{"id":34169,"date":"2012-03-14T13:33:15","date_gmt":"2012-03-14T11:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=34169"},"modified":"2012-03-14T17:12:15","modified_gmt":"2012-03-14T15:12:15","slug":"david-jaffe-doesnt-care-about-next-gen-platforms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/34169-david-jaffe-doesnt-care-about-next-gen-platforms","title":{"rendered":"David Jaffe doesn\u2019t care about next-gen platforms"},"content":{"rendered":"

In an interview with Edge, Twisted Metal and God of War creator David Jaffe has said that he \u201ccouldn\u2019t care less about next-gen\u201d.<\/p>\n

According to Jaffe, gameplay innovation is far more important than system specs and graphics. Says the guy who just released a Twisted Metal reboot; really?<\/p>\n

“I started at Sony<\/a> Imagesoft doing Super Nintendo<\/a> and Sega<\/a> Genesis games, and I went through that to PS1<\/a>, then PS2<\/a>, PS3<\/a>, Vita<\/a>\u2026 You go through the cycle enough and you realise today’s ‘Oh my f****** God’ is tomorrow’s ‘Ehh, whatever’.\u201d<\/p>\n

“Ultimately, this is all going to be yesterday’s news and it’s about the experience, the game. Unless we’re talking about holodecks, or AI that’s so amazing it can actually write a compelling story around you procedurally based on your choices, I’m not interested.”<\/p>\n

If anything, Jaffe thinks that next-gen platform development will mean increased development budgets, which means that more \u201crisky\u201d projects are less likely to be green-lighted.<\/p>\n

“I’m no longer that excited about next-gen technology; it means budgets go up.\u201d<\/p>\n

“It sucks. The biggest thing I want is what you get from the PSP<\/a> and the 3DS<\/a> – it’s always on, there’s a sleep mode and I can just hit a button and I’m right back where I was and I don’t have to go through all the boot-up s***.”<\/p>\n

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"This is where the holographic video game console controller goes."<\/p><\/div>\n

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