In an exclusive interview with 360 magazine, Mark Morris, MD of Darwinia developer Introversion, has waxed lyrical about the importance of Digital Distribution.
Chris Delay and Mark Morris of Introversion Software talk about Prison Architect, babies and where Darwinia went wrong.
After nearly a decade of living, breathing and sleeping Darwinia, indie studio Introversion gave it a send-off in style: they created Darwinian torture porn. But Darwinia will be sorely missed - and here is why.
Mark Morris – the business mind behind Introversion – has declared at GDC that he doesnt believe the team would ever work alongside industrial giant Microsoft in the future.
"but they don’t back it up with sales.”
So, I guess the 360 audience has something to do with the low sales..
Even though ms offered promotions and deal of the week discount for the games, I don't see how Introversion can blame ms for not being able to back it up with sales..
Seriously... who the f*** are these guys, and why are they blaming MS for sh*tty sales for their sh*tty games???
I don't see how MS making you work for better production value is bad
this just sounds like someone with sour grapes because their game didn't sell
Not surprised to see an article like this in an Xbox magazine, since Microsoft has been preaching "DD is teh FUTURE" about 5 seconds after support for HD-DVD was dropped. But I have yet to see the proof. Many of the factors involving DD "saving the industry" have nothing to do with the video game industry itself, but rather with peripheral industries upon which the video game industry relies.
A few examples:
- faster internet speeds
- more reliable server capacities
- larger/cheaper/faster hard drives
- a shift in the consumer mindset (physical media vs virtual media)
Until then, Introversion is just blowing smoke. As if the console industry needed to be saved in the first place...
I think as soon as they get all that Gamestop business out of the way, and the industry makes a bit more from used sales, it'll be fine. NOt that there's a whole lot wrong anyway.
If I'm paying upwards of $50.00 I expect it to be tangible. No way am I dishing out that much money per game, and have to abide by a company's BS policy if I ever lose my proof of purchase/account expiry or something ridiculous like that.
I want it in my hand, I'll always want my games in my hands. Discs aren't that big. DD for backup copies would be ok though. Eliminating the boxed format is a bad choice though unless games drop DRASTICALLY in price, and online remains free.
it doesn't need saving. it is thriving. i do enjoy not having to get up when i want to play 1943 after playing something else but i am just lazy.
there is no getting out of it though, it is the future. they don't like losing so much money on second hand sales. soon there will be no choice, and i for one will not stop playing games because of it even though i disagree with it.