Wednesday, April 12, 2006
Wal-Mart Controls Modern Game Design?
"That Wal-Mart smiley face is looking pretty evil now that Allen Varney has explained how much influence they have on virtually every modern game: 'Publisher sales reps inform Wal-Mart buyers of games in development; the games' subjects, titles, artwork and packaging are vetted and sometimes vetoed by Wal-Mart. If Wal-Mart tells a top-end publisher it won't carry a certain game, the publisher kills that game. In short, every triple-A game sold at retail in North America is managed start to finish, top to bottom, with the publisher's gaze fixed squarely on Wal-Mart, and no other.'"
source:http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/04/11/1759205
source:http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/04/11/1759205
# posted by dark master : 4/12/2006 09:53:00 AM
