The brutal truth is Alan, there currently are simply not enough visually
impared gamers to make it worth their while.
Even paripherals such as head track devices are not made by the big name
companies, ----- and indeed the companies do not put direct support for such
things in their games.
About the only support features they do add for any disability is
subtitles, ----- which more often than not is simply a consequence of the
game's originally being published in Japanese with japanese speech (as
making subtitles is a cheaper option than recording english voice
acting), ----- ditto for French, Spanish, german and other languages too.
As has been said, while it's quick and easy to chat to an independent
developer about adding access features to their games, big game companies
simply do not care sinse it won't line their pockits anymore.
I'll skip my left wing wrant, but ultimately, that is the main problem.
It is always cheaper to do nothing than something!
this is why I'm firmly of the belief we wont' see significant access changes
in mainstream games until a larger proportion of customers becomes disabled
themselves, ----- and possibly not even then.
Beware the grue!
Dark.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Allan Thompson" <[email protected]>
To: "Gamers Discussion list" <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, November 07, 2009 6:50 PM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Visually impaired gamer sues Sony Online.
Hi Tom,
Do you think it would cost more or less money for a game company like Sony
to make purely accessible games from scratch, then to make a regular title
for the sighted?
My thought is this, could a game company set up a dedicated department
that makes just accessible games that would probably cost less then a
regular title to make, enough of these accisible games could propel the
buying of console systems with peripherals among the blind and disabled
community. The accessible titles could probably be sold for the same price
as sighted games but with a larger profit perhaps?
Maybe I am just being naive here, what do you and others think?
al
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