Ubisoft is Already Itching for the PS5

[Strazdas]

So basically Ubisoft want consoles to become PCs. yeah i can get behind that.

Yeah, no thanks to all you PC enthusiasts. I don't feel like going back to PC gaming in the same way that I don't feel like going back to the bowling alley to be punched in the stomach every night.

I've never had more aggravation when trying to play a game than when I was primarily playing on PC.

When someone builds an operating system + hardware that just works when you put a game in it - with no need to fiddle around getting new drivers, replacing shoddy parts, etc. Then maybe PC gaming will come back as a major platform. Till then, I'll play my no-hassle Playstation and Xbox.

When did you stopped being a PC gamer? 1990?
I havent had to update my PCs drivers or operating system in over 1 year now and it still runs without any problems. i get a game, i insert a disc, it instals and bam i can run it. not that different from consoles, except that i can do cool stuff like mods. In my history if over 15 years of PC gaming i have once had a bad part which the insurance (that is enforced for 2 years by law to any sale here) replaced within a week. all i had to do is call them up, they sent a courier to pick it up and deliver it back. PC is less hassle than consoles nowadays. well maybe that is about to change with increased use of DRM that sometimes fail (yes im looking at you ubisoft) but that is still to be seen.

 

[FalloutJack]

Apparently, Ubisoft has a hotline to the Doctor in his TARDIS, which is funny 'cause he actually prefers the Wii.

 

[Adam Jensen_v1legacy]

And I'm hoping this gen lasts even longer than the last one.

 

[Evil Smurf]

I'm itching for non intrusive DRM and creative games ubisoft. Make them and the people will come.

 

[infinity_turtles]

Makes sense that new consoles help creativity, but I don't think it's for the reason he's claiming. New consoles have fewer games, so chances are first adopters are going to be picking up a lot of new IPs, making them a lot less risky.

 

[anian]

Interesting that he mention that a new console cycle improves creativity, yet he misses the point that new consoles cost more to develop for. Costs which stifle creativity. Because a higher cost means greater risk, publishers are more likely to play it safe, which results in truly creative games often being passed over for whatever seems popular at the time.

He doesn't care about creativity. Actually I think he knows pretty well that higher graphics cost more to develop - but such a thing for Ubisoft is brilliant, because they have the resources while other smaller companies don't. That's a more likely reason they want even more.

 

[Zombie_Moogle]

"No we don't want to wait seven years for the next one," Guillemot said, referring to the PlayStation 3's above-average lifespan. "The consoles have taken a long time, we've been saying it for a long time. It's really once those consoles come that we can let creative people [take] more risk, and they feel they can take more risk because new consoles can be more open."

Let's keep a close eye on Ubisoft & hold them to this statement. We better get something good from them when the PS4 drops

 

[MrBaskerville]

It´s like with writers, their creativity stagnates if they keep the same typewriter for more than 5 years, they have to buy new typewriters all the time unless they want to repeat the same story over and over again. It makes so much sense!

Defineately also a problem in the movie industry, directors runs out of ideas when they don´t have new things to play with. Just look at the time before sound, every movie was the same, until they finally got sound, but then there were years with the same crap until they finally got color, and then creativity hit rockbottom until 3D and now shaking seats reinvogarated the business. You can´t be creative without new toys!

 

[Falseprophet]

Well, seeing as this console generation is now just dedicated PCs with a walled-garden OS and DLC/cloud-based ecosystem, nothing's really stopping anyone from putting out new "consoles" every year if they wanted to. Not necessarily a profitable strategy, but surely the hardware R&D cycle is a lot faster if everyone's just using off-the-rack components anyway.

 

[Hairless Mammoth]

Whoa, whoa, whoa! Slow down buddy. You're like that guy that starts seeing another girl before breaking up with his girlfriend. This generation hasn't really kicked off yet thanks to the Wii on U being a gen behind (again!) and producers like you forgetting there is an always advancing game machine, known in some circles as the PC, that you could start developing a game for before the next console generation and just port that to the console of your choosing. Just don't go overboard with the graphics and porting will be much easier.

Or, you could stop releasing yearly franchise updates. Start letting creative ideas come to life on a current system instead of holding back all but top tier money makers so they can have "Bettah Graffisks". Then letting the studio tank or release a crap game because they don't have enough artists or programers to do it right with new, advanced tech with the tight deadlines and executive meddling you give them. This goes to Bobby Kotick, John Richtewhateverhisnameis and Sega too.

 

[Deacon Cole]

This is like those awful ads for the PlayStation 9 when the PlayStation 2 was current.


New console coming out? I can't wait for the next one.

Bah!

 

[mysecondlife]

Ubisoft is Already Itching for the PS5


The head honcho at Ubisoft doesn't want to wait another seven years.

Stupid title of an article. So I'll make my own.

"Ubisoft wants shorter console cycle"

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My response to Ubisoft: Yeah whatever. Try to make Assassin's creed actually FUN if its going to be annual release.

 

[Hyakunin Isshu]

God, I hate you people. You all talk as if the PS3 is the best place for new ideas. It isn't.

Ubisoft is right. The PS3, at the very least, can't have RTS games on it.

In the next-gen, we are going to see more games like red faction guerrilla, and From Dust. But you people can't see that, and that's so sad.