The lead designer of Reckoning prefers the stability of the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 than the uncharted territory of next generation consoles but only as a ‘developer’.
It is becoming a trend now as every publisher, developer, review site and blog is talking about the next generation of home consoles from Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft. A majority are looking forward to it and speculating as to what each platform will offer.
However, there are a handful of developers who feel that the time for the current generation of consoles is not over, not yet at least.
A few weeks earlier, one of the members of Epic Games, the team that worked on Gears of War 3, stated that the time for next generation consoles would be justified when there is a need for additional hardware that the current generation cannot offer.
He also believed that the current generation was only just reaching maturity, with developers now able to push the consoles to their absolute limits and get the best out of them.
It seems that he was no alone as the lead designer of Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, Ian Frazier, has echoed that sentiment and gone on record saying that as a player he is looking forward to the next generation of games, but as a developer he is dreading it.
“As a player, I’d love another generation of Xbox, I feel like we’ve been pushing this technology for a really long time, and I’d love to jump to the next level, the Xbox 720 or whatever it ends up being.”
He went on to share his views on the current generation, “As a developer? It’s really nice having a stabilised platform. Especially with the Xbox, it’s so solidified, people know it so well – it’s just really, easy to develop for at this point.”
That was before his confession, “So as a player I say ‘Yeah, let’s bring on the next generation!’. But as a developer, I’m like ‘Oh God, no, please, let’s all stay the same.”
Either way it seems that developers still have a bit of time to get their last batch of games out, that is if reports of the Xbox 720’s release at the start of 2013 are to be believed.
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