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Re:Improbable and Epic Games establish $25M fund for ‘more o... by pjmlp on Friday January 11, 2019 @05:19AM (#18882346)
On the contrary, professional game developers love game consoles, precisily because they have a stable platform to target for at least 5 years, instead of dealing with each customer being a special case.

And that in spite of some bad apples still going through the gates, the large majority of flappy bird clones never makes.

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Re:Improbable and Epic Games establish $25M fund for ‘more o... by shmerl on Friday January 11, 2019 @12:29PM (#18885087)
Easier to work with doesn't make it higher quality overall. General perception of console games is exactly reduced quality, in the sense of art and games mechanics (due to mass market appeal and controller oriented design) and in technical aspects simply due to outdated hardware.

Incumbent consoles are trying to dig themselves out of this perception now, but they got it very deservedly.

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