Natuurlijk ligt de focus van de gamers momenteel op de PlayStation 4 en Xbox One. Volgens John Carmack is dit gevaarlijk. De oprichter van Id Software en manager bij Oculus Rift geeft aan dat er nog genoeg te doen is met de PlayStation 3 en Xbox 360. Volgens de man worstelt hij steeds met de keuze of hij games moet ontwikkelen voor de huidige of nieuwe generatie. Volgens hem is het een lastige situatie wanneer iedereen zich op het nieuwe richt terwijl het oude nog niet afgeschreven is.
There’s so much you can still do on the previous console generation. The 360 and PS3 are far from tapped out in terms of what a developer could do with them, but the whole world’s gonna move over towards next-gen and high-end PCs and all these other things. Part of me still frets a little bit about that, where just as you fully understand a previous generation, you have to put it away to kind of surf forward on the tidal wave of technology that’s always moving.
Although I keep making new arguments where now we can say that we’re past the knee of the cost-benefit curve in terms of what we get with graphics, and people are saying that with the next-gen consoles, that okay, they look better but they don’t look nearly as much better as the previous generation. So does that mean people will stay happier with the current things? And I could make that argument with a straight face and play for it, but it’s probably going to be wrong.
