So long as there have been console platforms, there have been console wars, individuals who really feel the necessity to ‘defend’ a company due to their alternative of gaming platform, and their perception that they need to justify this option to others.
Sadly console wars have lengthy been a cultural results of simply having a number of platforms, although Ultimate Fantasy 16 producer Naoki Yoshida needs issues had been completely different.
Yoshida, in keeping with an interview with a Taiwanese outlet translated by IGN, would as a substitute moderately that there was only one gaming platform, for everybody, and it could make everybody’s lives simpler.
Now Yoshida wasn’t instantly speaking about how this is able to take away the necessity for any warring between followers of computer systems in numerous colored packing containers, however it could positively be a part of the outcome on the planet Yoshida pitches.
That is additionally coming from somebody who beforehand hasn’t been shy about how he feels about dangerous actors in on-line areas.
“Sport platforms…I in all probability shouldn’t say this, however I want there was just one. It might be higher for each the builders and the gamers.”
If everybody performed on one platform, nobody could be barred from enjoying the perfect video games just because two firms made a deal for exclusivity. First-party exclusives could be pointless.
Countless comparisons between recreation efficiency on one platform to a different would stop, and everybody, all over the place would simply need issues to be higher for the neighborhood as a complete, as a substitute of people that could be simply discovered on-line that spew speech implying or instantly stating they need issues to be worse for the opposite facet.
Builders would even be freed from the burden of making an attempt to make their video games work on seven completely different platforms at a time, and as a substitute be capable to concentrate on making the expertise you get the perfect it might completely be.
In fact it’s price declaring that Yoshida says this whereas lots of the video games he’s labored on have been PlayStation console exclusives, most of which nonetheless stay as such.
Nevertheless it’s uncertain that any deal relating to exclusivity is as much as Yoshida. He can also’t undue the historical past or the circumstances that make console platforms exist.
Yoshida’s speaking a few fictional world, although it’s one which doesn’t sound too dangerous for a gamer.
Supply – [IGN]
