Games Are Critical

Reuters runs an article today about MTVN’s plans to invest a large chunk in games:

MTV Networks plans to invest well over $500 million in video games, seeing the red-hot entertainment category as a major pillar of growth in its goal to reach consumers wherever they spend time.

…a major phallic pillar of growth…

“Media companies are crazy trying to bring video-game development in house,” Wedbush Morgan analyst Michael Pachter said about developing complicated console games. “They act like anyone can do this. The fact is not everyone can.”

… which in turn may become very good news for all us independent game developers.

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