Gearbox Software’s FX artist Nick Peterson has, along with lots of other developers, provided a soundbite for Develop on the PlayStation 4, which was revealed a few weeks ago in New York, an event which resulted in this blabbering mess.
“It all depends on their development tools,” said Peterson. “If they get anywhere near as good as Microsoft’s development tools were for the Xbox 360, they’ll be sitting pretty. The device looks like it’s going to be very fast with that GDDR5 memory. I do wonder where the next Microsoft console will fall in the performance category.”
“Ultimately, you have to sort of cater to the lowest common denominator,” he adds, suggesting that multiplatform games will always have a base, which would be the least powerful of the two machines regardless of how much better one is over the other.
Most assume the PS4 and Xbox 720 to be fairly level in terms of raw power, though.
“Indie for PS4, now that would be interesting,” he adds. “I wonder how much of the hardware they would open up for indies? My guess is it would be something akin to what Microsoft did with XNA for the Xbox 360. It would be neat though.”
“As for the social aspect, I don’t really care about it personally. I’m sure some will, but I also wonder if it is really as big as people claim it is or will be on consoles. It seems to me most peoples’ social sphere sticks to Facebook and not much else at all.”
“PlayStation Home was a flop, the social tools for the Vita don’t seem to be used often, and honestly, I get tired of seeing and hearing 14 year old kids mouthing off at everyone when I play online.”
While it’s certainly not for everyone (me included), PlayStation Home has got a hardcore fan base that seems perfectly willing to spend money in the virtual world so perhaps calling it “a flop” is a little strong but it’s difficult to assign context to these kind of headline-grabbing soundbites.
It’s an interesting set of quotes, so go and have a read.
Tuffcub
Home is extreemly successful, you just have to look at the amount of virtual tat that goes on sale every week.
cam the man
I enjoyed the puzzles etc. they had on Home in it’s first year or so but haven’t used it for a long time so don’t know what it’s like now. Just don’t have the time to download everything and explore. Would rather spend the time I have on the games I’ve bought.
Taylor Made
Duke nukem forever
That’s all folks
Sad Panda
Can’t understand the gearbox hate? If all those that slag off Aliens and Duke Nukem had actually bought those games, they’d have outsold COD.
I actually agree with him, especially the social network crap.
FoxHoundGabe
Many people expected great things from those games (especially Duke Nukem) but one doesnt need to buy a game to see that its crap. Ok, some are just trolling, but most folks are just legitimally dissapointed, thats all.
ralahinn1
If there was no Home, I could honestly say, I would go back to gaming on my computer, or check other systems out. It is because of Home that I log into Playstation every day,and check out their products. Without Home, I wouldn’t get on as much, and I would not be mainly exclusive to sony. I know a lot of people that use Home, some have paid thousands on it.
Sevchenko
Why do people keep banging on about the PS4’s RAM? Yes, it’s GDDR5, and that’s very cool, but it is shared by the whole system, as opposed to being dedicated to the graphic card or CPU. But even if that weren’t the case, IT’S RAM! It has almost no bearing on how fast your game performs. It helps, but once you get to 8GB, faster ram isn’t going to make any sort of practical difference especially when the rest of the system specs are so unsensational.