SupremeAC said:

very interesting blog post with a lot of research on the cost of gaming, both to users and developers.

Some interesting take aways:

Between 1985 and 2005, the 'cost per byte' (unit of cost of development) decreased by factor 6.  In those 2 decades, devs became 6 times as efficient in creating content.  However, overall cost went up by factor 22.  More concerning: after 2005 the 'cost per byte' didn't decline much anymore, while overall costs most certainly still rose higher and higher. The author questions of this might be down to the dominance of Unity and Unreal Engine as middleware engines, to the point where they might be holding back further innovations in terms of more efficient content creation.

When you factor in inflation, games are about half as expensive as they used to be (at full retail price).

I'll read through that for Ep 109 of game under podcast, thanks Sup.

gamingeek said:

When the hell is E3?

Tuesday June 11th.

gamingeek said:

Thanks

No problem. I think Microsoft will have their conference on Monday before E3 and E3 wraps up Thursday the 13th.