Comments on: Splatterhouse dev, Bottlerocket, shuts its doors

By: blackdreamhunk

blackdreamhunk — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 18:15:19 +0000

share holder reason around red numbers and black enough said. My reasoning will work wel too when game devs find them self out of a dream job.

By: JonFE

JonFE — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 16:35:23 +0000

Why do you insist trying to reason with him? He wouldn’t budge even if all PC games suddenly ceased to exist

By: Gekidami

Gekidami — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 16:05:39 +0000

What world do you live in BDH? Have you actually looked at what studios have gone bust? Most of them didnt release anything in over 4 years nor did they have any projects going, its got nothing to do with high productions costs or marketing its because the devs simpley stoped working and therefore stoped getting fundings from publishers. And all that before the ‘high production cost’ PS3 and 360 came out.

By: blackdreamhunk

blackdreamhunk — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 15:56:49 +0000

they were losing money even before the ression. That is hardware and software.the recession is only speeding things up even more. It’s called high productions costs.

must of it in marketing too.

By: Michael O'Connor

Michael O'Connor — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 15:54:52 +0000

It’s not “speaking up speed” because of the recession. It’s happening *because* of the recession!

Dear lord.

Companies go down under all the time, through their own bad practises, and this has nothing to do with the fact that they are developing for consoles, which, in case you haven’t noticed, *is* the biggest slice of the gaming market.

PC gaming is great, I love it as much as anyone, but in case you haven’t noticed it generally has an extremely small selection of releases, and it’s been a niche category for years now.

By: blackdreamhunk

blackdreamhunk — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 15:48:34 +0000

you can try harder I’m not the one losing money on them consoles lol.

here lets make a bet, I think the company or should I say companies to say they are closing their doors will be a console game devs. Maybe even a publisher losing tons of money them consoles.

history is only repeating self and picking up speed in a ression.;)

By: Michael O'Connor

Michael O'Connor — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 15:45:34 +0000

“if I was a console game dev i would be very afraid of the console market. the list of game devs going bankuprt is insane.”

I’m trying really, really hard to hold back on the abuse right now, but… seriously, are you an idiot? We’re in the middle of a recession! Thousands of businesses in dozens of hundreds of different areas of commerce are going bankrupt!

You act like this is purely the fault of the console market, when its not. The PC is doing just as badly; only the biggest companies are making games on it that are a decent success.

By: blackdreamhunk

blackdreamhunk — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 15:39:45 +0000

yea well they are losing money on consoles at the end of the day. I wonder how well wolfenstin is doing these days.

By: Gekidami

Gekidami — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 15:37:51 +0000

You do know that nearly every dev listed in those links made PC games right? The list of closed studios from Nowgamer actually has more PC devs listed then anything else.

By: blackdreamhunk

blackdreamhunk — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 15:19:30 +0000

if I was a console game dev i would be very afraid of the console market.

the list of game devs going bankuprt is insane.

http://www.edge-online.com/news/playlogic-reports-loss-of-33-million

http://www.1up.com/do/feature?cId=3174841

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/31/video-game-makers-seeing-red/

http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20090506005551&newsLang=en

http://www.nowgamer.com/news/483/the-developer-graveyard

By: Blerk

Blerk — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 15:18:03 +0000

Yeah, it’s funny how the release of a new model at a cheaper price can scupper sales of the old one the week before it arrives.

By: Gekidami

Gekidami — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 15:17:35 +0000

Seeing as most PC games these days are multiplat, or from devs like EA and Acti who have several teams under their umbrella its not really surprising. The only exception is the ‘indie movement’ and thats because their games are cheap to make.
Over all PC software sales are terrible compared to console with only a few well established franchises doing well.

You may was to read the article through that link btw, the reason for low sales is blantantly stated.

By: blackdreamhunk

blackdreamhunk — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 15:12:20 +0000

pc game devs are fair alot better in this recssion than console game devs.

In fact pc games are makng more than console game devs right now.

so I wonder who will be the next publisher or console game devs comapny to go bankuprt or close it’s doors.

here check this out in japan you know the ps3 right, well I hear something got broken over there.

http://www.edge-online.com/news/japanese-ps3-sales-tumble-ahead-of-slim-launch

By: Gekidami

Gekidami — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 15:10:51 +0000

Yet most of those dead game devs you tend to list also made PC games.
As for BottleRocket, they’ve closed because they havnt made a game that was actually released in 4 years and lost all their funding when Splatterhouse moved dev to Namco Bandai (far as i know Stephany it wasnt canned and is meant to come out in 2010).

By: blackdreamhunk

blackdreamhunk — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 15:00:23 +0000

anther console game devs goes bankuprt. The list gets bigger in this recssion. More proff that consoles are killing game devs.

one more link to add to my now long list of dead game devs. That I have started to monitor.