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Date:
11/12/2012 6:30:23 AM
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RE: Sim... Console Gaming is Dead.....
A big problem with AAA game development is bad management. They don't have a best-practices system yet, which is extremely bad when you're talking about hundreds of millions of dollars. The movie industry has development down to a science. The game industry is nowhere near the same thing, but they need a true budget-conscious standard development framework in which all participants understand exactly what has to be done and how much time they have.
The game industry has no true production sense or proper middle management. They have no efficiency. They have PR bros running everything and zero understanding of project management. This is absolutely toxic with so much money at stake.
One good thing that might come out of the Call of Duty series is a management system. I'm not sure how much ActiVision has to do with that. Quite a lot, I suspect. Ubisoft is not my favorite company, but they have management. Now if only they would stop trying to develop for PC.
