Drinkbox Weighs in on the Prospect of Console Upgrades

1st May, 0 replies

In an interview with GameIndustry, Drinkbox Studios' (Tales from Space, Guacamelee!, and the recently-released Severed) founders gave their opinions on the prospect of mid-generation upgrades to consoles, amongst other things.

Interestingly they don't think it will impact their own game development (or similar developers') much at all. "For a big developer, they might not necessarily be overjoyed about it because of additional work that may have to go in to support different hardware SKUs, but as an indie developer, it's not really that big a deal", said Chris Harvey. "Our games are not exactly pushing the edge of the devices anyway. So from our perspective, there might be some additional certification stuff to make sure it works, but it's not going to fundamentally change how we develop our games for the consoles."

This disparity between its impact on indies and larger developers is probably why the likes of BioWare aren't too thrilled by the prospect of mid-generational upgrades.

Indeed, there are some clear benefits for the likes of Drinkbox, Harvey feels: "There's kind of a reset on the storefront, so if you can put out games there early, there's an opportunity there to get a lot more eyeballs... And from a business standpoint, if we can get in there early, we'd see a big benefit to that hardware reset happening every few years."

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