Wednesday, April 29, 2009
The Wall Street Journal Discusses Indie Gaming
Wow.
When the whole indie games movement thing gets a full article about it in the Wall Street Journal, you know two things:
#1 - Indie gaming has arrived. Whatever that is supposed to mean.
#2 - Hell hath frozen over.
The Wall Street Journal: Boom or Bust? A New Business Model for Videogames?
Wow. Sherman, set the wayback machine to a mere four years ago, when dinosaurs thought they ruled earth:
The high cost of game development means that only the largest companies can afford to be in the business. While low-budget movies can occasionally become hits, "it is now impossible to 'Blair Witch' this business," said Jeff Brown, vice president for corporate communications at Electronic Arts, referring to the successful independent film.Nifty.
Labels: Indie Evangelism
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No offense but what does the wall street journal know about game development (also EA for that matter OHH, J/K! I only kid.)
LOL
Well, the discovery that the Wall Street Journal now knows ANYTHING about indie game development at all is impressive. :)
But yeah, the Jeff Brown quote has amused me for YEARS. Not quite the same level as Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf, Iraqi Minister of Information, but that same kind of hyperbole in the face of the "indie invasion" back then, since proven even more wrong than I would have imagined.
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Well, the discovery that the Wall Street Journal now knows ANYTHING about indie game development at all is impressive. :)
But yeah, the Jeff Brown quote has amused me for YEARS. Not quite the same level as Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf, Iraqi Minister of Information, but that same kind of hyperbole in the face of the "indie invasion" back then, since proven even more wrong than I would have imagined.
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