PS5 and Xbox Scarlett Are More of the Same, Says Developer

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The leap from Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 to Xbox One and PS4 wasn't very innovative or revolutionary, and it doesn't look like the jump from PS4 and Xbox One to PS5 and Xbox Scarlett will be any different. According to PlatinumGames boss Atsushi Inaba, neither next-gen console is doing anything innovative or that will change how games are developed and played. Rather, they are simply more powerful machines with a few additional bells and whistles here and there. For the consumer, faster and prettier games may be exciting, but from a development perspective, "it's more of the same."

“It’s OK. And by that I mean, I’m sure that things will move faster, graphics will be better, and maybe it will be easier with less wait times… that’s good for the consumer," said Inaba when asked about the next-gen plans of Sony and Microsoft by VGC. "But it’s more of the same, quite frankly, compared to previous generations. It’s nothing that’s disruptive or super innovative, if you ask me.”

Inaba continued:

“Game hardware used to be about custom chips that you couldn’t do on PCs. Now you look at it and they’re just grabbing stuff that already exists. The Switch, for example, is a Tegra, which already existed and the other consoles are using very similar chips and graphics cards to what you see on PCs, but maybe slightly updated. None of it seems unique to that hardware anymore.”

That said, while Inaba isn't particularly excited by the PS5, Xbox Scarlett, or Nintendo Switch, there's something that has his attention: Google's Stadia and other cloud-based platforms.

"For me, things like cloud platforms represent innovation and something very, very different – they’re platforms that excite me and where I feel there is a lot more innovation happening.”

Of course, I'm sure Inaba and PlatinumGames -- the makers of titles like Bayonetta and NieR: Automata -- will continue to develop on PS5, Xbox Scarlett, and the Nintendo Switch, but it sounds like they will also be exploring the various cloud-powered platforms coming to the market.

Posted: Jun 23, 2019 11:29 am
Related Forum: Xbox Forum

Source: https://comicbook.com/gaming/2019/06/21/ps5-xbox-scarlett-playstation-developer/

Comments

TOXICPosted: Mon. Jul 08, 2019

Maybe so, but Xbox will have the better specs as it always has done and always will lol.

ZemaPosted: Tue. Jun 25, 2019

Idc if it's more of the same or not I'll still stick with Xbox till the end Xbox will always be the better system imo

RareparrotPosted: Mon. Jun 24, 2019

Anime Just to many rumors and usually Xbox out beats Sony.

I'm very confident it wont I'll even gift you if it does. PFFT. GO CALL OF DUTY

Baz_AccentsPosted: Sun. Jun 23, 2019

He just sounds like a bored man,
more of the same thats like a new toilet design coming out and a plumber saying its nothing revolutionary for us plumbers who have to install it and do the plumbing its more of the samehaha,
and also he talks about custom chips and how it isn't unique anymore because they are using chips that you can get on pc... yea they might use chips on the market but we know xbox has a "custom" cpu ryzen zen 2 chip, while the hardware might not be the most unique seen before hardware its still impressive xbox has lighting exclerated hardware that helps with ray tracing or something along the lines of that they still have awesome software too and some that we might get or we may not get for example physx would be pretty nice to have so i hope we get that.

And also both xbox and ps have amazing storage systems that are ment to change the way games are played and change how developers devlope games to some extent, so anything inaba says im just going to ignore it an believe in what i believe until the system is out for me this gen is a big leap and i feel like that dude is under selling it good thing he isn't part of a marketing team lol.

AnimePosted: Sun. Jun 23, 2019

Just to many rumors and usually Xbox out beats Sony.