Saber Interactive CEO Matthew Karch has joined a growing number of developers who are ready for the next console generation, stating that the boundaries of the Xbox 360 and PS3 are “creatively limiting.” Saber is currently working on the single-player portion ofHalo: Combat Evolved Anniversary.
“The next-generation of consoles will do great things,” he said, writing for CVG. “We’re limited in what we can do right now in terms of games and that comes primarily from the power of the processors. The best way to put it is it’s kind of like being given a Lego set with 100 block and a set with 1000 – you can do a lot more with the second set. You have more wiggle room and more blocks to make something big and great.
“If you can generate real dynamic crowds doing real things, you can’t do that on the current generation of consoles. If you can have liquid simulations and better cloth simulations, and instead of rigid body animations have soft body dynamics, flexible joints… think about the type of gameplay that could be created with technology as an enabler.”
It seems almost certain that new hardware announcements will come from Sony and Microsoft soon, possibly as soon as E3 2012. Developers are officially getting sick of this generation and are ready for that upgrade. Are their budgets?
Xbox 360, PS3 ‘creatively limiting’ – Halo Anniversary dev[CVG]
