I'm always excited by what the superset of console developers create, on any hardware.
I'm hearing this and suspecting I won't be buying in to Xbox 720 or PS4 until 2014. I'm thinking, either:
- He's exaggerating, he's making a next gen game and he wants to up-sell next gen
- or he's right and that this will mean prohibitively expensive consoles, with potentially prohibitively expensive development costs for perceptively little gain.
Higher development costs, if there are any, will make everyone more risk averse. And high price of entry will mean slow adoption and further setbacks to an industry that can't take it. I expect more companies to go bust like 3D Realms, Bizzare Games, Clover Studios, Codemasters Guildford, EA Chicago/Bright Light/Japan, Factor 5, Grin, Hudson, Ensemble Studios, Ignition, Midway, Pandemic, Rockstar Vienna, SOE Denver and Seattle, Sony Liverpool, Team Bondi, Vicarious Visions California, Visceral Australia etc. and many more that I don't have the time to name.