Writer, Agilist, Elder Geek
The PS4 got announced in case you happened to have forgot that a Net full of Inter is out there, avoided all television, and talked to no other people. And you in no way will be startled that yours truly is going to keep with my continuing obsession about analyzing game news and its career implication and analyze the crap out of this.
So gear up people, here it comes. The PS4 is coming, and here’s what I think.
Continuing with my weekly obsession in trying to understand what the heck is going on with gaming, I continue with . . . more of the same. After all there’s a chance gaming is part of your career plans, and even if it isn’t, it might whether you like it or not.
Up this week, how the hell will anyone make money in video game?
The video game industry always involved gambles, and as some pretty big stinkers and unexpected hits can tell you, some gambles can get pretty odd. Some series seem to be able to do no wrong, unexpected hits come, guaranteed ideas fail. Some of this seems to be despite the actual quality of the games themselves.
Of course that’s the way it is, but in the disrupted world of gaming, I’m trying to get a handle on just how people and companies are going to handle the gamble – and make money. Here’s my theories – with a caveat.
I am trying to piece things together here from a lot of data, information, trends, experience, and gut checks. I may be totally wrong here, so call me out and explain why, because I really want to get a handle on this.
So on to what I’ve seen. Let’s start with the big names . . .
When I was at a Zero1 event, I heard about the efforts to use Open Source for education in Malaysia. This was among many, many things discussed (some of which will find their way into the blog here). But this got me thinking.
I’ve discussed before the role of “backlog” in media – we have so much made and recorded in various forms, this ever-growing amount of sheer media, that it has made me question how it affects the development of new media. Novelty, however, is very important in maintaining media interest.
Not as much in education.