I've been playing the lite version of Game Dev Tycoon and every playthrough I get the same message for the Master V. Can it ever do good in North America or does it always fail? I was hoping there would be some random factor to the consoles but it doesn't appear there is. Can someone clear this up for me? Do the consoles follow the same pattern no matter what or can they be random?
Do the systems always follow the same pattern
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Seemingly not - for testing I did the following;
Got to development stage 3 for my new game, which presents a screen as below to assign programmers to World Design, Graphics, and Sound:
As you can see above, I have assigned employees to each area and the only one outstanding currently is Graphics - James E. Garmack. Garmack has the lowest work speed of all three of my employees, so I then moved everybody around a bit without changing any other settings on the screen:
As you can see, the amount of work that will be completed doesn't change. For reference, these are the stats of my employees:
I have so far seen two possible outcomes as a result of paying for his services;
Unlocking research, this is normally a "new topic", for money instead of research points. This is presented to you as "getting hold of new technology" or "borrowing technology".
Sabotaging your competitors, this usually costs more and results in the development that one of your competitors is doing getting sabotaged.
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Best Answer
Yes, all systems follow a timeline that roughly corresponds to the real life schedule of the various consoles and devices.
Below is the full timeline (at the base game speed - this gets stretched out or condensed depending on the game speed setting):
Data taken from the respective wikia pages.