…I say “lol”.
MCV had an interview with the publishing house for their 25th anniversary. Which basically the conversation went down the the simple fact that at the end of a generation, no one wants to make any games- and they are quite sparked out. When a new console comes out, they get that spark back and make some awesome creative games.
Well at first I thought it was a quite mundane and horrible way to look at it. But then I thought deeper, and saw there is a little bit of logic to their madness.
You see at the end of a generation is usually when projects slow down, and those which don’t end up been ported over to the next generation for some fast cash. When a new console comes out, people are excited, especially in resent years when we have seen with each generation- especially from people like Nintendo, more crazy ideas for gaming. Such as motion, touch controls, and 3D.
These new types of control and immersion, lead to new ideas on how games and relate to them. They make people think again, and the change over to them, is quite good for the industry. In that if allows people to have a fresh new perspective.
However to say this change is needed for new ideas, is a bit backwards, a cop out if you will. A quick way to say “we can’t see how to change the world we normally see anymore”, but “hey there are some new consoles coming out- which force us to change it”.