When two must fight over one And both are similar to one another, They must evolve. If one becomes successful, The other must find a way to win, Or find another to pursue. What are developers making?
A Tale of Two Consoles
[1] Circles. Circles everywhere. But not a drop to drink. Circles: Dev by Genre Color: Genre Size: Number titles of Dev in Genre Sort: Most Titles in Genre (inner–outer) Source: VGChartzWhen a game is developed, developers try to keep in mind the audience that they are trying to reach. What the above [1] shows is where their focus is being put with many games opting to stay in the traditionally popular categories of Action and Sports, with fewer and fewer developers focusing on genres that typically swing towards one series in particular. Fighting games have their Street Fighters taking up the majority of its audience, Gran Turismo taking up the Racing genre, etc… But what’s important is to focus on the differences between the consoles, in particular the PS3 and the Xbox 360 since we already focus on the Wii last time and the conclusion was that it was a gimmick machine that printed money for Nintendo and Ubisoft, but rarely for any other developer. LINK
This is not a tale of triumph, one of mischief or of woe. It is a tale of rivals, finding a crowd for which they’d know.
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