Xbox-hövdingen Phil Spencer har sannerligen varit rubrikernas man de senaste dagarna då han under E3-mässan bland annat berättade att han hellre jämförde Playstation 4 Pro med Xbox One S, och helst inte i samma mening med nyannonserade Xbox One X. Spencer menade nämligen att kraften i One X var alldeles för stor för det skulle vara rimligt att ställa den bredvid Sonys Pro-enhet.
"I look at [PS4] Pro as more of a competitor to [Xbox One] S than I do to Xbox One X. This is a true 4K console. If you just look at the specs of what this box is, it's in a different league than any other console that's out there."
Nu har Sony-chefen Jim Ryan svarat på Spencers uttalande via sidan Eurogamer och den gode Ryan verkar inte vara alltför orolig över att framtida spel kommer se sämre ut till Playstation-formatet.
"I'm not going to go into the detail of what's embedded into individual contracts with publishing partners. What I would do is cast our minds back to the PS3 generation, where we had on paper more impressive specifications than our competition, and in some areas by quite a considerable margin. Now, that didn't play out the way we had anticipated it would - and this is nothing to do with co-marketing deals, this is just general developer and publisher dynamics. What happened was that developers, maybe at the behest of publishers, developed up to the lowest common denominator and stopped there. And in very few cases took advantage of the additional horsepower of the PS3.
Ryan förtydligade även att spelutvecklare vill vara tidseffektiva när det kommer till att släppa sina spel till flera format och de undviker gärna mer arbete än vad nöden kräver.
"Now, I'm a big believer of learning lessons from history. History doesn't always repeat itself. But if you're a publisher of video games, that is a perfectly commercially rational approach for you to take. Because you only do one set of work. You don't do one set of work to get up to one level and then a different amount of work and consequently may need to go further."
Ryan poängterade även att Sony aldrig skulle försöka få utvecklare att medvetet göra vissa titlar fulare till en konkurrents format för att på så sätt stärka sig själva, och han avslutande med att svara på frågan om hur han ser på hur Xbox One X kan komma påverka Sony i framtiden:
"Well, we'll see when they launch in six months' time...There will be hundreds of games published this year and those games, market forces will prevail. If a developer or publisher wants to take advantage of the supposed power of the X, they will do that. If they don't, they won't."
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