Months of planning and enormous budget spends
meant huge productions were already in place for the annual confab, where games publishers unveil their upcoming slates and tease products they'll be launching in the coming year to a savvy audience of thousands of gaming pros and media onsite, and millions more watching livestreams from home.
Not exact matches
But for a
huge media conglomerate like Disney, even that kind of success isn't enough, especially when Disney knew that a licensing model would
mean higher margins and less risk than running an internally - funded effort that shoulders responsibility for marketing, distribution, toy
production, physical inventory, and a 300 - person game development studio.
Also, legalizing pot would move its
production out into the open, literally,
meaning that growers would no longer need to rack up
huge energy costs to keep their illegal indoor growing operations lit up by artificial light.
Though it made
huge steps regarding graphics and
production value, good visuals don't always
mean that it's a good game.
In all of these scenarios, the marginal cost of
production is not going to be even $ 1 for a trade paperback and will rarely be over $ 1.50 for a trade hardcover (obviously the last big brick Harry Potter novels cost a teeny bit more due to sheer volume of paper needed to print a 750 page novel, but not * that * much more),
meaning that if we're talking marginal cost of
production as the difference in price between a paperback and an ebook, we're not talking about a
huge difference in price.
When the
production of the system fell through, the game had to be reworked into a cartridge title mid-development,
meaning that
huge chunks of story had to be cut, amongst other things.
This doesn't necessarily
mean that spouses and family members are contributing directly to game
production costs, but not having to worry about making rent and cost of living is a
huge advantage.
AGW
mean a
huge government bureaucracy to regulate every
production and use of power by anyone anywhere, and the taxes to pay for all that.
But the global recession after 2008 caused a crash in
production,
meaning there is a now
huge oversupply of permits.
A year ago at CES, Faraday Future was lambasted for making
huge promises and then delivering a halting, awkward presentation of a supercar - like concept that was never
meant for
production.