Gabe Newell: Xbox 720 and PS4 must embrace innovation
The console market of late hasn’t been open to new ideas, Newell lamented – and he asked the leading console manufacturers to consider this in the next generation.
“It’s not the games that are out there today, it’s the games that we [...] haven’t even thought of yet that are gonna end up being important,” he said, speaking in a huge interview with Penny Arcade.
“I would push them very hard to stop thinking of themselves as being a platform for everything that already exists and start betting on the inventiveness and the benefits that you would get by embracing a more open approach to the internet and game delivery and game business models and things like that.”
Newell praised the games industry for moving at a faster pace of innovation than the world of cinema, but said he found it difficult to accept the rigid rules that each area of gaming appears to stick to.
“You know, we still don’t have World of Warcraft on consoles and as a World of Warcraft player and as a console owner I find that super frustrating,” he said.
“I think the same thing happened in the past with a lot of hardware innovations. Nvidia and AMD existed in the PC space and that’s why they end up, you know, rather than internally developed proprietary graphics solutions on the consoles, they’re all gone,” he added. “Everything in the console space is coming from the PC now.
“I think that we really need to see the same thing in terms of just general attitudes about platforms and that whichever console vendor sort of embraces that, I think they’ll see huge benefits.”
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BlakeaphobiaPosted:
I think it'd be really cool if they would allow you to eventually add better graphics cards to the system like you can do with PC. that way consoles could stay up to date with next gen graphics improvements. If you can't afford an upgrade, no problem, just play on lower graphics (which would probably still be excellent) till you can afford it.
Codster333Posted:
I have so much respect for this guy but They chose the worst picture I can't look at it without cracking up especially since I read the Peter Griffen comment. Ahahaha ah
"Poor Guy."
"Poor Guy."
SanityPosted:
Consololololol.Thats all i need to say,this man basically runs PC gaming,and look at use we have had 10x the amount of power of the 360 before the 360 was out GoML?
OasisPosted:
Gabe Newell: Embrace the use of slim fast.
Surely there was a better stock photo than this, poor guy.
Surely there was a better stock photo than this, poor guy.
TheMightyHutchPosted:
Tyler-Brough123 its peter griffin
A Gabe Newell Fat joke a day keeps Half-Life 3 away
XxModioxModzxXPosted:
This better be the last xbox coming out, swear to god its gonna be a pain in the neck buying this new one, if more comes out, im shooting my xbox's and eating whats left, then probablly die from internal bleeding....but it will be worth it....
MuzzzyPosted:
that guy is fit. I hope the xbox 720 is beast or else I aint buying. Sometimes you can go too far with how something looks and too much technology can be put in so it might be crap...
-Robin-Posted:
I don't care, i just want my PS4 and 720,I guess he somewhat has a point but im sure they wont care either. their still making millions...
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