Following on from comments made by EA's Gerhard Florin and Silicon Knights' Denis Dyack advocating a single, unified and open games format, leading UK independent developers have sounded off on the issue. And they aren't convinced.
In a DevelopMag.com article, NaturalMotion CEO Torsten Reil, Blitz Games' Andrew Oliver and Frontier's David Braben say they don't believe a single format is viable for the industry's future. They use historical precedents (MSX, CDi, 3DO, and even PC) to point out that a 'single games format' has never paid off well in the past and will still be infeasible.
Ultimately, the developers believe a single games format is in truth contrary to everything the industry is built on; it would remove the one thing that makes the world of games development move so quickly – competition. Plus, a single platform would be a blow for the thriving middleware market.
Square Enix launches Final Fantasy X 25th anniversary site, revealing new Nomura art, books, music releases, and merchandise.
Look I know VIII has its issues and all that but how on earth can the do big anniversary events with new artwork and merchandise for VII, IX and X yet VIII got sweet f*** all.
They could have given it something during its 25th anniversary yet all it got was a single Happy Anniversary post on their social media.
they should know that we are OG fans of VIII as it sold truckload as well. not as much as VII or X. I personally didn't like IX but X and VI are my personal fav.
Shadow Hearts 2 covenant is another game I love. I hope one day someone can make remake, I would be delighted
Final Fantasy VIII is great and you are always the first to defend it in the comments
FuRuy has opened a Twitter account called “Project Alice” teasing a new game announcement on April 25 at 20:30 JST.
The Wii is now a retro console. Let’s get nostalgic about an often maligned system.
Crazy to think the WII is to the Switch 2, as the NES was to the WII back then. 20 Year difference.
My wife asks me to bust it out (heh) everyone once in a while to play bowling and tennis with the kids. There was a ton of slop on it but some good stuff as well.
Wii was great but boy howdy did it cause Microsoft to go on a dark walk with the Kinect and the disastrous XBox One launch that they arguably never recovered from.
Not nostalgic for me.. I was there.. anyone who wasnt a little kid realized it was a gamecube with shit tacked onto it, it was the "joke" system and was well below even the switch in terms of comparing it to the latest machines at the time. The machine was well loved by young people and "casual gamers" who now remember it 20 years on, or in most cases more of its sales came in the 15-20 years ago range not right at launch- but again its not nostalgic for people who were "gamers" then really, just for those who ended up with one in their house, the games , graphics, interface and online features were archaic already in 2006.
Oh, so EA wants a PC gaming console...
EA just wants to maximise profits and decrease production costs. It has nothing to do with how the strain of having to develop on multiple consoles negatively effects a game's quality. It would be a poor game anyway if EA had a hand in making it. All they care about is making as much money as they can with cheaply-made, rehashed games.
It works for PC's. Consoles are not PC's and shouldn't be treated like one. I like the bells and whistles and differences all the consoles bring. If we only had one then why bother and just get a computer. The competition would only be between developers but the game releases would have to be stretched out more for everyone would have the same console. Right now we have 3 companies thinking of how to improve their machines daily while if we only had one console it could very well be a take it or leave it sort of mentality.
I've always wondered about people who groan about having all these choices. The ability to make a choice is the reason why any system gets upgraded in the next revision. Competition is good for the consumer so lets keep things that way.