Valve's Gabe Newell interview.

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Originally Posted by SamuraiMoogle

Damn. So basically PS3 is such a P.O.S. to develop for, the games HAVE to be coded for it only. That then makes porting to all 3 systems impossible and if it is done it would just suck up way too much of the developers money.

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Originally Posted by John Carmack

So the console platform is going to become more important for us in the future. It’s interesting now that when we look at the xbox 360 and the PS3 and the PC platforms, we can pretty much target essentially all of them with a more or less common code base, more or less common development strategies on there, and this is I guess going to be the first public announcement of it, this will be the first development cycle for id software where we’re actually going to be internally developing on console platforms for a simultaneous, hopefully, release on there.

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Heh.

Anyway, I think a lot of what Gabe said is bullshit, even disregarding his next gen ranting. As much as I love Valve and their games, I don't think that episodic content is the way to go at all. Maybe his analogy, likening episodic content to TV and current game design to film, articulates it best. TV sucks.

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Originally Posted by sedition

ps3 is next generation's saturn... yikes!

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That's what they said about the PS2. Make that you will.

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Originally Posted by Johnny Undaunted

That's what they said about the PS2. Make that you will.

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It's to a degree with PS2, look at the difference in the graphics between something like GT4 and the average third party PS2 game. The developers that have the time and resources to tap into the PS2 can take it to another level almost on par with Xbox and Cube, wheras most PS2 games just look like trash by comparison.

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Originally Posted by Johnny Undaunted

That's what they said about the PS2. Make that you will.

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of course when you singlehandedly spearhead the "at the time" new dvd market and have one incredibly large userbase to begin with developers are more inclined to wrap their heads around something they normally wouldn't.

Don't forget backward compatibility and relentless marketing and lies along with the "we're above all this" stance Nintendo still takes which left the field open. It takes more than a complex machine to fuck up as bad as SEGA did with the Saturn. Sony had plenty of room for error last time.