Should we Kickstart the Past?

[Jason]

If games were that expensive to make, every joe schmo with a little coding know how wouldn't be releasing the latest rendition of flappy birds for your android and ios devices.

As for publishers being scared to make games... the wiiu has nearly 100 games made just for it, and that's far and above what the PS4 and XB1 have on their own systems. Not to mention the arcade and homebrew stuff.

Publishers aren't scared to release a game, and games aren't that expensive to make. The problem is the games the publishers think we want are very expensive and they're scared that they'll flop because the usually do. They make the games we don't want... that cost a ton of money... that no one buys.

We don't all want Uncharted 8 or whatever that's got super realistic graphics and spendy voice acting and loads of cinema style action/quick time events. Sure those are good and fun... but we also like Katamari and Mario and Mega Man and old school RPGs and RTSs and FPSs that are actually fun...

If publishers want us to pay for the games we want to play, they need to make the games we want to play and stop churning out Gears of Halo 5: Madden 2016 Edition with Dead Or Alive DLC.