The survey of attendees of the upcoming conference sheds light on the attitudes of game developers, who have more choices than ever for game platforms. Game developers are key to the success of any platform, from the iPhone to the new generation of consoles, since great games are primary drivers of platform adoption by consumers in this multibillion dollar worldwide market.
About 20 percent of game developers said that for their next game, they will develop for Sony’s PlayStation, compared to 17 percent for the competing Xbox One and just 4 percent for Nintendo’s Wii U. A year ago, support for the new Wii U was already flagging, and this pretty much doomed it. Nintendo recently acknowledged that the Wii U suffering from weak sales.
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Nothing. It's up to the gamers to stop consuming content from companies that they don't agree with.
How do you know if you agree with it or not unless you play it? Which without conventions forces gamers to rely on trailers. Perhaps Demos should be made more frequently. But companies need to do better as well.
But is that not what they have now? Tons of gameplay or are you talking about watching actual gamers play it versus the trailers and streams? The big issue is that some companies pay streamers and influencers and they create content but for me; that is hardly a fair, unbiased, and factual look at a game.
They usually are attached to the money sadly. It would be nice to have gamers in charge but you have so much money invested that business people are needed. Hence the issue; you need people who know business but are also gamers who know have an eye to the community. It sounds simple in theory that if you give gamers quality games that they want to play; money will be made. But that is not always so.
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They're going to favor one thing over the other if it has the potential to make them more money over something else! That's just common sense 101.
So many said the end is coming for consoles with the rise of phones and tablets. With the success of the PS 4 to date one has to wonder if this is making developers rethink.
This guy went on a rant about the Wii U for a paragraph before he got back on track........
its not by much though. The reason why they favor the PS4 is because its easier to work with. This means you have to pay programmers less and you can move to market faster. In the future though as Microsoft rolls out the new SDK, it may be easier for them to and thus the number may even out. Another reason developers my prefer the PS4 is simply due to the larger install base.
geez this is like the 3rd time today this survey story has been posted on here today don't people check before they post things just saying