This is going to be a really interesting console generation transition. If the games don't migrate, the consumers won't. If the consumers won't migrate you keep having to port to the last gen to avoid losing money...so the consumers don't migrate.
There's a potential here for a nasty little feedback loop if the big publishers are really as risk averse as they seem.
Well at some point, it stopped making sense to make tie in games for every movie. You can count on several hundred thousand copies based on the movie's hype and advertising budget and that was enough. Now that budgets have ballooned, several hundred thousand copies is known as a flop so why bother.
I think it's more that the people who grew up with shitty licensed ports are buying games for their kids now and recognize that licensed games are generally shitty and don't buy them.
All the shitty movie/tv games are moving over to iOS, where they can sell those 100k and be considered a success, or are ftp and covered in micro transactions. So they still exist, just moved platforms.
That and the fact that it's actually possible to finish making a halfway-decent iOS game before the movie comes out. It's pretty much impossible to do that for console stuff nowadays unless you throw a shitton of manpower at it, which no one's willing to do.
Man I remember when the license games were coming out before the movie and they had to obscure things because they didn't know how they would look in the movie, or were sworn to secrecy.
I think the LotR games had this problem with Gollum.
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That and the fact that it's actually possible to finish making a halfway-decent iOS game before the movie comes out. It's pretty much impossible to do that for console stuff nowadays unless you throw a shitton of manpower at it, which no one's willing to do.
I think the LotR games had this problem with Gollum.
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