Sony revealed the PS4 at an event in New York last month and it
managed to impress a lot of industry people. Linus Blomberg, CTO and
Co-founder of Avalanche Studios, is one of them.
He told us that due to the competition from mobile platforms, and due
to the fact that PCs have overtaken consoles by a large amount when it
comes to performance, a new console cycle was needed desperately.
“It’s always very exciting with a new console cycle, for a
number of reasons,” he said. “The consoles desperately need a boost
since having been overtaken in terms of performance by PC’s several
years ago, and also losing market share to mobile platforms.
He also revealed that the PS4 will accomplish a lot of things due to
the business model behind it and will open up new opportunities.
“The PS4 will not only be a very powerful gaming machine from a
hardware perspective, but it will also be a social tool and integrated
marketplace more akin to the successful mobile devices. It’s the best of
all worlds in a way; great performance for demanding high-end gaming,
good social ecosystem and connectivity, and integrated business
marketplace. For Avalanche Studios as an open-world games developer this
is super exciting and opens up many new opportunities.
“It’s a perfect fit for the types of games we do, and we are
confident that we’ll bring open-world gaming to a whole new level
because of it. I’m glad Sony decided to go with 8gb RAM because it means
that the PS4 will out-power most PC’s for years to come.
“The off-the-shelf philosophy behind the architecture makes sense
from a pricing and heating point of view, but it also means that Sony
more easily can make incremental improvements of their system. If that’s
actually their plan I don’t know, but it could help preventing the
inevitable loss of market shares that the long console cycles entails.”
We also talked to the founder of Avalanche Studios and he told us that AionGuard was still in development at the studio, and his views on piracy are something inspiring as well.
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