From: Dirk Bruere at Neopax
>we have to start somewhere and that might as well be with the company
that
>can provide the biggest slice of the market.
Slice of the market? Then we ARE talking about publishers...?
>From our POV it will not be cheap
>providing them with prototypes they can play with. At present it would be
>something like $50k per shot pre-production. We cannot multiply that by
100.
I never suggested that you hire 100 companies and send out 100
prototypes.
>What we need is someone who can get into the source code of (say) Call of
Duty
>2, modify the code and then re-release it as an upgrade. That's not
likely to be
>someone we employ.
It's been a fun challenge trying to figure out what you were doing so
that your real need could be addressed. If, for example, you need to
make Call of Duty 2 work on your hardware, then you have to first talk
to Activision (the game's publisher) and do a deal with them - then
they get the source code, and either provide it to the developer who'll
do the work or provide it to you so you can have your developer do it.
So you don't need a list of the biggest developers - you need to talk
to the publishers. It's publisher relation****ps you need first, if your
new product is hardware and you want ****ts of hit software to sup****t
it. The need for developers come after the publisher relation****ps have
been established.
And if you don't already know who the top publishers are, then you
probably aren't ready to enter into this business. But doing a Google
search on "top ten game publishers" will definitely get you the
information. If your hardware is a new platform, don't bother
contacting Sony, Nintendo, or Microsoft. If it's a peripheral, you
definitely do need to contact them.
Good luck, Dirk.
Tom
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