“people can’t afford new hardware and $80 games. Instead of hiring people who could make a fun game, we fired all the people who could make a flashy, expensive game and then didn’t hire anyone else.”
Edit: On a personal note, this should be viewed as a revival and the ushering-in of a new golden age of games for everyone involved except AAA studios. Indies and tiny passionate studios can spin off of these rotting leviathans, gathering the gold they mistake as flotsam, and do something real.
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“people can’t afford new hardware and $80 games. Instead of hiring people who could make a fun game, we fired all the people who could make a flashy, expensive game and then didn’t hire anyone else.”
Edit: On a personal note, this should be viewed as a revival and the ushering-in of a new golden age of games for everyone involved except AAA studios. Indies and tiny passionate studios can spin off of these rotting leviathans, gathering the gold they mistake as flotsam, and do something real.