This might not be the sort of industry banter that you're used to on a Monday morning. But then again, Grasshopper Manufacture's Goichi Suda isn't your typical games developer. He's so excited about the possibilities of next-gen, that the PlayStation 4 makes him positively "horny".The
No More Heroes and
Killer is Dead creator wrote about the benefits of next-generation hardware in his Famitsu column (translated by
Edge). Of these, he's most psyched about the promise of cloud gaming, and the ability to use one account to play the same games on multiple devices.
"I think that in the future, cloud delivery will become totally commonplace," he wrote. "That this play style will become a reality is futuristic enough. But in addition, cloud saving becoming standard practice is an evolution in itself. It will add new value and will surely result in new ways to play.
"Thinking about the future of this stuff and then constructing and outputting something appealing is our job as game designers, and from that challenge we can take new strength. And that makes me horny."
Grasshopper Manufacture was recently acquired by MMORPG publisher GungHo Entertainment. Suda revealed that both companies will be making games for Sony's PlayStation 4, along with Grasshopper's sister studio Acquire. "I can't go into detail at this stage, but for sure the new challenge is exciting," he wrote.
"During PlayStation Meeting 2013, Sony showed such a strong vision. Now we have to decide how to find our own victories within that and present games that express the Grasshopper world. And that makes me horny again."
We love 'SUDA51', but perhaps he could do with a cold shower or two every morning.