It's contrition week at Kotaku Tower! First Ubisoft apologised for their rubbish Wii launch games, now Activision are trying to make amends for grabbing the Gamecube and taking a big, third-party shit on it. Following the announcement of their financial results, Activision boss Robert Kotick, realising that Nintendo might actually make his boys some money, has changed his tune.
[GameCube] really became a non-strategic platform for us, and most of our development effort was focused on straight ports at low costs to leverage our franchises....
New report from Skillsearch found that 22% of those surveyed had been laid off within the past 12 months.
It's a step forward for Stop Killing Games.
The Callisto Protocol director thinks the solution involves the right people, the right timing, and perhaps a little bit of AI
I don't agree with that. I WISH I could agree with that. But buying habits and customer opinions prove otherwise
We've seen developers in the AAA space try new things and ideas. More often than not, the customers aren't willing to give things a chance, or not enough people buy into the project for it to grow.
Creativity works better in the indie space because the budgets, pressures, and expectations aren't the same.
it's a nice idea and it worked during the PS2/PS3-era when AAA didn't cost hundreds of millions of dollars. smaller budgets and shorter development time left room for more creativity and more risk. a game didn't need to sell 4 million+ copies to break even. things are different now.
This is the guy who bragged about crunching his staff and having them work through the night. Crunch culture has lost more talent and done more damage to the industry than any other factor. Screw him.
You should refund money to anyone that bought S3.
That they are going to ramp up the good software and no more ports for Wii... with a port of Guitar Hero III....