Post: Ken Levine Says New Consoles Would Be “Bad For Everybody"
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02-09-2011, 01:37 AM
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Bioshock Creator: New Consoles Would Be “Bad For Everybody”
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Ken Levine is best known for having created Bioshock, one of the more cinematic and high-production-value franchises out there. So it seems a little strange at first to hear him saying that a new generation of more powerful consoles would be such a problem.
"At this point I have no desire as a developer and zero desire as a gamer to see the next generation come out where I’m sitting right now.
It still costs us a fortune to make games on this platform. If they’re going to up the scale, up the art, up the content, I don’t know how to make that and sell it to anybody for under $100 a game. Who wants to do that? It’s bad for everybody."-Ken Levine
The amount of work and money being put into AAA games is pretty insane, and if your platform is built around that kind of game, there’s a tradeoff. And right now it seems we’re more or less at the limits of what the consoles and development tools can do on a decent budget.
"At this point I have no desire as a developer and zero desire as a gamer to see the next generation come out where I’m sitting right now.
It still costs us a fortune to make games on this platform. If they’re going to up the scale, up the art, up the content, I don’t know how to make that and sell it to anybody for under $100 a game. Who wants to do that? It’s bad for everybody."-Ken Levine
The amount of work and money being put into AAA games is pretty insane, and if your platform is built around that kind of game, there’s a tradeoff. And right now it seems we’re more or less at the limits of what the consoles and development tools can do on a decent budget.
My thoughts:
I have to agree with him. There's been too many changes in the past, and we should be perfecting the consoles we have now before exploring with anything new. And, like he said, new and more expensive technology will just lead to more expensive games. Games now-a-days are expensive as it is.
So what are your thoughts? Do you agree with him? Or do you think we should use the past to pave a way for the future?
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02-09-2011, 01:45 AM
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02-09-2011, 01:47 AM
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