Ancora commenti Gabe Newell

Eurogamer: Last week Microsoft cut the price of 360 in the UK and Sony didn’t make any changes to the pricing structure for PS3 in Europe - what do you make of the current generation of consoles so far?
Gabe Newell: The one that personally I find the most fun - this is an odd thing to say, because we don’t have any development for it - is the Wii. That’s the one I have at home. I think that their decision to invest in new input is right and sort of a jab with a stick to the rest of the industry about what makes games fun and what we should be thinking about. So I think it’s been super-impressive what they’ve done. In eight months they’ve just passed up 360 [with sales], so it seems like they’re selling them as fast as they can make them, and I think it’s going to continue to be very successful for the foreseeable future.

Eurogamer: Obviously it’s a very different sort of control system, but does it give you ideas for things you could be doing with PC products?
Gabe Newell: Yeah, it’s actually - there are sort of like false things to be worried about as a PC developer, and I sort of want to point out: where did all the graphics come from for the current generation? They’re all PC-derived graphics, and I think that’s a testament to the volumes of scale and the amount of capital investment going on in the PC space. That’s why I’m not very worried. The thing that does worry me is input, because there is no Nintendo equivalent in the way there’s an NVIDIA or ATI on graphics technology, living in the dog eat dog world of the PC space to drive all this technological innovation. There’s no equivalent on the input side. So maybe Microsoft can step up there, or Logitech - that’s where I feel, as a PC game developer, more exposed, in the fact that nobody can do anything other than mouse and keyboard and expect to be successful. I was just over there seeing the [Wii Fitness] board on Nintendo’s booth, and I’ve got input envy! There are all these cool things, but it’s been years since someone’s come to us and said ‘let’s talk about building a controller that would be better than just a mouse and keyboard for what you’re doing’. Nobody’s even trying any more. I think that’s a big exposure for us PC-focused game developers.

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