27th May 2004, 5:31 PM
Yes it is, but even though they make enough to make bad games still profitable, check the top sellers lists every few months. Aside from a few miracle games that I really don't get how they got there, they are almost totally dominated by great games, or at least stuff that ain't stupid. Nintendo, Square-Enix, Capcom, and Konami games generally go straight to the top. If Blizzard released something, it's there too on the PC lists, though PC games generally don't sell as much for some reason... Anyway, regardless of what one feels about any of those companies, they have a consistant enough best seller presence that they sorta proved themselves as quality.
So it's either make a few games that are good enough that they sell in the millions, or make LOTS and LOTS of sub par games and hope the volume of karp makes up for the lack of individual sales rates.
So it's either make a few games that are good enough that they sell in the millions, or make LOTS and LOTS of sub par games and hope the volume of karp makes up for the lack of individual sales rates.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)