As game developers and publishers look more and more to digital distribution as a way to bypass current brick-and-mortar game sellers -- in part to cut down on game reselling, a major loss to their bottom line -- we could be witnessing the beginning of a new model of game development. In the future, when you drop $60-$70 on a new game, you might just be buying the game engine and the background art, with the knowledge that the developers will be releasing content packs that provide entirely new, self-contained game experiences that build off the original title.
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MediaPost Publications New Gaming Model With Release Of 'Undead Nightmare'? 11/02/2010 - 0 views
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Interesting perspective: consumers could begin purchasing games knowing they're buying the platform/creative assets and that they will have to make micropayments for shorter-form content. Already being done with DLCs on major titles, but it could alter the way people think about the games they purchase.
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