The interactive game industry enjoyed a highly successful year, posting record sales, delivering some of the best games ever and attracting many new consumers.
In July, the Interactive Entertainment Association of Australia announced game software and hardware sales had broken through the $1 billion barrier for the first time during the 2006-2007 financial year, with sales for the first half of this year up by 30%.
The Australian launch of PlayStation 3 in March was also a success despite the machine's unprecedented $1000 price, with Sony selling more than 27,000 machines in the opening week - only a few thousand less than Nintendo and Microsoft had sold during the Wii and Xbox 360 launches last year. But PS2, Wii and Nintendo DS were the highest-selling consoles in Australia this year, forcing Sony and Microsoft to cut the price of the PS3 and Xbox 360 consoles during the year and offer free games.
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.
Single tear falls from my eye.