{"id":115611,"date":"2020-07-17T17:16:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-17T17:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/366599"},"modified":"2020-07-17T17:16:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-17T17:16:00","slug":"we-believe-in-generations-playstation-argues-cross-gen-games-risk-stifling-innovation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/07\/17\/we-believe-in-generations-playstation-argues-cross-gen-games-risk-stifling-innovation\/","title":{"rendered":"‘We believe in generations:’ PlayStation argues cross-gen games risk stifling innovation"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cAs we\u2019ve said many times, with PlayStation 5 it\u2019s a brand new generation, and we believe in generations. So we want to evolve every part of the experience. \u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/big><\/p>\n

– PlayStation global marketing head Eric Lempel talks generational jumps with Geoff Keighley<\/em>.<\/em><\/p>\n

PlayStation plans to make a clear jump to the next console generation and offer many games as next-gen exclusives, an approach that\u2019s nearly opposite to how Xbox is handling the transition to the next generation but one that highlights PlayStation\u2019s focus on evolution for the PlayStation 5.<\/p>\n

As PlayStation global marketing head Eric Lempel explained to Geoff Keighley during the latest Summer Games Fest video (via IGN<\/a>), PlayStation sees a clear line between console generations as a necessity, and one that helps drive the development of innovative and unique games for the PlayStation 5.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn many cases, we can\u2019t take everybody with us from previous consoles into [a next generation experience],\u201d Lempel tells Keighley. \u201cYou need new hardware, you need new devices to experience what these developers want you to experience.\u201d<\/p>\n

That nod toward PlayStation\u2019s belief in clear generational lines seems like a slightly tongue-in-cheek comment about how Sony\u2019s next system fundamentally differs from Microsoft\u2019s upcoming Xbox Series X and its plan to release first-party titles on both the Xbox One and Xbox Series X generation for at least the next few years.<\/p>\n

Particularly for Ratchet & Clank: A Rift Apar<\/em>t developer Insomniac Games, Lempel says that the features and evolutions found in many upcoming PlayStation 5 titles is so tightly tied to the games being developed that it wouldn\u2019t be possible for PlayStation devs to offer those games for both PlayStation 5 and the current generation PlayStation 4.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you look at a game like Ratchet<\/em>, and we\u2019ve talked about a lot of different features today but as you\u2019ve mentioned we haven\u2019t mentioned SSD, that is another thing that will make the whole gaming experience different, it\u2019ll make it better, but it also allows the developers to do new things.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt isn\u2019t just about faster loading time. You take a great developer like Insomniac and they found a way to say \u2018ok look, here\u2019s a game that could only be made on PlayStation 5, on this generation, using this technology.\u2019 A lot of what you saw on the show, jumping through those different worlds instantly can\u2019t be done in most cases. It needs new hardware, it needs new power,\u201d Lempel tells Keighley. \u201cSo that\u2019s something we\u2019re looking forward to. All these things come together. You combine that with 3D audio, with the controller, ray tracing. I mean these are great experiences and these developers know how to harness every piece of those features to really bring you a unique experience. And that really speaks to what next gen is for us.\u201d<\/p>\n

When asked if it would be possible to make the same game for PlayStation 5, Lempel elaborates: \u201cIt would be a different experience. According to everything Insomniac has told us, this hardware allows them to deliver on this vision. They could not make it [on PlayStation 4]. If they did it would just be different. You would be playing a different type of game and the experience would be different.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cAs we\u2019ve said many times, with PlayStation 5 it\u2019s a brand new generation, and we believe in generations. So we want to evolve every part of the experience. \u201d – PlayStation global marketing head Eric Lempel talks generational jumps with Geoff Keighley. PlayStation plans to make a clear jump to the next console generation and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":115612,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}