oprainfall writes:
"PixelJunk Inc. is a 2D co-op soup empire building game developed by Q-Games that was playable for the first time at PAX Prime this year. You and up to three friends work together on a seemingly uninhabited planet. Together you gather resources to build a soup factory for the soup company you are both employed by. Once your factory is built you can expand it until you are able make soup and launch it into space to sustain citizens of the galaxy."
Nom Nom Galaxy is a game about soup production. No, no! Don’t leave! It’s good, I swear. It also features mining and landscaping, with a huge focus on automation and efficiency. Hmm, that isn’t really convincing, either. Let me start over.
Marcus Mac Dhonnagain sat down with Q-Games’ lead designer Rowan Parker to discuss the PixelJunk series and the new console generation
Flexibility and openness provided by PCs very exciting for development
As long as consoles continue to sell and compete with PCs, they will continue to be developed. Do I think consoles will become more like PCs? Yes, and they already are.
I think PS5 and XboxTwo(??) will have an upgrade system, and at different points in the hardware's lifespan, they will release upgrade "kits" that improve graphics, etc. That's how they'll maximize profits. Or maybe they won't do that, but to me that seems the most logical.
to a degree, we have had upgradeable/expandable consoles in the past. sega's 32x expanded the capabilities of the genesis while the N64 memory expansion upgraded the system with more internal memory for games that used it.
there was even memory expansion for the saturn for games that needed more ROM/RAM. What i believe will happen over the course of this generation will be a shift to more streaming of games.
Thus making the advent of a next gen more along the lines of client based units that get their content via direct services. All the labor being handled on the back end by a much higher powered network of systems and piped to your home over an updated (within the next 10 years) high speed infrastructure.
People can scoff at that idea now but 10 years ago the idea of using cloud assisted computing was in the works and it only got better and attainable over time.
a console upgadable??? you serious?? how long will it last? then no more argument of closed HW, code to the metal thing and " im not buying a pc cause i dont want to upgrade every year..." stuff,
since consoles went pc route, they´re doomed, crunched, stomped, etc. i dont foresee an end to consoles, instead, i see a change in appearence.
no more complex hardware, just stream games and play. itll start later this gen and maybe yess, consoles as wee see them, physically maybe nintendo, the others will jump into the cloud.
It will be all about a controller and a service live/psn/steam, hope we can mix and match "I'll take xbox controller with steam oh and can i get a coke with that?"
I said this two years ago. PC will be next. Hardware can only get so powerful, but it will get smaller.
They say this every time a new generation of consoles rolls out. No they won't guys. Get your heads outta your asses
So far sales says otherwise. Unless we saw a big failure for both Ps4 and X1. I would be glad if sony released their games on pc :P. However , I am staying with the ps4 till the end . I see better future in gaming then movies.
