Quantic Dream's David Cage says he has yet to face a PS3 hardware limitation, believes industry lacks creativity; games too focused on violence.
http://www.gamespot.com/news/next-gen-not-needed-until-2017-says-heavy-rain-dev-6377776
The next generation of consoles won't be needed until 2017, according to Heavy Rain studio Quantic Dream founder David Cage. Speaking to Develop recently, Cage said existing platforms, like the PlayStation 3 (for which Quantic Dream develops exclusively), are powerful enough to remain relevant and capable for another half-decade.
Cage isn't interested in next-generation technology just yet.
"I'm not that interested in technology or the next generation of consoles," he said.
"If we could continue with PlayStation 3 for another five years it would be fine with me."
Cage went on to explain that the main limitation is not in hardware (he says he's not yet found something the PS3 can't power), but rather a lack of creativity on the part of developers.
"As an industry we have pretty much have been building the same games for 50 years, despite the platforms changing," he said.
When the next generation of consoles do arrive Cage expects them to have typical trappings of updated technology.
"What do I expect from the next generation of hardware? You know, the usual," he said. "More polys, and higher resolution texture maps, and, horsepower, and, stuff. Wow. It's so cool and exciting."
Cage also sounded off on the present market. He said the industry is oversupplied with first-person shooters and role-playing games, and is too tilted towards violence.
"The industry is too far balanced towards kids and teenagers. It's too focused on violence," he said. "There should be games for all ages, all tastes. Whatever is possible with interactive entertainment should be explored, and I don't think we're seeing that right now."
My Comment:
oh yeah Cage, there's no violence on Heavy Rain right? And the sex and nudity? You're a f***** hypocrite! For example: a woman squirming and screaming as she catches on fire; a man impaled in the chest with a power drill; a female attacked in her own home by masked male assailants (the scene is prolonged); and a man shot (shown in slow-motion) by police officers; Ethan, is forced to cut off a segment of his own finger with several instruments (saw, scissors, knife, etc.). The game contains sexual content and nudity. Shower cutscenes, if players control the female character, her breasts and buttocks are also briefly visible; the player-character is asked to strip; at gunpoint, she dances topless in front of the man. The game also contains a prompt-based love scene (kissing and rubbing) in which players match on-screen cues to angle characters? mouths, remove shirts and blouses, unhook bras, and lower to the floor; a woman briefly appears topless amidst the dark shadows and heavy breathing. Very instructional Cage, very creative !!!
I've never read so much BS in one text in my whole life!! I like to have story or creativity on games, but not alone those things can make a good game, I like good graphics too, I like to have state of the art features at my disposal and I don't see a great evolution on technology coming from 256mb RAM ! Based on his lack of interest about new technologies, and his unfortunate comment about how games are the same since the last 50 years, all we can assume is that this guy is desperate, he has something behind that stupid thinking that he's not telling us, maybe they spent so much money on R&D to learn how to work with the PS3 system that they are affraid to lose all that money to start all over with a new system. Make a comparison between the specifications of the 6 years old consoles and the newer PCs and you will see the huge gap in technology they have, which we are not taking any advantages right now due to this delay on releasing new gen consoles. I'm sure there's only two excuses to not release new systems earlier, one possibility is because all the clueless gamers are still playing consoles and they're not migrating to other systems or complaining about, which it keeps heating the consoles market until now, the other one is because they know the world will end this year! Pick your choice !
Shredwolf in reply:
Game Industry who is in hurry getting to next generation console need to be slapped across the head with 2 by 4 plank. Making games cost a ton already and fools themselves whinging about used games and not getting enough revenue say the games need to have better graphics. Are they serious? Not only that we are not quite out of recession, that we, consumers don't blindly buy any games and consoles. There are number of decent companies getting laid off because it's hard to get by. I must say the majority of game industry is just delusional. David Cage is one of a few developers who seems to know what's going on in the industry. Say whatever the hell you like about his games, but I agree with the man, the games need some more variety, especially triple A titles. His games are very flawed but at least he tries to experiment. Every games he is involved in, it honestly catches the eyes. Nowadays, hardly anything interesting catch my eyes. All I see are the same old 3rd action adventure, 3rd person shooter or 3rd person RPGs that are all sequels and only ones that I see that are actually mature I can count on my fingers. "Games are art" my ass. These sort of reactions I read only seems to support my argument.
dalua360 in reply to Shredwolf:
If we start a discussion about economy, I think it would be really futile to argue about video games since the world have bigger problems. Although, you are right about the lack of variety and the huge cost that the developers are facing today, so, the least we could do is to not buy generic games, sequels verging the "expansion" category, that would force them to invent new fresh ideas, but I think this is almost utopic since the most part of its customers are kids.
Landsharkk replied cr8ive:
Better graphics don't make a fun game better, they just make it look better. It doesn't effect gameplay. I'm not saying better graphics are bad. I just mean they really aren't needed to have better and more creative games. I think that might be what Mr Cage is trying to express.
superlick in reply to Landsharkk:
I don't think that is what he meant. From the sound of his quote especially. "More polys, and higher resolution texture maps, and horsepower, and stuff. Wow. It's so cool and exciting." He's insinuating displeasure with the trend. The trend to sell visually striking games. While this isn't all bad. I agree with him that, in that trend, there is a lack of creativity. If we step back for a moment and review gaming, its origins, and what games kept us coming back. Most of the true glory days of gaming never required system's close to today's PC standards. And I guess that leaves me wondering why so much emphasis on the graphical engine? Sure it looks better, ascthetically speaking. But games should have an iconic nature which is based on more than just their graphical muscle. For example just take BF3 on 360. Obviously through that game we can observe 360's ability to handle a heavy payload. Within that range it is widely possible to create new and innovative genres. There is a demand for higher performance, but obviously the need is greater creativity.
dalua360 in reply to superlick:
You are completely right about that, but I just think that the consoles are holding up new technologies that we don't even have idea it's possible yet, because if you take a look at the console's system specifications and compare to the latest PC system available, there's a huge difference and I'm wondering, if they can make BF3 with 256mb RAM, what they could do with GBs more ? I don't see publishers trying to make the new "Crysis", I mean, they are not spending money on super PC exclusive games, and there's a reason behind that.