Microsoft: Still Plenty of Power Left in PS3
President, Entertainment & Devices Division says so
Robbie Bach, Microsoft's President, Entertainment & Devices Division has something positive to say about at least one of the competition: in this case the PS3.
He tells CBC News that, "I think in many ways we’re still on the upside of the console lifecycle. Historically, the content cycle has been driven by graphic technology.
"There’s still plenty of power available in the Xbox 360, there’s still plenty of power available in the [Sony] PlayStation 3. Nintendo probably can’t say that. They may have a capacity and a power problem on the graphics side that they need to deal with. But when I look at the [overall] cycle, I think there’s still plenty of upside given what we have today."
There is, of course, also Natal news. Bach reiterates the Shane Kim line from TGS last year, saying, "We have something like 70% or 80% of the publishers in the world already doing Natal-based games. Our first party studios are [also] very focused on this. We want to have a few titles from Microsoft that show the way and then we want the breadth and power of the ecosystem from our partners to bring lots of new ideas, new innovations, new concepts to the marketplace. Xbox games don’t go away; you have to think of all this as additive. I think it adds to the beauty of what’s going on."
He tells CBC News that, "I think in many ways we’re still on the upside of the console lifecycle. Historically, the content cycle has been driven by graphic technology.
"There’s still plenty of power available in the Xbox 360, there’s still plenty of power available in the [Sony] PlayStation 3. Nintendo probably can’t say that. They may have a capacity and a power problem on the graphics side that they need to deal with. But when I look at the [overall] cycle, I think there’s still plenty of upside given what we have today."
There is, of course, also Natal news. Bach reiterates the Shane Kim line from TGS last year, saying, "We have something like 70% or 80% of the publishers in the world already doing Natal-based games. Our first party studios are [also] very focused on this. We want to have a few titles from Microsoft that show the way and then we want the breadth and power of the ecosystem from our partners to bring lots of new ideas, new innovations, new concepts to the marketplace. Xbox games don’t go away; you have to think of all this as additive. I think it adds to the beauty of what’s going on."
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Spinface 12 Jan 2010 10:41
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I don't know how I feel about 70%-80% of the world's publishers already working on Natal games. Assuming they'll be largely casual titles, that means that huge great chunks of development resources are being sucked up by the peripheral, which means less resources for core titles.
Which could turn out to be bad.
Which could turn out to be bad.
Dreadknux 12 Jan 2010 10:56
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Spinface wrote:
I don't know how I feel about 70%-80% of the world's publishers already working on Natal games. Assuming they'll be largely casual titles, that means that huge great chunks of development resources are being sucked up by the peripheral, which means less resources for core titles.
Which could turn out to be bad.
Which could turn out to be bad.
Worse is that, besides Microsoft and Lionhead (and the odd tech demo), no publisher has come forward and talked about what their plans are for Natal. If they're working on something right now, surely they would want to talk about it and give the peripheral a PR leg-up.
Hopefully they're just all holding back until E3 or something. Otherwise, I wouldn't put much faith in them being amazing casual experiences at all.
One thing though; I remember MS talking about offering Natal games through XBL Marketplace. Could that be why we've not heard much about these 70%-80% publisher-made games? I dunno.