Heavy Rain director believes games should evolve through ideas, not just tech
David Cage will not join calls from the industry to rush out a new generation of game hardware.
The director of breakthrough hit Heavy Rain believes his Paris studio Quantic Dream would have few concerns developing on PlayStation 3 for another five years.
“To be honest, I’m not that interested in technology or the next generation of consoles,” Cage said in an interview with Develop.
“If we could continue with PlayStation 3 for another five years it would be fine with me,” he added.
Cage’s philosophy on next generation technologies comes from his wider viewpoint that games studios should be striving for more creative projects instead of technical advancements.
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“Are there technical things I can’t do on PS3? Honestly, no,” he claimed.
“The limitation is much more about the ideas we have”.
Yesterday the industry was given the first public glimpse of the Unreal Engine 4, the Epic Games engine that is widely seen as a progenitor for next generation of games.
Epic design director Cliff Bleszinski believes the UE4 team “has a huge responsibility to drag this industry into the next generation".
Cage’s views on the matter appear to be the polar opposite. He says it is ideas that should define new eras of games.
“When you look at the past, you realised that the technology evolved must faster than the concepts we rely on," he said.
"As an industry we have pretty much have been building the same games for fifty years, despite the platforms changing.”
The full interview with Cage can be found here
agreed! it is unfortunate that the games developed are tied simply to the business risk of making them, which makes change and great ideas suffer. But on the other hand people wanna pay less and less for anything, so we have a paradox, dont we!?
He's talking crap. The next gen needs to come soon enough as the current console hardware has been behind the PC for quite some time now and is holding development back (especially the crap architecture of the PS3). He's spouting nothing but Pro-Sony propaganda but the fact of the matter is that Sony is in terrible trouble and might not have the money for a new console generation. After the failure that is the PS3 and especially the Vita, there is nothing Sony can do about their demise.
How did that provoke you into bashing, surely you would agree if you were a gamer that you would love more varied content? Why don't you just keep upgrading a pc so you can max out your fucking re-runs of generic first person shooters of annual sports games. Sony propaganda? I pretty much think this is a good view and it wouldn't matter what developer this came from. You win the prize for stupidest response to a post ever, seriously, well done ;-)
