MARCELO PRINCE, PETER ROTH (2004年12月21日). “Videogame Publishers Place Big Bets on Big-Budget Games”. Wall Street Journal Online. 2013年7月1日閲覧。 “The jump in development and marketing costs has made the videogame industry "enormously risk averse,[...]Publishers have largely focused on making sequels to successful titles or games based on movie or comic book characters, which are seen as less risky. "We don't green light any more things that will be small or average size games.[...]"”[リンク切れ]
