The Problem With the Amount of Resources and Capital Required to Make a Great Game

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It seems from the mostly outside that a problem in the games industry right now is the amount of resources and capital required to make a great game. Would you agree with that? It's that it stifles innovation. I mean, again, as a former studio boss, I would say yes and no, right? In one sense, yes, because it doesn't fully democratize the ability to make games, right? And we're getting there. We didn't... In the old days we used to create bitmaps by hand to try and wrap around 3D characters. Now you've got incredible tools in technology, Maya and advanced Photoshop tools which are just capable of accelerating that process.

We sit down Benchmark’s legendary gaming investors Mitch Lasky and Blake Robbins (now also of the excellent Gamecraft podcast fame) to discuss the history and future of gaming business models. This episode is the perfect bookend to our Nintendo/Sega gaming series this season on Acquired — no one is more qualified than Mitch and Blake to breakdown how the business side of the industry has evolved so radically from the Periscope quarter-drop days to the forever games and platform based publishers of today.

Regardless if you’re a gamer, understanding the incredible innovation that’s taken place over the past two decades in gaming and what it portends for other industries is critical for any founder and investor to understand. Tune in!

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