AAA industry on the brink.

[Steve Waltz]

Fixing bugs in game is getting harder and harder to do as technology advances further and further. With that said, it?s either: Release the game on time with a bunch of bugs and fix them later with patches, or hold the game back another +3 months to fix all of the bugs. The second option will costs the publisher tons of money. Players will give negative comments about the long development time, and some potential consumers might lose interest in a game if the development time is too long.

A perfect example: 2K released NBA2K15 at the beginning of October while sports fans are getting hyped up about the start of the basketball season. Lots of sales and lots of money rolling in. The servers were all wonky and there were plenty of bugs floating around in MyCareer and MyGM. If 2K decided to hold back on the release of NBA2K15 until early December to get the servers running functionally and fix all the bugs in MyCareer then there will be a SIGNIFICANT difference in sales because consumers are not as hyped up about the release as they would be in October.

With that said, releasing buggy games and fixing them later is KEEPING the AAA industry from wasting a ton of money and going under.

 

[BeerTent]

The problem is the consumer. If you're waiting for the average consumer to get smarter for their games...

Well...

Yeah, uhh. Don't hold your breath.

 

[Vivi22]

People are always so dramatic. This has been going on for many years and there are no signs we're approaching any sort of crash.

Remember the 83 crash? gaming had never been more popular then it was a sudden act People will only take so much shit.

Gamers are like abused dogs take it for ages then they will eventually bite back.

Seems you don't really know much about what actually caused the 83 crash, and perhaps even less about just how apathetic most gamers are to the actual bad shit that happens in the industry.