Will Wright was on the leading edge of designers who decided to depart from a larger game studio to found his own smaller company. While Stupid Fun Club’s the primary focus is not on video games, Wright sees how the industry is shifting.
“You have a lot of people who are able to do a lot with small teams and low costs; of course there’s a lot of noise in the market,” said Wright. “I think in some sense it’s kind of equalized. It used to be big companies doing triple-A titles on consoles is where all the money is. It’s shaken things up quite a bit with all these platforms. In some sense all the little mammals – small developers, new companies – have an opportunity right now to fill new niches that are expanding rapidly. They might be small opportunities now, but they very well could be huge opportunities in the not-too-distant future.”
“I think all the console guys are running scared,” he added. “Not so much because of the hardware, but because of the business models, free-to-play and that kind of thing, have shifted underneath them.”
Source: GamesIndustry.biz
