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Paul Wedgwood on bringing PC-level depth to consoles |
Listed in: PS3, Xbox 360 Tags: Counter-Strike, Quake
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Paul Wedgwood is known for his proficiency with PC gaming, but now he wants to bring that skill into console gaming. While PC gaming fans would insist that theirs is the better platform, Wedgwood believes in the future of consoles.To Paul Wedgwood, it would be his personal mission, rather than a profitable strategy, to accomplish such a task. "We're at that moment where the PC, PS3, and 360 are aligned in power for the first time in a really long time," he said. "We can focus on developing technology where we only have to create maps once, a character once, and have them work for all three platforms."
About the biggest challenge to merge the PC and consoles, he says, is merely the control interface. Imagine trying to micro-manage on a PS3 controller. Right now, Wedgwood sees increasing similarity between consoles and the PC.
Arguably, and this is not to dismiss what people have achieved in the past, but Halo 3 multiplayer is really Quake 3 from 1999. Even Call of Duty 4 (PS3, Xbox 360) is just Counter-Strike on the PC from 2001. So there's an amazing amount of depth that could be present on consoles.
With the kind of power that consoles have right now, Paul Wedgwood isn't far from his goal. The intent is both revolutionary and profitable, and I hope to see the titles that he'll be producing. More on the interview in the source link.
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In two years, the pc hardware will be so strong, that he'll forget his dreams of doing one product working on all platforms.
But why does he want to bring the pc games to consoles? I like exclusive games *hehe
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the fact is, devleopers tend to create their own format, so maps can be interchangable, just setup/installing would be different
1 thing that consoles have over pcs, is the only hacks will be hardware, fairly little can be done, (software hack get banned from psn/live), things like turbo etc would be th eonly problem, not much when compared to PC CHEATS, so this is the only reason why i buy consoles, (also i prefer to have gaming seperate from the computer, having to boot up into windows can be a pain)
anyway maps can be designed on pc, or keyboard with ps3, so really developers are only to blame (sony aswell)
the only problem with interchangable maps would be, if one consoles version is dramtically different, for exampl ps3 to wii, well can you imagine running ps3 games on the wii, i cant
but this could be easily done, by limiting polygons, through an automatic process
ALL IN ALL THERES NO PRACTICAL REASON WHY THIS ISNT ALREADY BEING DONE
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what a friggin looney
Halo3 and COD4 are masterpieces that have surpassed (content and presentation) a huge proportion of all games available when they were respectively released. the amazing amount of depth is already available on consoles. maybe if we all stick our faces off of our puny laptop screens we could see it clearly.
and here's my favourite part:
"About the biggest challenge to merge the PC and consoles, he says, is merely the control interface"
oh my goooooooooooooo oooooooooooood
somebody kill me for crying out loud
how about u throw in a keyboard with the console game... would that not solve it for an extra 15-20$, no useless long speeches, and no head-aches?
right...
some people have the wind blowin so far up their stinky tube it starts affecting their brains.
yukh
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you know what else i have on my consoles that's not available on a pc?? the freedom to choose NO operating system as the oh so annoying and ressource burning windows (whichever it is, just pick ur fave) or user unfriendly yet so cool (whatever) mac.
consoles make less noise, use less power, cost less, perform better for gaming, bring breakthrough technological advancements... u get the idea
gamers go for consoles
spoiled brats with money to burn go for PCs and claim they're just as good as a console
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With the PC on the other hand if you got the best possible build at the beggining of this generation it would be seriously lagging with the best new games three years later.
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Fact remains hes fully true about halo and CoD4 its really just new graphics on old tech. IMO FPS are just getting repetative and lame.
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True, mouses are better than analogue sticks (for aiming), but analogue sticks are better than keyboards (for movement).
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