Yup, this pretty much sums it up. From the small amounts of work ive done with the Proc, the setting up of the hardware takes very little time compared to the time sink that coding rules and putting together video and audio assets takes. The reason this hasn't been done is because there is no money in it.
Quoted from jamescardona:This is exactly true. PPS is working with me for NGG2.0. For other licenses, I am guessing he would be open to a business proposal as well.
But as others have said, it is difficult to get the economics to work. Just the hardware alone, depending on component choices, could drive the costs north of $800 to $1000. P-Roc, LCD monitor, and computer. Add it up. Then you have to add in all the costs of development and man-hours. And one person can't do everything. I purchased assets I couldn't make myself such as music, sound effects, etc. I wrote the code but I'm not a full-fledged development team.
I am really excited about the new hardware solutions such as APC that cold drive those hardware costs down and potentially allow for more projects to come to market, however, it is my opinion that there are not many developers out there that are stupid enough as I am to put a couple of thousand hours into a project and sell it for a few sheckels over cost.
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