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In my opinion the Developers this day and age are not doing their best for some systems out there,they seem to make 3rd rate games and think they will fly off the shelves,thus showing that they do not have respect for the consumer.Companies who port their two year old games to new machines expect them to sell just because of the name of the company take for example resi evil 2 on the DReamcast,it was absolutely great on the PLaystation but even thouhg it is still a top game they could not be bothered to add any thing,dont get me wrong I love those sort of games to come back for a new lease of life but when the developer does not bother to add anyhting extra it just dissapoints me.The Dreamcast is not the only machine to experience this the PC has had its ports of successful games too but again doesnt add anyhting new.Why dont they make they port the games across with added features they have time it is just a poor effort on their behalf but every now and then they do a good job and it makes up for the lack of effort previously,so I say keep developing titles that will win awards not the ones that keep your door from closing
Using the PS platform as an example, one of the first bundled games to come with a new console was Wipeout. Its state of the art graphics and sound, combined with great playability, ensured the success of the Playstation. A few years down the line, and developing games is a multi billion dollar industry run by the big companies, and they have Christmas deadlines and new console release dates to meet, and they make sure they meet them, hence the rushed onto the shelves buggy and incomplete games.
The other major factor that plays a part in this is the time it takes a game developer to fully learn what the capability of the platform they are programming for really is. New techniques and engines are still, today, being developed for the Playstation, and even without the launch of the PS2 we could still have a few groundbreaking games developed for the PS1 over the next year or two.
The same learning curve has applied to all platforms in the past, going right back to the ZX80 and ZX81, but now that the conglomerates are involved, we loose a bit of quality to ensure their profits. There is now real way to avoid this, as soon as there is money involved in anything, the big businesses always step in and take control, just look at football in the Premiership as an analogy.
The other major factor that plays a part in this is the time it takes a game developer to fully learn what the capability of the platform they are programming for really is. New techniques and engines are still, today, being developed for the Playstation, and even without the launch of the PS2 we could still have a few groundbreaking games developed for the PS1 over the next year or two.
The same learning curve has applied to all platforms in the past, going right back to the ZX80 and ZX81, but now that the conglomerates are involved, we loose a bit of quality to ensure their profits. There is now real way to avoid this, as soon as there is money involved in anything, the big businesses always step in and take control, just look at football in the Premiership as an analogy.
In my opinion the Developers this day and age are not doing their best for some systems out there,they seem to make 3rd rate games and think they will fly off the shelves,thus showing that they do not have respect for the consumer.Companies who port their two year old games to new machines expect them to sell just because of the name of the company take for example resi evil 2 on the DReamcast,it was absolutely great on the PLaystation but even thouhg it is still a top game they could not be bothered to add any thing,dont get me wrong I love those sort of games to come back for a new lease of life but when the developer does not bother to add anyhting extra it just dissapoints me.The Dreamcast is not the only machine to experience this the PC has had its ports of successful games too but again doesnt add anyhting new.Why dont they make they port the games across with added features they have time it is just a poor effort on their behalf but every now and then they do a good job and it makes up for the lack of effort previously,so I say keep developing titles that will win awards not the ones that keep your door from closing