{"id":35221,"date":"2012-04-01T12:00:30","date_gmt":"2012-04-01T10:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=35221"},"modified":"2012-04-03T15:19:10","modified_gmt":"2012-04-03T13:19:10","slug":"developers-want-next-gen-consoles-to-be-more-update-friendly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/35221-developers-want-next-gen-consoles-to-be-more-update-friendly","title":{"rendered":"Developers want next-gen consoles to be more update-friendly"},"content":{"rendered":"

As console developers start looking to the future, many have expressed desires that Sony<\/a> and Microsoft\u2019s<\/a> next offerings allow for more open development.<\/p>\n

With PC games, developers can quite easily and inexpensively release content updates and bug fixes, but the same isn\u2019t true for console titles, where making changes often requires a lot of hoop-jumping. This in turn can have a negative impact on the actual quality of the product console owners are getting.<\/p>\n

David Polfeldt<\/a> of Ubisoft Massive<\/a> explains, “It’s sometimes expensive, there’s an awful lot of bureaucracy, even when you want to do quite small things.”<\/p>\n

“If I agree with [a suggested fix], I start to think ‘Oh yeah, to change that I would have to — oh sh*t, it’s just too much work.’ And I won’t change it even if I think [the feedback] is right.”<\/p>\n

Global business development director of Crytek<\/a> Carl Jones<\/a> also chimed in, saying, \u201cI think that’d be really helpful [if the consoles were more open], because certainly we’re seeing a change in models in games toward more freemium content, and a quicker response to your community.<\/p>\n

“We’re always going to need quality control,” he added. “We’re going to need a decent submission process, to get the first version of a game out, and make sure it’s solid and everyone gets a good experience. But during that period, if developers can be generating content that they know they can shoot out really quickly, on demand, well, I think the tail of that game becomes longer, the overall revenue from that game becomes higher, and everybody wins.”<\/p>\n

Senior VP of Capcom<\/a>, Christian Svensson<\/a>, also agreed, “I’m hoping for a much more fluid means of providing updates to consumers, being able to have a much more rapid turnaround in between when content is submitted and when content goes live to consumers, to provide a higher level of service to them.<\/p>\n

“I’m hoping that the networking and the processes in the future are built with that in mind. I’d like to see more server-based backends that are more under publisher-developer control, rather than being forced through systems that are bit more pre-defined by the first-party. That would enable experiences online that are not currently available in today’s console marketplace.”<\/p>\n

Source: CVG<\/a><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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