> Every time this topic comes up I point to the fact that the television industry makes gigantic volumes of content, reasonably on-schedule and on-budget. Movie

> Every time this topic comes up I point to the fact that the television industry makes gigantic volumes of content, reasonably on-schedule and on-budget. Movies have somewhat different math, but there's a huge economic segment routinely producing creative content with a high proportion of salary expenses, much of which is unionized. TV and movies are produced by people who understand storytelling. This is something that has been discussed in the game dev industry ever since the arrival of CD-ROMs. Suddenly, free of the constraints of floppy disks, devs thought they could create huge fantastic worlds to roam in. They sure did, but they have lost the plot. CD-ROM and then DVDs removed one of important constraints that forced creativity; cheap 24bit 3d cards removed another. And yet, one of the most fun games in recent history is Minecraft, a game that does not need gigabytes of textures or fancy 3d hardware.