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David Jaffe Wants a Single Console Future
by Aaron Linde, Jan 11, 2008 9:16am PSTOutspoken God of War and Twisted Metal creator David Jaffe (pictured left) is the latest industry figure to show support of a single console model for the gaming industry.
"We have [an industry standard] with DVD, we had it with VHS," argues Jaffe. "Sure, you miss out on a cool feature here, a neat feature there. But weÂ’ve gotten used to this in so many other hardware products and—in doing so—reaped the many more benefits of a single system."
In a direct response to a counterpoint issued by Game|Life, Jaffe concedes his belief that "80% of the game innovation I care about comes via design, not tech."
Jaffe's suggestion that the industry move towards a single console hardware scheme settles him among other proponents of the model, including Denis Dyack and John Romero. Advocates of the model argue that a movement towards a single console would ease development and resolve fragmentation of the current console market.
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the console would be built, all developers could focus on a single engine/architecture and actually have the potential to master it, rather then just put out copy/paste games every other month because they don't have time to figure shit out between 3 ports.
naturally the 3 would work on a new console every 5-8 years or whatever the market warranted. single spec, single console, not core crap, not premium crap, not elite crap, not pushing blu-ray or hd-dvd against each other, not having to choose between 256 megs of ram and hdmi and all that crap, one solid design (to rule them all ;).
MS/Sony/Nintendo make the bulk of their money through software licensing, not selling the shitty consoles themselves, they don't want to build the crap anymore than we want to have to pick between them every couple of years, they just want to sell software/licenses. being owners of the "ONE", they'd split licensing profits equally and be happy, developers would focus on one thing and be happy as they'd learn a single architecture and reach 3 times the potential audience. gamers would be happy because they'd only have to buy ONE console instead of 3 to get access to ALL the great games.
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