Post: 'Exclusives give hardware their identity,' says Zipper Interactive
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04-14-2011, 10:05 PM
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In a recent interview with You must login or register to view this content.'s Tom Orry, Special Forces lead designer Travis Steiner commented on how exclusives is what keeps each console unique in their own way. Meaning, if every single videogame was multi-platform, the game wouldn't be as special, would it? No, it wouldn't, that's why Zipper Interactive, the makers of the Playstation 3 exclusive SOCOM franchise, is staying that way.
"Exclusives are what give the hardware their identity," Steiner said. "It's the brands, right? Ultimately hardware is important, but the hardware developers and the brands - PlayStation, or the other ones - are really defined by the exclusive titles. Without that, everything would be lost in a sea of... being generic, if you will."
Steiner also commented on how multi-platform titles must not keep their eyes on making one platform look better than the other [*cough* Treyarch *cough*]. He also commented on how if you make a title multi-platform, the quality won't be as good, because you don't want to spend ages perfecting the graphics on different platforms, unless you really want the best of that title to be famous for having amazing graphics on different platforms.
"I also think that multi-platform games sometimes have to make sacrifices to work for either platform, whereas we have the advantage of knowing the target hardware we're making the game for. In the end result, you get better quality by making it specifically for one piece of hardware."
He then gave a prime example of why being exclusive helps the quality, his example was of SOCOM.
"A good example, look at the texture resolution in SOCOM," Steiner added. "You look at the textures and the high fidelity graphics... doing multi-platform, that attention to detail on graphical quality would suffer. The final quality is better for being very focused on particular hardware."
SOCOM: Special Forces will be released on April 21.
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