Quote Originally Posted by screwtype
As it happens, I was listening to a long interview of one of the founding fathers of Atari a couple of days ago (who went on to found Activision, forget his name).

He said there is no longer innovation in the computer gaming industry because games have become so expensive to make. Once upon a time two or three guys working together could program a game in a few weeks, so you could afford to take risks. But today, dozens of programmers spend a total of several man-years to put together a game, and with such high costs, they can't afford to risk failure so they stick to tried and true formulas, sequels and so on.

My own opinion is that game companies will continue to churn out the same old garbage as long as people keep buying - so people should stop buying. Unfortunately, it's kind of hard to persuade people to do this...
Thats just half the story, true games are getting expensive but you fail and that Atari dude (Mother****** Satans spawn all of them :P ruined plenty of good games with their crap handle on the video games industry, all the hags at atari dont know how to make good modern games, bums are living in the past) is that so has your income , before when 3 or 4 people could make a game in weeks at most they would be able to get a max of 70,000, 90,000, or even a 100,000$'s well in todays market where revinues from games like WoW exceed 5,000,000$ per month, i think you can safely say that rising cost's are just one side of the same coin, as the costs rises so does your profits.