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Old 2013-04-12, 11:18   Link #31
synaesthetic
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Under what circumstances?

Probably being Japanese.


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Originally Posted by TinyRedLeaf View Post
That's a somewhat silly question. It's like asking why we would want video games to be "mainstream". Video games have come a long way from its earliest days as 8-bit or even text-only products, when only the "nerdiest of the nerdy" would love them. Triple-A titles today rival Hollywood movies in terms of scale, budget and presentation, and have become much more sophisticated products as a result.
Yeah, and that's a serious problem. Video gaming going mainstream and acquiring Hollywood-sized budgets may actually end up killing the entire industry.

http://www.notenoughshaders.com/2012...all-of-gaming/

This article has a hell of a lot of truth to it. The industry is not-so-slowly killing itself. You can't apply a Hollywood paradigm to the game industry--the numbers just aren't there. You can't have a game with a multi-hundred-megabuck budget and expect to do well. You'd have to sell millions of copies just to break even--and selling millions of copies in gaming is... unlikely.
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