Epic Games designer doesn’t want physical discs in next-gen
Epic Games’ Design Director Cliff Bleszinski suggested that he doesn’t want next-generation consoles to support discs during a Reddit.com IamA thread around Saturday.
Epic Games’ Design Director Cliff Bleszinski suggested that he doesn’t want next-generation consoles to support discs during a Reddit.com IamA thread around Saturday.
When asked by Redditor “robronie” what he wanted to see from the next-generation consoles, Bleszinski replied, “No disc based games.”
Epic Games Vice President Mark Rein suggested in a July interview with Videogamer.com that Epic Games and other developers keep close talks with Microsoft and Sony in terms of next generation technology. “Obviously we work closely with Microsoft, but we work with Sony as well. But so do all developers. In determining what the next consoles will be, I’m positive that they’re talking to lots and lots of developers and lots of middleware companies to try and shape what it is,” he said.
Rein also stated that Epic Games and other developers have been creating demos to show Microsoft and Sony how they hope the consoles could perform.
Speculation that next-gen consoles such as the next Xbox would be devoid of optical media has been a heated topic since MCVUK.com rumored that Microsoft had confirmed the next Xbox’s lack of a disc drive with business partners.
Microsoft quickly disputed the truth of this rumor. “Xbox 360 has found new ways to extend its lifecycle like introducing the world to controller-free experiences with Kinect and re-inventing the console with a new dashboard and new entertainment content partnerships. We are always thinking about what is next for our platform and how to continue to defy the lifecycle convention. Beyond that we do not comment on rumors or speculation,” it wrote to MCVUK.com.
» Source: http://www.debasedtothis.org/?p=1097
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darkhyrulelord
>: / But I like physical copies!!
IronMaster777
No i prefer a physical copy
NewGrangle
Not a surprising statement from Epic. Anything I have ever heard out of anyone there tends to relate innovation in games purely to hardware processing power (i.e. better graphics = innovation, anything else =/= innovation) or somehow trying to make consoles more like PCs with each new generation. Also not surprising, then, that they would work with Microsoft and Sony closely (companies that also do a lot of work with PCs) and snub Nintendo. Isn't Epic primarily a PC developer anyway?
Major Lampshade
I think having a physical copy is better, screw convenience! I want to be sure I can always play my games and ACTUALLY OWN them too. I like Cliffy B. and all but man is he kind of greedy....wait...hold on I can make my argument less hypocritical.
eranikusnxt
I prefer holding my game. Besides that, it's just easier to use, easier to buy because I can just run into the game store and use real cash, easier to swap consoles, and with people making all these models, that's a good thing. I don't mind having digital download games for small games, but hell, I don't want to use a huge chunk of my HDD on one game that could fit on a disk just as easily.
Fiery_Elf
I just hope they're going for flash cards instead of digital download, because digital download would make importing games a lot more trouble for me as you can't use American credit card to buy on the Japanese PSN .
Pickster
Maybe he wants a flash based medium rather than trying to cut the retail sector out.
PhantomExdeath
Typical, trying to cut the retail stores to save themselves money (obviously no savings passed on to the consumers) Heh having physical games in stores shelves help bring awareness to the game, in contrast how many people would rifle through pages upon pages of lists of available games. You'd never get the same exposure. Retail presence also brings about higher chance of people buying the product as they can be in the store for something else then happen to go by the Game section and maybe buy something. How's that gonna happen with a digital only distribution?
Stupid idea all around...
Zanon
Dumb idea so in other words we wouldn't really own our game. I see it like this, say others follow with this idea, then I start installing games, then lets say my HDR gets full, then lets say my hard drive gets corrupted and a earthquake happens over seas or where the download hub is losing all data because some damage happen, then losing my data along with that and then companies say they have no record.
I seen a MMO vanish just because some dumb idiot deleted the game file on the main pc, so my thought could come true, thats exactly why I want a physical copy in my hand so that way if something ever happen that way I had the game. Also to us not owning game like I said, well its actually true, cause if your service ever shut down and then your servers went under and my hard drive corrupted then what?
metalmonster13
This man comes up with stupid shit to say on a weekly basis.