Sentences with phrase «high development costs»

Infrastructure assets have traditionally been characterized as long - lived, with high development costs (barriers to entry) and the potential for steady income streams, often linked to inflation.

She said more established financial companies have long struggled to serve lower - income markets because of high development costs and low profit margins.

Now a $ 60 billion market for the biotechnology and pharmaceutical sectors, growth of the market has been hampered by high development costs of producing these in animal cell systems, which when factoring in a long period for manufacturing, R&D and clinical trials, may reach around $ 1 billion per each therapeutic candidate.

Seeing that it was making plenty of money without high development costs, Konami's bosses started moving the company away from traditional console and PC - based games.

Large indie games with budgets in the $ 1.5 - $ 4 million range are awkwardly caught in the middle — they have to do MUCH better than a smaller indie team needs to thanks to the much higher development costs, but they don't have the resources to compete toe - to - toe with the larger & more experienced companies.

And third, during the third quarter, we recognized higher development costs for Mafia III than forecasted due to timing.

The online gaming industry, in particular, the indie game developers have been facing problems like high development costs because of game's publication on popular platforms, difficulties in getting and retaining the players, complex revenue models and player's limitations.

Coupled with high development costs, the economics of our current vertical business model no longer add up.»

In the past, former chief Davis was reluctant to launch new products because of high development costs and high failure rates.

In SaaS though it becomes of acute interest because of the generally higher number of VC - funded players in the industry and the high development costs associated with the business model.

This shift in strategy means we will cease production of Disney Infinity, where the lack of growth in the toys - to - life market, coupled with high development costs, has created a challenging business model.

Along with the positive findings, the report noted some skepticism among survey respondents concerning the system's benefits relative to its high development costs: Some 69 percent of respondents «agreed» or «strongly agreed» that the local Department of Education had spent too much money on the system; another 14 percent «somewhat agreed.»

A large proportion of the high development cost was due to the Mondeo being a completely new design, sharing very little, if anything, with the Ford Sierra.

Also, the general public still has not embraced EPUB 3, which has a growing portfolio of interactive books and has a higher development cost.

I doubt it is just to generate hype, seeing as the longer a title is delayed the higher the development costs.

Zelda is currently a Wii U only title due to high development costs, but they can reconsider to have another big game at NX launch

The 360 and PS3 have been long in the tooth for a very long time now, but I'm still left feeling that high development costs will mean we won't be seeing anything particularly original on either console for a very long time to come.

This shift in strategy means we will cease production of Disney Infinity, where the lack of growth in the toys - to - life market, coupled with high development costs, has created a challenging business model.

This will allow for a higher install base and the opportunity for more games to come to console in the form of free to play or even traditional premium priced games that can create a healthy profit despite the high development cost.

Wilson made headlines in the wake of Visceral's closure by revealing the high development costs and relatively low sales associated with the release of Dead Space 2.

With high development costs, weak economies, and faltering currencies, console gaming is now a luxury more than ever.