DISQUS

Nicholas Lovell · 7 months ago

I think that it will be fascinating to see if this spawns copycat departures amongst other "super-star" developers.

My feeling is that it will, and that Wright's departure marks the beginning of the end of the current games business model, where the publisher owns the distribution and the talent and gets all of the reward.

Instead, we will see the creeping "Hollywood-isation" of games, as the few superstar developers able to "open" a game will garner the lion's share of the reward.

And overall, I think it will lead to a Golden Era of Gaming.

(More detailed analysis at http://www.gamesbrief.com/2009/04/will-wrights-...)