Comment Look at other software industries.. (Score 1) 132
The reason console game companies are being like this now more than ever is because they can and they think they have to. They are following the model of other software development. Console games used to be the paragon of software stability.. if you crash they won't buy was the mantra.. now MS has joined the fray and let me tell you.. they know how to win by shipping first and shoddy.
So to compete other companies had to try something. They looked at other software industries (Patch # what!!?!?) and they did what they thought they had to. Console games are only a small wedge of a much bigger problem.. consumers have learned to accept crap from software because they've been told they have to.. In my opinion it makes the whole industry look bad.. (well it does make software developers look like dark magicians working in the arcane and unpredictable arts.. so I guess there's some mystique value :)
That day will end though, I think. Unless the industry can find some other great paradigm shift that will baffle consumers and convince them "It's all new and therefore should be buggy".. Otherwise people will start shopping more and more on quality. The software industry just has to mature some more is all. Companies are already getting rocked by this.. slowly but surely..
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So to compete other companies had to try something. They looked at other software industries (Patch # what!!?!?) and they did what they thought they had to. Console games are only a small wedge of a much bigger problem.. consumers have learned to accept crap from software because they've been told they have to.. In my opinion it makes the whole industry look bad.. (well it does make software developers look like dark magicians working in the arcane and unpredictable arts.. so I guess there's some mystique value
That day will end though, I think. Unless the industry can find some other great paradigm shift that will baffle consumers and convince them "It's all new and therefore should be buggy".. Otherwise people will start shopping more and more on quality. The software industry just has to mature some more is all. Companies are already getting rocked by this.. slowly but surely..
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