hole they are going in

[Koopzilla]

Spector kind of scares me. He works in the video game industry, and knows what he's talking about. It's just unnatural.

[MrGameBoy]

I'm surprised few developers have this ideology... I'm guessing developers are too obsessed with graphical fidelity and high production costs to care?

@BrandonD
Glad to see I'm not the only one who thought Spector's math skills could use some work...

[totoro1991]

@BrandonD

I noticed that too when I first read this post. Something just didn't feel right about his numbers; however, with current trends of software sells on the HD platforms and if developers actually did make the full $60 on games, they'd need to sell 3.33 million copies just to break even. Only five games on the PS3 fulfill that requirement, but developers don't make the full $60 so it would take more than 3.33 million. Thankfully, costs haven't pushed that threshold yet, but I see the concern.

[KHRZ]

We can't charge $150 for a game. And when the best-selling game of all time has sold only 20 million copies, at $60, do the math! If you're spending $200 million on a game and you're making $60 on 20 million copies sold, oh wait, you're losing money if you're the best-selling game of all time basically, right?

$60*20 000 000 = $1 200 000 000... problem?

[gtt]

We can't charge $150 for a game. And when the best-selling game of all time has sold only 20 million copies, at $60, do the math! If you're spending $200 million on a game and you're making $60 on 20 million copies sold, oh wait, you're losing money if you're the best-selling game of all time basically, right?

$60*20 000 000 = $1 200 000 000... problem?

that's retail cost. so lets do math! publishers get something like 18$ per copy sold to retailers(using a general 30% figure). so say a title cost 200million to make, they would need to sell about 11.2 million copies to break even. so at 20 million copies that game still makes money.