In a rapidly changing ecosystem where some models are becoming unsustainable, D3T’s Dan Hett argues the industry should move away from silos and grow together.
As an industry, we’re currently caught in a perfect storm of rapidly-evolving technology and the spiraling demands of modern AAA games, with a huge number of developers working for years to meet the level of scale and fidelity audiences have grown to expect.
These sizable undertakings are now routinely measured in hundreds of millions of investor dollars, increasingly complex to resource for and develop, and rely on the promise of shifting a mountain of copies in order to turn a profit. The numbers are big, the margins are slim, and the risks are increasingly high. (GamesIndustry)