Som redan känt utannonserade Microsoft Project Scorpio med dunder och brak under årets E3-mässa. Detta medan Sony valde att inte säga ett knyst om deras Neo, utan istället lär vi få se en uppvisning av den omtalade superburken senare i år. I vilket fall har Gamesindustry tagit sig ett snack med ett par höjdare från EA, Ubisoft och Take-Two som samtliga hyllar Microsofts och Sonys kommande projekt. Laura Miele (Global publishing chief) från EA menade på stor fördel hos spelare likväl utvecklare att de redan existerande konsolerna får samleva med nyskapelserna:
"The idea that we would potentially not have an end of cycle and a beginning of cycle I think is a positive place for our industry to be and for all of the commercial partners as well as players."
"So it's not my perception that the hardware manufacturers are going to be forcing upgrades. I really see that they're trying to hold on and bring players along. If players want to upgrade, they can. There will be benefit to that. But it's not going to be punitive if they hold on to the older hardware... So we're thrilled with these announcements."
Alain Corre från Ubisoft var inne på samma sak, och lade till fördelen kring att som utvecklare slippa göra två olika spel till två generationer av konsoler:
"The beautiful thing is it will not split the communities. And I think it's important that when you've been playing a game for a lot of years and invested a lot of time that you can carry on without having to start over completely again. I think with the evolution of technology it's better than what we had to do before, doing a game for next-gen and a different game from scratch for the former hardware. Now we can take the best of the next console but still have super good quality for the current console, without breaking the community up."
Den lika positiva Strauss Zelnick från Take-Two såg också ljusglimtar i att låta samma version av ett spel upplevas på ett härligt sätt, trots hårdvaruskillnaderna:
"The same way that when you make a television show you don't ask yourself, 'What monitor is this going to play on?' It could play on a 1964 color television or it could play on a brand-new 4K television, but you're still going to make a good television show."
Delar du samma uppfattning, eller ser du några nackdelar med uppgraderade konsoler?
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