[QUOTE="VendettaRed07"]Yeah totally.. And Its not just that there is five games, its that there has been five games in five years.
Remember when it took a really long time for something to come out? That allowed time for the industry to change and for developers to come up with great new ideas and push things forward. Now that we get stuff every year every big series feels like Madden or FIFA. Yearly updates with a bunch of stuff thats a little different, but its just overall improvement of the same game not an entirely new one.
Because of this games that are 4-5 years old even just from this generation feel anchient and outdated because that same game is just being updated yearly rather than something new given to us to where we remember older releases more fondly for what it did differently than the current releases we are receiving
For example, game like Super Mario World and A Link to the Past are remembered as some of the best games of the 16 bit generation, even though they came out within like the first year that it really started. If that generation operated the same way ours does then Super Mario world 2 and 3 would have come out the next 2-3 years and been just a little bit of an improvement to make the original feel outdated. At the sacrifice of games like Star fox and Yoshis Island being made as well because hey the big series are more important than making new ones
FrozenLiquid
So true. I can understand why Ubisoft is doing it though. I think I posted this in the AC3 hype thread, but Ubisoft spent $1 billion in operating costs last year, and only made $48 million dollars profit. That's a 4% profit margin, and that really sucks for a software company. That's supermarket level profit margins, and supermarkets require you to return every week for their business so it's fine. I dunno how Ubisoft is going to break out of its high budget development strategy. They are cornered, really, because people do buy their games, and risking at a billion dollars over a small profit margin could be fatal. Maybe they can reposition themselves during the next-gen transition.Jeez. I think you just listed a lot of good reasons why it would be stupid next gen for MS and Sony to ramp up console power a crazy amount. If Ubisoft can barely stay afloat like that now, then we'll have nothing left except EA and Activision by the time ps4 and nextbox are through.
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