When PlayStation’s chief architect, Mark Cerny, hints that game development durations will soon surpass the time it takes to conceptualize and design an entire console, it’s clear that the industry is on the brink of implosion.
And then they will need to adapt the new game to both the older and newer platforms, adding more time to development process in order to get a simultaneous release.
Out of curiosity I researched the Gears franchise. You can't even buy remastered remakes of 2 and 3 for the PC. Only the first is available. What are these people even doing.
Tim Cain (of Fallout 1&2 fame) has a story he told on his YouTube about work he had done more recently and how inefficient it was. He wanted to test something and needed a very basic ai, something he said could easily be done in a few hours. The team told him "3 weeks." He eventually got them down to 2 weeks, but that is the kind of productivity these places have, turning a a 3 hour job into a 3 week job; no wonder things take so long.
Tbf, i can easily believe longer times because of upper management bullshit. It's wild how often this stuff comes up irl now, and ends up with spending more time in meetings about a thing than just doing it.
This is probably the biggest take-away:
And then they will need to adapt the new game to both the older and newer platforms, adding more time to development process in order to get a simultaneous release.
Out of curiosity I researched the Gears franchise. You can't even buy remastered remakes of 2 and 3 for the PC. Only the first is available. What are these people even doing.
Tim Cain (of Fallout 1&2 fame) has a story he told on his YouTube about work he had done more recently and how inefficient it was. He wanted to test something and needed a very basic ai, something he said could easily be done in a few hours. The team told him "3 weeks." He eventually got them down to 2 weeks, but that is the kind of productivity these places have, turning a a 3 hour job into a 3 week job; no wonder things take so long.
Tbf, i can easily believe longer times because of upper management bullshit. It's wild how often this stuff comes up irl now, and ends up with spending more time in meetings about a thing than just doing it.
Some jobs take about 3 hours, too bad that there's only one guy allowed to do it and he's booked with 3 hour jobs for the next 3 weeks.
The mythical man month.