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Originally Posted by John Channing
Coldcall your arguement overlooks the fact that most developers have gotten out of simulations all together. The exception is Oleg, but he is self financed. Other than that... nada. Add to that the fact that there have been several experienced independent developers that have actually started developing Subsims (Akula: Red Hunter anyone?) and then threw in the towel when they ran out of funding.
Subsims like Ubisoft are incredibly complex, expensive simulations to develop from scratch. The reason the Silent Hunter series makes some sense financially is that most of the code is already done and paid for so the development time is shorter than if you were building it from a blank C++ screen. And on the plus side, you have experienced developers who have a passion for Sub-sims involved.
So... if you know of a self-financed, independent, experienced developer with oodles of money that has a passion for WW2 Subs then point them out to me, cuz I sure as heck can't find any.
JCC
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I'm not forgetting the current state of the games development/publishing. You are quite right that as things stands many niche genres have gone by the wayside.
However one of the reasons this has happened is because large groups like EA and Ubsioft have bought up many smaller independent developers. They have played the old game of buying up all your compeition and then you will have none, so we will soon be left with 3 or 4 large publishers who control the whole games industry.
But i am optimistic that this phase of consolidation is nearly over now, and because the games market is so huge (and growing) smaller developers will start popping up again where they see holes in the market.